Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings recipe can be the ultimate comfort food. Making homemade dumplings is intimidating, but I love that refrigerated biscuits work well for this. (Plus, can we say time-saving?) Soup is one of those foods that we love during soccer season and even year-round.

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This easy chicken dumplings recipe is a weeknight dinner that the whole family will eat are a must. Often we are throwing together the finishing touches on dinner as we are getting ready to run out the door to soccer practice or a different school function. Slow cookers are often my saving grace in getting dinner on the table in the fall and year-round.
Chicken Dumpling Soup Ingredients
White Onion– You can use red onion or yellow onion. I had a white onion on hand, so that is what I used.
Cream of Potato Soup– If you don’t want to use cream of potato, you can also use cream of celery, cream of chicken, or cream of mushroom as the second flavor.
Johnny’s Seasoning Salt– In place of Johnny’s, you can use a poultry seasoning or a different season salt.
Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts– You can substitute with boneless skinless chicken thighs. You will need more thighs than the amount of breasts since they are smaller. The chicken thighs will make the soup greasier as well vs the chicken breasts.
You can use shredded cooked chicken (Crockpot shredded chicken is perfect) in place of raw chicken or you i have friends that have used rotisserie chicken. Shredded rotisserie chicken will lower the cook time so be sure to adjust.
Frozen Mixed Vegetables– Peas and carrots will work fine in this recipe, or you can use a more extensive mixed vegetable combination. Mine had peas, carrots, green beans, and kernel corn.
Refrigerated Biscuit Dough– Using canned biscuits in place of homemade dumplings makes for less prep time. You can use buttermilk biscuits, country biscuits, or homestyle biscuits; the grands will not work as well in this recipe.
**If you want to make homemade dumping my friend at What a Girl Eats has an easy step by step to making Homemade Dumplings. See her recipe -> here.**
How to make Easy Crockpot Chicken And Dumplings
Dice your onion; if your kids are picky, you can do more significant chunks to make it easy to pick out.
Spray your crockpot with a nonstick spray or line it with a crockpot liner. I made this in my 8 quart crockpot, but it would also work in a 6 Quart Crockpot.
Crockpot LinersNonstick Sprays
Spread the diced onion out in the bottom of the crockpot, then lay the chicken breasts on top.

In a small bowl, I used a Pyrex measuring glass and a spatula to combine the cream of chicken, potato, parsley, poultry seasoning, and pepper. I use the Pyrex measuring glass to make pouring everything into the crockpot easier.
Spread the mixture over the top of the chicken breasts. You can use a spatula to ensure everything spreads more evenly over the chicken breasts.
Next, pour the chicken broth over everything. You will not do any more mixing.

Cover the crockpot with the lid and cook on low for 4 hours.
Use a rolling pin to flatten your biscuits. You can use a glass by rolling it or even your hand; I like how even the rolling pin is for this step.

Cut the flattened biscuits into four pieces, and do this to all 8 of the biscuits.
Add frozen vegetables to the crock pot and stir to make sure the vegetables get mixed in

Lay the cut-up biscuits along the top of the food in the crockpot, and recover the crockpot with the lid.
Allow cooking for about an hour, until the biscuits seems to be done to the consistency of dumplings. They will be doughy in consistency.

Remove the chicken breasts from the crockpot and shred them. You can do this with two forks, in a bowl with a mixer, or I used meat claws to do mine with.

Place the chicken back in the crockpot; this will break up the dumplings. That is fine. I kinda lifted mine with one spatula while I mixed chicken into the mixture; some of the dumplings will mix in no matter how careful you are.

Cook for 10 more minutes on low and serve.

What To Serve With crockpot chicken and dumpling soup
Now there is really nothing that you can serve with this but these are some of my families favorites! Roasted veetabels are always amazing with creamy soup.
- Oven Roasted Acorn Squash
- Air Fryer Asparagus
- Biscuits– These are so to dip more into the soup.
- Garlic Bread
- Air Fryer Baby Potatoes
- Garlic Mashed Potatoes
- Cornbread
- Coleslaw
- Fruit Salad
How To Store slow cooker chicken dumpling soup
Once your soup has cooled completely store in an air-tight container in the fridge for up to five days after cooking. You can try to freeze this soup, but I never have because of the dumplings.

