Moms Incredible Chicken Stew Food

MOM'S CHICKEN STEW

Steps:

• Place cleaned chicken in a 6 quart soup pot and cover with water.
• Bring chicken to a boil, reduce heat to medium and slow boil for 1 hour to cook the chicken and create a chicken broth.
• Skim fat off the top and add more water if necessary to keep chicken covered.
• Remove chicken to a bowl and set aside to cool.
• Strain all of the fat out of the chicken broth.
• Mix the chicken base and water into the broth.
• Add onions, carrots, potatoes, pepper and parsley to the broth and bring it up to a slow boil for 30 minutes.
• While the veggies cook remove all the meat from the chicken and add it to the pot.
• Melt butter in the microwave for 40 seconds in a glass measuring cup.
• Add the flour to the butter and stir until smooth and creamy.
• Pour into the boiling soup and stir to mix.
• Reduce heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes to thicken and then serve.
• TinTN: You make a good point that sometimes it does not thicken, I think sometimes the potatoes have more starch than other times and that there may be more or less stock when you take out the chicken because I have that problem at times too. My solution -- I make another batch of the butter and flour and add some more until it thickens. Hope it helps!

MOM'S INCREDIBLE CHICKEN STEW

Steps:

• Place first 7 ingredients in large pot; cover with water.
• Add soy sauce; simmer until chicken is tender, about 1 1/2 hours.
• Remove chicken from pot; cool and debone.
• Replace chicken to pot.
• Add Knox soup mix, potatoes, and frozen peas.
• Simmer for 1/2 hour.
• Mix Bisquick with 1 cup water.
• Drop the dough by large tablespoonfuls into simmering stew (about 15 dumplings).
• Cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Uncover and simmer for another 10 minutes.