Chicken Casserole & Cheesy Herb Dumplings

Chicken Casserole & Cheesy Herb Dumplings is a delicious and frugal family meal which is cooked in the slow cooker.

What an inspiration Twitter is! I do love this form of social media as I have made some wonderful friends from it and have also engaged with some wonderful brands through it too!

The other night I put out a tweet for a recipe to slow cook my chicken thighs as so far I’ve been turning them into curry so wanted to try something new.

Up popped Becky Thorn with a few helpful suggestions after asking about what was in my fridge. I went off piste slightly as I didn’t add ham or bacon but stuck with her suggestion of making Dumplings which I don’t ever remember making before but do love! I’ve made suet pastry before but for some strange reason the dumpling had gone under my radar!

The next morning I looked on google for inspiration and ended up just doing my own thing completely.

I found a bag of frozen wine in the fridge and knew that that would be a great addition to my stock and after a rummage in the vegetable draw came up with the following recipe.

Do adapt it to what you have, any root vegetables would be a good addition to this casserole. I would have put sweet potatoes in it but as my husband and son don’t eat them I decided against those.

Parsnip and swede would have been great too – the possibilities are endless. If you don’t have wine I think apple juice or cider would be really good too.

This meal was a total success so I will be definitely be making it again as I love clean plates, so thank you to Becky for inspiring me (we did our own version of show and tell on twitter the next day)!

With the dumplings it also seems that the possibilities are endless with various combinations being proffered over the internet with fresh herbs, grated carrot, green cheese etc being used.

So why not invent you own flavour combination?

Do you have your own secret Dumpling flavour that you’d like to share in the comments below? I’d love to hear about it!

More Slow Cooker Meals

Once you’ve made my Chicken Casserole & Cheesy Herb Dumplings you should try the following slow cooked meals too:

As Chicken Casserole & Cheesy Herb Dumplings use herbs I am entering it into Karen of Lavender & Lovage’s Cooking with Herbs challenge and also Javelin Warrior’s Made with Love Monday’s challenge as it is made from scratch. I am also entering this dish into Credit Crunch Munch which I run with Helen of Fuss Free Flavours as you could replace the wine with apple juice to make it really frugal, the chicken only cost me £1.99 and the vegetables were inexpensive.

I’m guessing that this meal comes out at under £1 a head which is fabulous for something so delicious and filling. The theme this month’s Credit Crunch Munch is food poverty and if like me you’re totally hacked off with the situation why don’t you sign the petition to parliament to Debate Food Hunger and Rise in Food Bank Use set up by the brilliant Jack Monroe. Also, if you can, donate to your local food bank.

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