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Photo of the pressure cooked chicken and vegetables topped with dumplings is seen from above still inside the stainless steel inner pot of the Instant Pot, on a light wooden surface

Instant Pot Chicken Stew with Dumplings

Maria Bravo
A super easy one-pot Chicken Stew with Dumplings that pressure cooks everything at the same time. It takes very little time to prepare and very little effort to get on the table.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine British
Servings 4 people
Calories 524 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 Pressure Cooker

Ingredients
  

Stew Ingredients

  • 50 g smoked bacon lardons or pancetta use more if you want, it's what I had left
  • 1 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil or oil of your choice
  • 500 g boneless chicken thigh fillets left whole
  • 150 ml chicken stock
  • 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
  • 1 teaspoons normal paprika
  • 4 large closed cup mushrooms sliced or in wedges. Feel free to use more of course
  • 250 g chantenay carrots washed and left whole or normal carrots cut in big chunks
  • 100 g Cavolo Nero washed and leaves snapped into fours or use a knife if you’re feeling fancy
  • 4 garlic cloves left whole but whacked with the back of your hand
  • Salt and pepper

Dumpling Ingredients

  • 200 g self-raising flour a reader has tried the dumplings successfully with Doves Farm gluten-free self-raising flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder, heaped gluten free if making the dumplings GF
  • 40 g grated cheddar cheese
  • 1 tablespoon Mixed herbs or herbs of your choice
  • Salt and pepper as much as you think you'll need, I don't add much as I add cheese
  • 2 teaspoon olive oil
  • 140 ml water from the cold tap

Instructions
 

  • Start by preparing the dumpling mix: Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl, add the oil and water and keep mixing until you have a soft dough. I use my hands. Put aside for now.
    Photo of the homemade dumpling mix for Instant Pot Chicken Stew with Suet-Free Dumplings recipe shown in a green mixing bowl
  • Sauté the bacon lardons in 1 tablespoon olive oil.
  • Add chicken, stock and the two paprikas and mix well to coat the chicken. Add salt (about half a teaspoon, I don't tend to use much salt) and a few twists of the black pepper mill.
  • Add the mushrooms, carrots, cavolo nero and garlic and stir. Roll the dumpling mix into 8 balls and place them directly on top of the other ingredients.
    Photo of the ingredients for the Chicken Stew with Suet-Free Dumplings about to be pressure cooked. All the ingredients are in: chicken thigh fillets, carrots, cavolo nero, dumplings, etc. in the Instant Pot DUO's stainless steel inner pot. Ready to be pressure cooked
  • Lock the lid in. Steam release Sealed. Pressure cook on high pressure for 5 minutes.
  • When it has finished pressure cooking, let it do a Natural Pressure Release* for 15 minutes and then vent the rest of the steam trapped inside (if any). Or, of course let it go to Keep Warm until you're ready to eat, I have and it works fine.

If you want to brown the dumplings, you can put the inner pot under a hot grill for a few minutes (the stainless inner pot goes in the oven) or decant into a different dish and brown there. But I don't bother personally

    Notes

    As with all of my recipes, make sure your Instant Pot is well loved because I like to push the limits of how much liquid to add. For that, follow the Give your Instant Pot some Love document in the Instant Pot UK Beginners' Guide which you can download from here.
    *Terminology
    Quick Pressure Release (QPR) means venting the steam as soon as the pressure cooking process finishes. You do this by turning the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting and waiting for the float valve to pop back down. QPR is handy for delicate foods such as vegetables or fish that you don't want to overcook. Never QPR porridge!
    Natural Pressure Release (NPR) means letting the float valve pop back down of its own accord (naturally, no pun intended). So basically with NPR you don’t need to do anything at the end and can keep your feet up. If the NPR takes over 15 minutes and you are keen to eat, you can release the rest of the steam, if any, by performing a QPR (see above). Bear in mind that the food keeps cooking during the NPR. NPR is useful for meat as a QPR can toughen meat. NPR is also essential for soup.
    As you can see in this recipe sometimes I talk about doing an NPR followed by a QPR. 

    Nutrition

    Calories: 524kcalCarbohydrates: 47gProtein: 41gFat: 19gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 148mgSodium: 699mgPotassium: 764mgFiber: 5gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 12009IUVitamin C: 26mgCalcium: 219mgIron: 3mg
    Keyword Instant Pot
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