Steps to Make Jamie Oliver Chicken stew & dumplings

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chicken stew & dumplings. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chicken stew & dumplings is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Chicken stew & dumplings is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chicken stew & dumplings using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken stew & dumplings:

1. Make ready 2 tbsp olive oil
2. Take 8 skinless / boneless chicken thighs
3. Prepare 100 grams bacon or ham diced
4. Get 1 onion, chopped
5. Make ready 2 leeks thinly sliced
6. Make ready 2 tbsp plain flour
7. Get 100 ml white wine or cider
8. Take 500 ml chicken stock
9. Take 100 grams peas, frozen or fresh
10. Get 100 grams sundried tomatoes, chopped
11. Take 3 tbsp green pesto
12. Get 1 bay leaf
13. Take Dumplings:
14. Make ready 175 grams self raising flour
15. Make ready 75 grams butter
16. Prepare 50 grams grated parmesan cheese

Steps to make Chicken stew & dumplings:

1. Heat oil in ovenproof pan or dish, fry chicken until golden,turning as neccesary, remove from pan
2. Lower heat, Place bacon/ ham in pan and fry for a couple of minutes, add onion and leeks, cook until soft, without browning.
3. Add plain flour and stir, cook for two minutes,without browning, stir constantly
4. Slowly add the wine, or cider still stirring, stir in stock, season. Allow to thicken.
5. Replace chicken, add bayleaf, reduce heat, put on lid simmer for 45 minutes, stir occasionally.
6. Meanwhile heat oven to 200C.
7. Add pesto, peas and tomatoes.
8. Make dumplings, rub butter & self raising flour together until it looks like breadcrumbs, add cheese and lightly stir in 80 ml cold water to form a soft dough. You can add ground black pepper or pinch of grated nutmeg at breadcrumb stage. No need for salt as cheese is salty enough!
9. Divide in to 8 pieces and roll into balls, dip tops into pine nuts then place on top of stew. Sprinkle any leftover pine nuts on top.
10. Place in oven for 25-30 minutes until dumplings are nicely golden and cooked.
11. Serve with vegetable of choice (creamed potato goes well) Enjoy

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