Chicken And Dumplings Low Carb Food

CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Use the Atkins recipe to make Atkins Soy-Free Flour Mix for this recipe, you will need 1/2 cup.For the stew: Heat oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Working in two batches, brown chicken on all sides, about 10 minutes per batch. Transfer to a plate.Reduce heat to medium, add celery and onion; cover, and cook until browned, 4 to 5 minutes. Return chicken to pot. Add broth, bay leaf and thyme; bring to a boil over medium-high heat.Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until cooked through and tender, turning chicken occasionally,1 hour 15 minutes. Transfer chicken to a plate.When cool enough to handle, remove chicken meat from bones (discard skin and bones), and cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces. (The chicken-and-soup mixture can be prepared ahead of time up to this point and refrigerated in an airtight container.)Return chicken to Dutch oven, and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium, add chopped zucchini, and cook just until tender but still bright green, about 6 minutes.For the dumplings: Heat oven to 400°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside.In a medium bowl, whisk together the baking mix, wheat gluten, baking powder, salt and pepper. With a pastry cutter, cut the butter into the mixture until no pieces larger than small peas remain.Whisk egg and cream together in a cup. With a fork, add egg mixture to dry ingredients, and stir until evenly moistened. Drop rounded tablespoons of dough (about 10 g each) onto prepared baking sheet, forming 10 mounds.Bake until golden, about 12 minutes. Ladle stew into serving bowls (about 2 ounces cooked chicken and 3/4 cup broth and vegetables per serving), top each with a dumpling, and serve.

CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS LOW CARB

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• 2. Spread melted butter into a 9 X 13 casserole dish. Remove any skin and bone from cooked chicken and shred. Spread evenly in casserole dish with the butter. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and any other seasonings that you like.
• 3. In a small mixing bowl, add baking mix and water. Mix together with your hands or a fork until you can form a soft dough. Using your hands, roll dough into a ball and pinch off teaspoon-sized pieces and space evenly over the chicken, leaving a couple of inches between your pieces.
• 4. Whisk together chicken stock, cream of chicken soup, hot sauce and pepper. You may omit hot sauce and pepper, if you like.
• 5. Pour stock mixture over the chicken and dumplings. Using a spoon, press the dumplings down into the soup, making sure that all dumplings are coated. Place in preheated oven and bake for 35 minutes or until golden brown.
• 6. Here's the nutritional information for this dish.