Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings
Chicken and dumplings are even more delicious when they simmer all day in the slow cooker. Try this easy recipe for slow cooker chicken and dumplings!
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Why we love this recipe 🥰
Chicken and dumplings…just the thought of it brings to mind a plate full of the very best comfort food.
And the only thing better than a plate of tender chicken with carrots and celery and fragrant herbed broth and hearty warm dumplings is all that stuff cooked with no muss and no fuss in your trusty slow cooker.
It’s the perfect storm of comfort food meets convenience meets delicious!
Ingredients you need 🍗
For the chicken part…
…and for the dumpling part!
Ingredient notes and substitutions
- Chicken: We like chicken breasts for this recipe, but you can swap in boneless chicken thighs if you prefer. Or use a combo!
- Poultry Seasoning: Look for this spice mixture in (yep!) the spice aisle of your supermarket.
- Chicken Broth: As always, we recommend the kind in the box for the freshest flavor, but whatever kind you have on hand will work.
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities and nutritional information.
How to make this recipe 👩🏻🍳
STEP 1: Add some chopped onions, celery, and carrots to your slow cooker, sprinkle them with flour and poultry seasoning, and stir until they are nice and coated.
STEP 2: Stir in a little wine and one cup of chicken broth.
STEP 3: Add some boneless skinless chicken breasts, nestle them into the vegetables and broth, cover your slow cooker and cook it on low for 6 hours. No peeking!
STEP 4: After six hours, scoop the chicken out and put it on a cutting board. Shred it into bite-size pieces. (Keep your slow cooker covered and on while you are shredding the chicken.)
STEP 5: Mix up some flour, salt and baking powder in a mixing bowl. Stirring some milk and melted butter until you have a nice sticky dough.
STEP 6: Drop 1/4 cup amounts of dumpling dough around the edges of the slow cooker. You should have about eight dumplings. Cover your slow cooker back up and continue cooking on low for another hour.
When you come back, your dumplings will be cooked through and gorgeous – now scoop up ladlefuls of the chicken and veggies and rich sauce, and make sure everyone gets at least one dumpling.
These dumplings are hearty and dense and we highly recommend smooshing them into the sauce once they are on your plate. 😋
Recipe FAQs 🧐
You can! Just make sure they are boneless and you are all set.
Poultry seasoning is a combo of ground thyme, sage, marjoram and sometimes a little black pepper. It gives that little something extra to chicken dishes (and I also sometimes use it on fish). You can find it in the spice aisle. I always have some in my spice drawer, but if you don’t have any on hand, you can combine dried sage (that spice is essential to poultry seasoning) with any of those others above and you will be just fine.
You can! Just add an equal amount of chicken broth.
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Equipment we used for this recipe 🥣
These are some of my favorite kitchen tools! These are Amazon affiliate links, which means I get a little something if you buy through my links at no extra cost to you. (Which helps pay for all that bacon I keep buying! 😄) And I only share things I use and love. I’m so grateful for your support!
- Measuring Cup: We love these angled cups that show the measurements on both the inside and outside of the cup.
- Cutting Board: These sturdy, dishwasher-safe cutting boards come in all different sizes.
- Ladle: We love this perfectly shaped one for scooping out soup or stew.
- Measuring Spoons: These handy magnetic spoons are not on a ring, so you can just pick the one you need.
- Pyrex Mixing Bowls: These classic sturdy bowls come in all different sizes and are great for everything from mixing ingredients to being casual serving bowls.
- Slow Cooker: We love this sturdy and reliable cooker for so many soups and stews!
- Vegetable Peeler: This is our go-to peeler for potatoes, sweet and otherwise.
Want to round out your meal? 🍽️
Honestly, one of the great things about this recipe is that it is a full meal all by itself, what with the chicken and the veggies and the dumplings! But we still need dessert, and these mini apple pies are just the ticket!
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I like to serve this in warmed soup plates with James Taylor music playing in the background. James Taylor + chicken and dumplings = One Perfect Supper. Happy chicken and dumplings!
We want to know what you think! 🤔
If you try this recipe, we would love to hear how it came out for you! I’d be super grateful if you could leave a star rating (you pick how many stars! 🌟 ) and your thoughts in the Comments section right below the recipe card.
Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings
Chicken and dumplings are even more delicious when they simmer all day in the slow cooker. Try this easy recipe for slow cooker chicken and dumplings!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 6 hours
- Total Time: 6 hours 20 minutes
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Slow Cooker
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 1 sweet onion, peeled and chopped
- 4 celery stalks, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 4 carrots, peeled and cut into one inch pieces
- 2 teaspoons poultry seasoning
- 1/4 cup flour
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Dumplings
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 cup milk
- 4 tablespoons melted butter
Instructions
- Add onions, celery and carrots to your slow cooker. Sprinkle with ¼ cup of flour and poultry seasoning and stir until coated.
- Stir in wine and one cup of the broth and stir until everything is mixed up.
- Add the chicken and remaining broth, give it all a stir, cover and cook on low setting for 6 hours.
- After six hours, remove chicken from cooker and shred into bite sized pieces with two forks. Return chicken to cooker and stir.
- Make dumplings by mixing dry ingredients together in medium mixing bowl. Stir in milk and butter until combined. Drop 1/4 cup amounts of dumpling dough around the edges of the slow cooker (you should have about 8 dumplings) and cover. Continue cooking on low for another hour.
- Serve in soup plates and enjoy!
Notes
- Chicken: We like chicken breasts for this recipe, but you can swap in boneless chicken thighs if you prefer. Or use a combo!
- Poultry Seasoning: Look for this spice mixture in (yep!) the spice aisle of your supermarket.
- Chicken Broth: As always, we recommend the kind in the box for the freshest flavor, but whatever kind you have on hand will work.
Hi Kate, I wanted to cook comfort food on this election day. Still waiting on results of presidential race but this recipe is the clear winner!!!
Hi Donna and I feel exactly the same – we are having pasta! Fingers crossed that we both feel comforted and thank you for this sweet note!
Probably the best chicken in a crock pot recipe I’ve made. The preparation of ingredients before cooking is a gamechanger! No change to anything (except I cheat and use Bisquick biscuits!)
Lalee – you made my day! So glad you liked this one (and Bisquick biscuits are NEVER a cheat!) :)
I just found your website, and….I want to cook everything i see today! =) I’ve got the chicken barley soup in the cooker at home right now!
I’m so glad! Hope you come back often!
oh trust me…i plan to! I love this blog already and have shared it with my friends and family. thank you so much for sharing your cooking expertise! and the photos are all wonderful too!
Thank you so much – you made my day!
Pinned this a couple years ago! Finally making it this morning. Can’t wait to eat. :)
Oh yay!! Hope you love it! :)
Have made this twice in the last 3 weeks…it’s is sooooooo good!
We KNOW we have a hit on our hands when we go into repeats, right? Glad you like it! :)
IT’S DELISH!!! Followed everything sans the wine.
Delish is definitely the word. Yay!
Wonderful recipe! Live in New Mexico so added Fresh Hatch green chili. We all enjoyed dinner with some crusty bread. Yum!
That sounds like a terrific variation! Glad you liked it. :)
Fantastic idea thanks. Made it yesterday for my kids and it went down a treat. Only addition I made was some lightly roasted pumpkin seeds sprinkled over the top. My family love these and they’re so good for them.
I love this idea – adds a little nice crunch, too!
Just copied the recipe and put ingredients on my shopping list – it will be dinner sometimes next week- love chicken and dumplings and anxious to try it using the slow cooker. Thanks for sharing.
Hurray! Happy chicken and dumplings.
These look and sound so wonderful. My family is going to have to try this very soon! Thanks for all your inspiration!
My pleasure and I hope they love it! :)
Superb looking, but try to make the dumplings with a mixture of cornmeal and flour. It’s my favorite way to do dumplings now. Would also fit right in with the southern influence in your house!
Okay, I’m up for that! Thanks! :)
I’m always amazed by just how many things slow cookers can make…dumplings are on my “REALLY?!?” list. :)
Really, truly, really. Really!
Oh my goodness gracious, Kate! This looks amazing. My slow cooker and I are the very best of friends and I really think this needs to happen soon at my house! xoxo
Aren’t slow cookers the best?? Mine never gets put away. :)
We eat this over white rice and forgo the dumplings and it’s super yummy. Other times I’ll just pop a can of biscuits. Not as good but quick. I love this recipe.
Chicken and rice – one of my favorite comfort foods and yes! the perfect alternative to biscuits and dumplings. :)