Renee's Chicken and Dumplings

My boss brought in Chicken and Dumplings the other day to work. They tasted soooo good. I asked for the recipe and she said; "you're not going to believe how easy this is to make". Good, I like easy! The other good part of this recipe is inexpensive. For about $7.00 I made enough chicken and dumplings for 1 meal, lunch a 2nd day and froze about 2 servings for later in the week.
NOTE: when buying biscuits, look for inexpensive ones; you don't need Pillsbury, any store brand or off brand will do. Look for homestyle, not butter or flaky. Also, in the recipe I refer to biscuits before they get into the broth, but dumplings once in the pot.



1 whole chicken; remove giblets if they are in the chicken
4 cans of inexpensive refrigerated biscuits (the ones I buy come in a 4 pack)
chicken stock / bouillon cubes or grains
1 stick of butter
flour
stock pot


1. Place chicken in stock pot with enough water to cover chicken. Let chicken boil on high for about 1 - 1 1/2 hours. Check chicken for doneness (no pink color near the bones)
2. Remove chicken, place in bowl to cool.
3. In pot of boiling water add the stick of butter. Measure the bouillon / stock / grains to about how much water in left in your stock pot. I used about 6 bouillon cubes. At this time if you think you want more liquid, add more water and stock liquid / grains etc.
4. Open a package of biscuits; on a lightly floured surface, roll each biscuit thin. Cut in half and then into small strips (you should get about 10 pieces per biscuit). Add about 4 T. of flour to a medium sized bowl; toss biscuit pieces with flour in bowl. I was placing about 1/2 a can into the bowl and then putting those into boiling broth to cover the top.
5. After each addition of biscuits to the broth, stir about every 1 or 2 minutes. Dumplings will puff up and then will sink to the bottom. Stirring will help the dumplings to not stick to the bottom of the pot.
6. Continue making more dumplings; adding to broth; stirring. Until all are added.
7. By this time your chicken should be cooled enough to remove from bones and shred. Place shredded chicken into the pot.
8. Enjoy chicken and dumplings!