Help with a crockpot recipe please

BoxerMomma

My friend makes yummy chicken and dumplings in her crockpot. It's chicken, veggies, and two cans of cream of chicken soup. Before eating, she tops it with torn pieces of refrigerated biscuits. I want to make it this week, but eliminate the cream of chicken. Can I use a mix of broth and half and half? Is there another sub I should include to get the same results as the soup? I plan to sub the pilsbury biscuits with those more natural, organic ones. 

A&Jmom

I've never done chicken and dumplings in the crockpot, always make them on the stove top.  But, I've never used cream of soups in my chicken and dumplings.  I use chicken broth and milk(and a bit of butter), so yes I think you can sub that instead of the cream of soup.  It is not going to be as thick though.  In order to thicken up my broth some (still not nearly as thick as a cream of soup would be though) I roll out the biscuits(canned) in flour.  then when they are thrown in a boiled it thickens the broth.

You could probably just make a flour/water slurry and throw it in there it thicken it up some.  

MrsAJL

Cream of soups actually use whole milk and not cream, then they are reduced to eliminate water.

So you can use a mix of broth and whole milk, rather than half and half. However, I don't exactly know the proportions.

ssinca

Check the 365 days of crockpot cooking website - her dumpling recipe has notes on how to sub for the creamed soups. Basically, you want to make a roux with milk, butter, and flour. 

fjaril

do you have vegetables to cook in the recipe? I'd add some flour to them once they are browned then stir in half of the stock you are using and the flour/stock will get thick and thicken up the rest in the crockpot

 

BoxerMomma

Thanks, y'all.

mcurban

recipe, please?

MrsBeckO

I love crock pot chicken and dumplings, and even though I've always said I need to find a c/o soup alternative, I've always been too lazy to look into it. Thanks for posting this! I think I'll try the roux method posted above. 

Spanishbeauty

found this on pinterest today

 https://www.mindfullyfrugalmom.com/2011/11/make-it-yourself-cream-soup-substitute/

A&Jmom

ssinca:

Check the 365 days of crockpot cooking website - her dumpling recipe has notes on how to sub for the creamed soups. Basically, you want to make a roux with milk, butter, and flour. 

this definitely works, I do this for casseroles and such to sub cream of soups.  I just thought it kind of took out some of the ease of making it in a crockpot.  

But, I actually came back to say for the future if you really want that cream of creaminess and taste that I found an Central Market organic no fillers cream of mushroom soup  at HEB.  I subbed it in the last time I made chicken spaghetti, it is really good!