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Simple Chicken & Dumplings – 9 Weight Watchers Points Plus Value

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Simple Chicken & Dumplings - 9 Weight Watchers Points Plus Value

This recipe for Simple Chicken & Dumplings – 9 Weight Watchers Points Plus Value just happens to be my husband’s and son’s favorite dish!

Whenever I tell them I’m making it for dinner they both say ‘Oooooh, yes!’

Simple Chicken & Dumplings

I don’t know why, but for some reason I just don’t make this dish often enough.

I guess I’ve always thought that it was too time consuming and complicated, especially when making the dumplings.

However, that is so far from the truth!

All it takes is some pre-cooking of the chicken, chopping it up into bite size pieces, and then adding the other ingredients.

The dumplings are the very last step of the process and they’re super easy to whip together!

The Perfect Comfort Food: Simple chicken & dumplings – 9 weight watchers points plus value

This particular recipe is very simple to make and is the epitome of comfort food.

This article, What is ‘Comfort Food’ – and Why Do We Crave It? explains how “comfort foods tend to be associated with our childhood or with home cooking, and they’re frequently prepared in a simple or traditional style.”

Bingo! That’s exactly why chicken & dumplings is a comfort food for me and my husband.

Both of our mothers used to make it when we were kids.

We fondly remember it as a meal that brought our families together to the dinner table for a good, hot, stick-to-your-ribs meal.

The perfect comfort food

Ingredients that you most likely already have at home

Not only was I making chicken & dumplings because I hadn’t made it in a while and my family loves it, but also we had some thawed out chicken breasts in the refrigerator for a couple of days.

Therefore, If I didn’t do anything with them on this particular day, I would have had to throw them out.

So, I thought, hmmm, I could make some sort of soup, or stew……oh yeah! Chicken & Dumplings!

In addition, I just happened to have all of the ingredients on hand.

I made it and my husband magically fell in love with me all over again.

That old saying that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach really does ring true!

Simple Chicken & Dumplings - 9 Weight Watchers Points Plus Value

A Great Go-To Recipe: 

I decided to make this recipe again about a week later.

I thought it would be a great dish to bring to a very sick friend whose family is in my prayers and in need of some help with meals.

It was very much appreciated by my friend and made me feel really good that I could help them out in this way.

Great go-to recipe to bring to a friend

Simple Chicken & Dumplings Recipe

Simple Chicken & Dumplings - 9 Weight Watchers Points Plus Value
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Simple Chicken & Dumplings – 9 Weight Watchers Points Plus Value

9 Weight Watchers Points Plus Value
Prep Time20 mins
Cook Time40 mins
Total Time1 hr
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 415kcal

Ingredients

  • - 1 32 ounce container chicken broth
  • - 4 skinless boneless chicken breast halves, cubed, or more as needed
  • - 1 onion chopped
  • - 1/2 16 ounce package baby carrots
  • - 2 stalks celery chopped
  • - 1 bay leaf I omitted this, but if you like bay leaves, go for it
  • - Salt & ground black pepper to taste
  • - 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • - 3 t. baking powder
  • - 1 1/2 t. white sugar
  • - 3/4 t. salt
  • - 1 1/2 T. butter
  • - 3/4 cup milk

Instructions

  • Combine chicken broth, chicken breast cubes, onion, carrots, celery, bay leaf (optional), salt, and pepper in a large pot; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover pot, and simmer until chicken is no longer pink in the center and the vegetables are tender, 20 to 25 minutes.
  • Stir together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in medium size bowl. Cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in milk to make a soft dough.
  • Drop the dough by spoonfuls into simmering stew. Cover and simmer 15 minutes without lifting lid.
  • Enjoy!

Notes

9 Weight Watchers Points Plus Value per serving

Simple Chicken & Dumplings - 9 Weight Watchers Points Plus Value

Get a Good Quality Stockpot

You’ll need a good quality stockpot to make this recipe.

In addition, stockpots are great to have on hand whenever you want to boil corn on the cob, steam crabs, or make a nice big pot of soup or stew.

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Delicious Chicken & Dumplings Recipe

This recipe is absolutely delicious!

You seriously have to try it yourself to really know how good it is.

It’s so simple, it’s almost ridiculous, but it creates heaven in a bowl.

I couldn’t wait to eat the leftovers the next day for lunch.

Simple Chicken & Dumplings - 9 Weight Watchers Points Plus Value

Only 9 Weight Watchers Points Plus Value

Another great thing that I realized after calculating the Weight Watchers Points Plus Value, is that each serving totals up to only 9 points.

That is pretty darn good for a nice size bowl of chicken & dumplings.

I just figured that it would be too fattening.

But the only fattening part of this dish is the dumplings, which is probably the bulk of the 9 points per serving.

Simple Chicken & Dumplings - 9 Weight Watchers Points Plus Value

Inexpensive to Make

Lastly, an added bonus to making this dish is that it’s relatively inexpensive.

I know, nothing is cheap these days and grocery store prices are skyrocketing.

But in the big scheme of things, this meal is so much cheaper to make than other meals you could make.

AND, if it makes your husband so happy that he gazes at you adoringly after he eats it, then all the better!

If you’re looking for more delicious, easy to make comfort food recipes, check out our posts on:

Easy Hoppin’ John Recipe

Hearty Slow Cooker Beef Stew

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  1. cheryl says

    September 24, 2013 at 10:41 pm

    You’re funny!!!! Do you think Dad will look at me like Chuck looks at you when I make it?????

    I will definitely try this one–great for a cold winter night!

    Reply
    • Pam Stultz says

      September 26, 2013 at 1:34 pm

      LOL Cheryl! Probably not, but he’ll be thinking it.

      Reply
  2. Jodi says

    March 2, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    I know it says “makes 6 servings,” but what size is the serving size? It looks delicious!

    Reply
    • Pam Stultz says

      March 3, 2014 at 7:05 pm

      Hi Jodi, so sorry for the late response. I just happened to make this last night and each serving is approximately 1 1/2 cups. I hope you like it! My husband absolutely loves it and it’s so easy to make. Thanks! Pam

      Reply
  3. Janine says

    March 30, 2014 at 12:16 am

    Is “T” teaspoon or tablespoon? Is the fact that it’s capitalized meant to indicate Tablespoon? Confusing.

    Reply
    • Pam Stultz says

      March 30, 2014 at 1:09 am

      Hi Janine,

      Yes, the capital T means tablespoon and the lowercase t means teaspoon.

      Thanks for asking! Better to be sure.

      Pam

      Reply
  4. Allie Shapira says

    June 18, 2014 at 1:22 pm

    Do you put raw chicken cubes in the broth or should you brown it first?

    Reply
    • Pam Stultz says

      June 22, 2014 at 3:29 pm

      Hi Allie,

      So sorry for the late response. Yes, you put the chicken cubes in raw. The boiling broth will cook the chicken. Just make sure that there is no pink on the inside of the chicken.

      Thanks!
      Pam

      Reply
  5. Becky says

    March 5, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    What total weight should the chicken be? I want make this but want to be sure my points are right. Thanks! It looks so good!

    Reply
    • Pam Stultz says

      March 5, 2015 at 4:36 pm

      Hi Becky, I usually use 1 pound or a little over a pound of chicken. Normally 4 good size boneless, skinless chicken breasts. I would recommend adding more broth too. I just made this recently and I would have liked it better with more broth. Enjoy!

      Reply

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