Best Vermont Chicken And Biscuits Recipes

VERMONT CHICKEN PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Reserve 2 cups of stock for vegetables. Cut tenders into 1/3's. Bring remaining stock to a boil in skillet, add chicken, cover and reduce heat to simmer. Poach chicken 6 to 8 minutes.
• While chicken cooks, in a second large skillet over medium to medium high heat, add oil and butter. To melted butter, add onion, carrots, celery, and mushrooms, adding veggies to the pan as you chop them. Add bay leaf and season veggies with thyme, salt and pepper. Saute 10 minutes, stirring frequently. Add flour and cook another minute. Whisk in reserved 2 cups of stock forming a sauce around veggies. Stir in cooked chicken pieces, parsley and peas. Transfer the mixture to a large casserole, oval or rectangular. Open the biscuits and arrange them, edges touching, in a layer across the top of the casserole. Bake 8 to 10 minutes until biscuits are golden brown, then serve.

COUNTRY CHICKEN AND BISCUITS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F. Heat chicken, onions, celery, mixed vegetables and chicken broth to boiling in 5-quart Dutch oven. Stir cornstarch into cold water until dissolved; stir into chicken mixture. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute; remove from heat. Stir in parsley. Pour into ungreased rectangular pan, 13x9x2 inches.
• Stir Bisquick mix and milk until soft dough forms. Drop by 30 teaspoonfuls onto chicken mixture.
• Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until biscuits are golden brown.

OLD TIME CHICKEN AND BISCUITS

Steps:

• Make Biscuits:.
• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 450°F.
• Blend together flour and butter in a bowl with a pastry blender or your fingertips until mixture resembles coarse meal with some small (roughly pea-size) butter lumps. Stir in milk with a fork just until a sticky dough forms.
• Turn dough out onto a floured surface and gently knead 7 or 8 times, (Do not overwork, or biscuits will be tough).
• Pat dough into a 9- by 6-inch rectangle on a lightly floured surface, then cut into 6 (3-inch) squares.
• Arrange squares 1 inch apart on an ungreased baking sheet and bake until golden brown, 15 to 18 minutes.
• Cool to warm on baking sheet on a rack.
• Make Chicken In Gravy While Biscuits Bake:.
• Cook onion, carrot, celery, salt, and pepper in butter in a 10-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are softened, 8 to 10 minutes. Sprinkle flour over vegetables and cook, stirring, 1 minute.
• Stir in broth and thyme and bring to a boil, stirring, then boil over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, 2 minutes.
• Add half-and-half and chicken to gravy and gently simmer until chicken is heated through, about 3 minutes.
• Stir in lemon juice.
• To Serve:.
• Halve biscuits and put each bottom half in a shallow bowl.
• Spoon chicken in gravy over biscuit bottoms and cover with biscuit tops.

VERMONT CHICKEN AND BISCUITS

Steps:

• In a 5-quart Dutch oven, place chicken, water, celery, onions, carrots, parsley, salt and pepper. Over high heat, bring to a boil reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 1 hour or until chicken is tender.Remove meat from bones and cut into 1 1/2 - to 2-inch pieces. Place chicken in a 1 1/2 -quart casserole set aside. Strain broth discard vegetables. Return broth to Dutch oven, reserving 1/2 cup. Over high heat, bring to a boil and boil until reduced to 4 cups. Reduce heat to medium.In a small bowl, mix 1/2 cup reserved chicken broth, milk, flour and marjoram, stirring until smooth. Stir into boiling broth. Cook and stir until thick and smooth. Add salt to taste. Pour over chicken.Preheat oven to 450°. Roll or pat biscuit dough to 1/2 -inch thickness. Cut with a 2 1/2 -inch biscuit cutter. Place biscuits on top of hot sauce in casserole. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until biscuits are golden brown. Bake extra biscuits on an ungreased baking sheet with chicken casserole for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden.

BEST CHICKEN 'N' BISCUITS

Steps:

• Bake biscuits according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a Dutch oven, combine 4 cups broth, chicken, carrots, celery, onion, corn, basil and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 7-10 minutes or until vegetables are tender. , In a small bowl, combine flour and remaining broth until smooth. Stir into chicken mixture. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Stir in browning sauce if desired. Split biscuits; top with chicken mixture.