Something Comforting: Chicken & Biscuits

Welcome to the first new recipe in AGES! I could apologize for days for my absence, but that wouldn't be as effective as just posting a recipe again.

I made this one for Chase one day (ages ago) when I was home and he was on campus all day. He came home to the smell of delicious chickeny goodness. I found the recipe in the Gooseberry cookbook Chase's mom gave me for Christmas. It's full of good, easy recipes, and this was the first I tried.

I made a few modifications to the recipe, mostly to add more layers of flavor, but also because the biscuits were overwhelmingly salty. I like salty, but this was a bit ridiculous. Modifications below, as always.

Happy cooking!

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Chicken & Biscuits

Ingredients

2 chicken breasts, cut into cubes

2-3 Tbsp vegetable oil

6 strips of bacon, cooked and crumbled

1 can cream of chicken soup (10 oz)

2 cups chicken broth

1 cup flour

1

½ tsp baking powder

1 cup buttermilk

½ cup butter, melted

½ tsp salt

½ tsp pepper

¼ tsp dry basil

¼ tsp dry parsley

pinch of dry rosemary, crumbled

2 Tbsp green onion, chopped

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.

2. In a large skillet over medium-high heat, add vegetable oil and cook the chicken through.

3. Meanwhile, combine cream of chicken and chicken broth in a greased casserole dish until well blended.

4. Stir bacon, basil and parsley into the mixture.

5. In a separate mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, pepper and rosemary. Then mix in buttermilk and melted butter. This will make a very thick biscuit batter.

6. Add fully cooked chicken into the broth in the casserole dish.

7. Spoon the biscuit batter on top of the broth, making about 5 large biscuits.

8. Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes, until the biscuits are golden.

9. Serve garnished with green onions.

The recipe, plus some.

Cooking the chicken (a wok works even better than a skillet for this!)

Broth, bacon and chicken, looking delicious even in dull light.

Biscuit batter into the broth.

Golden and delicious after a hot half-hour.

Happy cooking!