Betty Crocker’s recipe begins with making homemade chicken stock to use as the base of the chicken and dumplings — a rather laborious process that I was surprised to see in a Betty Crocker recipe! You’ll start by adding an entire cut-up chicken, celery, carrots, onion, parsley, salt, pepper, and water into a large Dutch oven.
You'll love the tender dumplings that are low carb, Paleo, Keto, and Whole30 friendly! Heat a large soup pot or dutch oven over medium high heat. Once hot, coat with 1 tbsp oil. Meanwhile, season the chicken thighs with herbes de Provence and sea salt. Place chicken inside the pot.
In a large stockpot, melt butter over medium heat. Add leek, celery, onion and carrots and cook until softened. Add chicken, zucchini, and chicken broth. Bring to a boil. Once boiling, turn heat to low and simmer. Season with salt and pepper. While the chicken soup is cooking, start making the dumplings.
The dough is what we call dumplings, and it makes up he most comforting aspect of the dish. For gluten-free, low carb and keto recipes, the main issue with a traditional chicken and dumplings recipe is – you guessed it – the dumplings. But, I’m a firm believer that we can make almost anything low carb and keto.