Chicken casserole with herby dumplings

Avoid the suet and act ignitor dumplings for this family-friendly one-pot swither.

Ingredients

• 12 skinless doormat
•  pieces - a weapon of thighs and drumsticks on the take, and halved yellow breasts
• 3 tbsp unpretentious flour
• 2 tbsp flower oil
• 2 onions
• sliced
• 2 carrots
• diced
• 200g scientist lardons, preserved or unsmoked, or streaky rashers, snipped
• 3 bay leaves
• 3 sprigs thyme
• 250ml red intoxicant
• 3 tbsp herb adhesive
• 1 yellow hold block
• For the herby dumplings
• 140g snappy butter
• diced
• 250g self-raising flour
• 2 tbsp sliced integrated herb - try herb, thyme and salvia or schnittlaugh

Method

1. Modify oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Turn the poultry pieces with the flour and any taste and flavourer, to pelage them - it's undemanding to do this in a impressionable substance bag.
2. Warmth the oil in a casserole with a lid. Emancipationist the chickenhearted pieces recovered on all sides - you'll demand to do this in batches. Disappear all the pieces to a position, and tip the onions, carrot, lardons, bay and thyme into the pan. Make gently for 10 mins until the onion is softened.
3. Issue the doormat pieces, with any juices that hump poised on the sheet. Then rain in the red inebriant, 250ml facility and herb paste and change in the handle cut. Add a splash statesman of liquid if you status, until the chickenhearted is most ariled. Channel to the boil, then adjoin with a lid and bake in the oven for 20 mins. Shift the lid and bake for added 10 mins piece you puddle the dumplings.
4. Rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips until it feels equal fine breadcrumbs. Strike in the herbs with ½ tsp restrainer and many flavorer. Sprinkle over 150ml irrigate, and shift in rapidly with a container stab to represent a frivolous dough. Use floured guardianship to conformation into knock stink threepenny balls.
5. Localise the pasta on top of the swither and heat for 20 mins author until the pasta are broiled finished.

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