Weekend Recipe Project: Remade Chicken and Dumplings sans Dumplings

Tonight we are having our church small group over for dinner.  We meet every two weeks and its our turn to host.  Its  a potluck and we provide the entree.  I really wanted to make crock pot chicken and dumplings so that's what we are having.  There is also 1 gal who is on IP and 1 who is watching her carbs so I decided it was the perfect time to try and remake my absolute favorite crock pot chicken and dumpling recipe.

The original recipe can be found at  BubbleCrumb.com  (why in my head I always call it crumbly pot I don't know.  But if you ever hear me talk about crumbly pot then you know its bubblecrumb.com  unless there really is a crumbly pot.  Then I'm just screwed :/)

The ingredients list is small which is something else I like about the original recipe.  Here's what you need:

Yep that's it!

This was my first adaptation of a regular recipe but it was pretty easy.  I swapped leeks for onions (although since the onions weren't sauteed and thus wouldn't caramelize I'm thinking they would have been OK.  I didn't have a chance to check that with Lindsay so decided to err on the side of caution and just use leeks.)

The cream of chicken soup was going to be the hard thing to replace but then I found out my first week that IP chicken soup is cream of chicken soup ... and as a bonus its really good ... problem solved:)

I had to play around with the amount of liquid to add to the IP soup mix so that it would have the condensed soup consistency.  Four ounces seemed to do the trick so that's what I went with.  I also used low sodium chicken broth to make the soup instead of water ... extra broth-y goodness can't be wrong now can it :)

The directions are really easy ... layer everything in the crock pot in the order that its listed in the ingredients list.  Cook on high for 4-6 hours.  And voila ...done.  Crock pot chicken and ... gravy.  Yes that's what we'll call it.  Chicken and gravy :)

It turned out pretty good.  The gravy thickened up as it cooled so it was really more soup/stoup than gravy but every one thought it tasted great.  I adjusted the broth down below.  You might need more but it just depends on how big your crock pot is.  You'll need to pour in enough to just cover the chicken

One other thing to note, if you use chicken tenders check it at about the 4 hour mark.  I let it go and the meat so so tender it just fell apart instead of shredding, which also lent itself to the soup feel.

Ingredients:
1.5 lbs skinless boneless chicken breasts
2 T olive or grape seed oil
3 packets Ideal Protein Chicken Soup
16 oz chicken broth (plus additional if needed)
2 leeks diced
1 Tbsp parsley

Directions:
Layer chicken at the bottom of a crock pot.  Drizzle oil over chicken.  Mix up the IP soup mix one packet at a time in a shaker bottle using 4 oz. chicken broth instead of water and pour over chicken.  Pour in remaining broth.  Add more broth as needed to make sure it just covers the chicken.  Scatter diced leeks over the top.  Sprinkle with parsley.

Cook on high for 4-6 hours or on low for 6-8 hours.  After cooking time is done, shred chicken in the crock pot using a fork.  Serve, eat, enjoy!

Serves: 3