Other Recipes To Check Out
- Instant Pot Recipes for Beginners
- Comforting Winter Soup
- Tater Tot Casserole Recipes
- Recipes Using Coca-Cola
- Comforting Casserole Recipes
- No Bake Dessert Recipes
- Potato Salad Recipes
- Breakfast Casseroles
- Pasta Salad Recipes
- Crockpot Chicken Recipes
- Ground Beef Beef Recipes
- Crockpot Tailgating Recipes
- Crockpot Soup Recipes
- Super Easy Ground Beef Recipes
Slow Cooker Chicken And Dumplings With Biscuits
Ingredients
- 1 White Onion
- 10.5 Ounce Cream of Potato
- 10.5 Ounce Cream of Chicken Soup
- Parsley
- 1 Teaspoon Johnny’s Seasoning Salt
- Black Pepper
- 4 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
- 2 Cups Chicken Broth
- 12 Ounce Frozen Mixed Vegetables
- 8 Refrigerated Biscuits
Instructions
- Dice your onion.
- Spray your crockpot with a non stick spray or line with a crockpot liner. I made this in my 8-quart crockpot, but it would also work in a 6 Quart Crockpot as well.
- Spread the diced onion out in the bottom of the crockpot and then lay the chicken breasts on top.
- In a small bowl, I used a pyrex measuring glass, combine together the cream of chicken, cream of potato, parsely, poultry seasoning, and pepper.
- Spread the mixture over the top of the chicken breasts.
- Pour the chicken broth over everything and cook on low for 4 hour hours.
- Using a rolling pin flatten your biscuits.
- Cut the flattened biscuits into four pieces, and do this to all 8.
- Add frozen vegetables to the crock pot and stir.
- Lay the cut up biscuits along the top of the food in the crockpot, and recover.
- Allow to cook for about an hour.
- Remove the chicken breasts from the crockpot and shred.
- Place the chicken back in the crockpot, this will break up the dumplings.
- Cook for 10 more minute and serve.
Sharon says
We lived in Prague for about a year back in the day and dumplings were super popular there but I haven’t had any since. This recipe tasted exactly how I remembered them! The flavor was perfect.
Lisa says
I love the ease of making this classic dish in a slow cooker. The whole family enjoyed this version of chicken and dumplings.
Devy says
I made this without the suggested seasoning as I don’t have it. I put stock powder instead. The dish turned out really tasty. And the dumplings are so moreish. Thank you for sharing.
Tammy says
Chicken dumplings are so comforting! With the cooler days coming up this will surely hit the spot!
Sage Scott says
This is a kid favorite, and I love how fast and easy it is to make in the crockpot. Win/win!
Anne says
Chicken and dumplings is one of my favorite comfort food recipes and this was tasty. And using refrigerator biscuits is a grat way to make it quick and easy.
Ksenia says
I made your chicken and dumplings recipe, and it’s fantastic! The tender chicken and fluffy dumplings make for a hearty dish. Your instructions were easy to follow. Thanks for sharing this great recipe – it’s a new favorite in my kitchen!
Joanne says
That sounds so delicious and so easy! Perfect for busy school nights.
Rachna says
I have never had chicken and dumplings before. It was really easy to make and tasted so good.
Sue says
I love using the slow cooker on those days when you’re running everywhere. This is a great updated version of a comfort food classic!
Jessica says
Hey, you’re right! Usually, this is too intimidating of a recipe to make. Even though it’s so good, there’s a lot that goes into it from-scratch. Your recipe makes this more accessible to me and being able to use a slow cooker is such a time saver!
Claire says
This was such an easy warming dinner.
My 15 year old found it on pinterest and made it on her day to make dinner (The kids have a day each month when they have to cook dinner)
It was delicious and all the kids loved it!!
Our veg mix was just peas carrot, so she added a little frozen corn, but otherwise she followed the recipe exactly.
GREAT RECIPE
Anna says
This was a fantastic cozy dinner recipe, the chicken came out perfect without any effort shredding! it was so tender. It was a delicious combo with the dumplings and so easy to make.