Recipe of Ultimate Chicken stew & dumplings

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This Chicken Stew is a one pot dinner that's easy enough for midweek and a firm favourite with all! Chicken Stew - with crispy skin! Anyone else here not a fan of slimy chicken skin?? Chicken stews are just about the most comforting comfort foods out there.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken stew & dumplings using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken stew & dumplings:

1. Get 2 tbsp olive oil
2. Make ready 8 skinless / boneless chicken thighs
3. Get 100 grams bacon or ham diced
4. Prepare 1 onion, chopped
5. Prepare 2 leeks thinly sliced
6. Prepare 2 tbsp plain flour
7. Get 100 ml white wine or cider
8. Take 500 ml chicken stock
9. Make ready 100 grams peas, frozen or fresh
10. Take 100 grams sundried tomatoes, chopped
11. Make ready 3 tbsp green pesto
12. Prepare 1 bay leaf
13. Take Dumplings:
14. Prepare 175 grams self raising flour
15. Prepare 75 grams butter
16. Prepare 50 grams grated parmesan cheese

Warm up with a hearty bowl of chicken stew packed with tender chunks of chicken and savory veggies. This Chicken Stew is the perfect meal on a cold day. Hearty, thick, and delicious, you'll love sitting down to a bowl of this stew. Chicken Stew is just what you need to cozy up to after a long day!

Instructions to make Chicken stew & dumplings:

1. Heat oil in ovenproof pan or dish, fry chicken until golden,turning as neccesary, remove from pan
2. Lower heat, Place bacon/ ham in pan and fry for a couple of minutes, add onion and leeks, cook until soft, without browning.
3. Add plain flour and stir, cook for two minutes,without browning, stir constantly
4. Slowly add the wine, or cider still stirring, stir in stock, season. Allow to thicken.
5. Replace chicken, add bayleaf, reduce heat, put on lid simmer for 45 minutes, stir occasionally.
6. Meanwhile heat oven to 200C.
7. Add pesto, peas and tomatoes.
8. Make dumplings, rub butter & self raising flour together until it looks like breadcrumbs, add cheese and lightly stir in 80 ml cold water to form a soft dough. You can add ground black pepper or pinch of grated nutmeg at breadcrumb stage. No need for salt as cheese is salty enough!
9. Divide in to 8 pieces and roll into balls, dip tops into pine nuts then place on top of stew. Sprinkle any leftover pine nuts on top.
10. Place in oven for 25-30 minutes until dumplings are nicely golden and cooked.
11. Serve with vegetable of choice (creamed potato goes well) Enjoy

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