Chicken Casserole Recipe

Suet Dumplings

This is a really nice recipe for a chicken casserole with an old fashioned favourite, suet dumplings.

Casserole Ingredients

olive oil for frying

3 large chicken breasts(cut into chunks) or (8 chicken thighs )

2 tablespoons of plain flour

3 carrots peeled and sliced

3 leeks washed and sliced

1 turnip peeled and diced

1 teaspoon of dried thyme( or mixed herbs)

1 can of Guinness or 1/3 pint Madeira or port

1 pint of chicken stock homemade or from a stock cube

Any fresh herbs as a garnish when serving

salt and pepper

Method

Prepare all the vegetables

Put the flour into a plastic bag

Put the chicken into the plastic bag with the flour and toss until well covered with flour

Heat the olive oil in a frying pan on a medium heat.

Fry the chicken in batches until golden brown and place into a casserole dish

Let the frying pan cool

Put all the vegetables, herbs and salt and pepper into the casserole

Add some chicken stock to the frying pan so it deglazes the pan and collects all the tasty juices.

Add this to the casserole.

Add the Guinness,Madeira or port to the casserole.

Add more stock so it comes to the top of the casserole. See the photo.

Cover with foil and cook at 180C--300F--gas 4/5 for 1 hour.

Dumplings

4oz self-raising flour

2 oz suet

olive oil for frying

1 small onion diced fine

1 garlic clove diced fine

2oz mushrooms button or chestnut chopped fine

cold water

Method

Put the flour and suet into a bowl and mix.

Put some olive oil in a frying pan on a medium heat

Fry the garlic, onion and mushrooms together.

Add this to the flour and suet and mix.

Add the cold water a bit at a time.

Mix after each addition.

The dough needs to be firm.

Put some flour on your hands and onto the work surface.

Shape into 4 balls

Remove the casserole after 1 hour of cooking.

Place the dumplings on top of the casserole .

Cook for 20 to 30 minutes on top of the casserole without the lid.

Remove and serve.

Serve with baked potatoes

Hope you enjoy this Chicken casserole with herb dumplings.

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