This recipe for Chicken and Biscuits recipe is an easy chicken recipe that is one of my family favorites. This homestyle chicken biscuit recipe is my favorite easy dinner recipe.
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❤️ Why you'll love it
Simple ingredients: all fresh, natural ingredients are used to make this delicious comfort food recipe.
Classic recipe: Chicken and Biscuits is a timeless classic chicken recipe.
One-Pot meal: the entire recipe is made in one dish, making clean up extra easy for weekday dinners.
🥘 Ingredients
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Thick cut bacon: this adds a lot of flavor to the chicken gravy! You will use about a tablespoon of the bacon fat with the olive oil to sear the chicken legs.
Chicken legs: see tips for removing skin from chicken legs
Buttermilk biscuits: the recipe I used is my Mom's Old Fashioned Buttermilk Biscuits, you won't use all of the biscuits for this chicken gravy recipe, but you can freeze leftovers for future use.
🔪 Instructions
- In large nonstick skillet, cook bacon pieces until browned and crispy. Remove cooked bacon from skillet and place on a paper towel lined plate. Leave bacon grease in the skillet.
- Sprinkle the chicken legs with salt and pepper. Heat ½ tablespoon of oil in skillet with bacon fat. Add chicken legs and brown on each side over medium heat. Remove legs from skillet and add remaining oil.
- Saute carrots, onions, and celery until fragrant and just start to soften. Stir in 1 tablespoon of flour.
- Add chicken stock, stirring to prevent flour veggie mixture from clumping. Add bacon pieces to veggie mixture.
- Return chicken legs to skillet and add enough water to almost cover the chicken. Bring to a boil, cover, lower heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Remove cover and simmer another 15 minutes. Remove legs from pan and let cool slightly. Using two forks, pull the meat off the chicken legs and return to skillet with broth.
- Mix ¼ cup water and 2 heaping tablespoons flour to make a slurry. Stir into simmering broth mixture, stirring constantly to prevent clumps.
- Serve warm with biscuits.
🥄 Equipment
🥫Storage
Refrigerate: store leftovers in an airtight container up to 5 days.
Freeze: store in a freezer safe airtight container up to 3 months.
Reheat: thawed chicken gravy can be reheated on the stove over low heat or in the microwave until warmed through. To reheat biscuits, place in a 300 degree oven on a baking sheet for 10 minutes.
📖 Variations
- Leftover chicken or store-bought rotisserie chicken can be used in this recipe to save time. Just cook the vegetables until tender and add the cooked chicken to the gravy in step 6.
- Substitute store bought biscuit dough or easy drop biscuits for the homemade biscuits.
- Make the chicken gravy extra creamy and substitute ¼ cup heavy cream for the same amount of chicken broth.
- Stir in 1 cup of frozen peas to the chicken gravy mixture.
💭 Tips
- Remove the skin from chicken legs. Use a strong paper towel to get hold of the skin at the top of the drumstick. Gripping the skin with the paper towel, pull down on the skin and slip it right off the drumstick. This works to keep the skin and hand dry when removing the skin and stop it from slipping off the skin while pulling it off.
- Bake biscuits ahead of time and just reheat when its time to serve the chicken gravy.
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🍽 Serve with..
Serve with a side of green beans and extra biscuits with butter.
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📖 Recipe
Chicken and Biscuits
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Ingredients
- 1 slice thick cut bacon , cut into small pieces
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 pound chicken legs , skin removed
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ cup thinly sliced carrots thinly sliced
- ¼ cup thinly sliced celery thinly sliced
- ½ medium onion , chopped
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 3 heaping tablespoons all-purpose flour
- ½ cup water
- 4 large buttermilk biscuits
Instructions
- In large nonstick skillet, cook bacon pieces until browned and crispy. Remove cooked bacon from skillet and place on a paper towel lined plate. Leave bacon grease in the skillet.
- Sprinkle the chicken legs with salt and pepper. Heat ½ tablespoon of oil in skillet with bacon fat. Add chicken legs and brown on each side over medium heat. Remove legs from skillet and add remaining oil.
- Saute carrots, onions, and celery until fragrant and just start to soften. Stir in 1 tablespoon of flour.
- Add chicken stock, stirring to prevent flour veggie mixture from clumping. Add bacon pieces to veggie mixture.
- Return chicken legs to skillet and add enough water to almost cover the chicken. Bring to a boil, cover, lower heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Remove cover and simmer another 15 minutes. Remove legs from pan and let cool slightly. Using two forks, pull the meat off the chicken legs and return to skillet with broth.
- Mix ¼ cup water and 2 heaping tablespoons flour to make a slurry. Stir into simmering broth mixture, stirring constantly to prevent clumps.
- Serve warm with biscuits.
honeyb says
I'm going to make this for dinner tonight!
Mari says
It looks appetizing, I love biscuits and with this chicken and its creamy gravy it has to be delicious!
HopeAnn says
This looks delicious! I've been in the mood for chicken and biscuits. I'll have to try this today.
Pegasuslegend says
Comfort food at it's finest I love this and it looks really delicious~
bellini says
This reminds me of a chicken stew that I loved when I was a kid. Mind you it came from a can but I was still in love with it.
Michele O'Donnell says
I need to make this. Looks devine!
Coleens Recipes says
You have hit the jackpot!! Almost EVERY time I read a recipe, I am mentally changing and substituting ingredients to make it "acceptable" to old Picky-picky...but not this time. This is 100% right down his alley. Thank you so much for sharing it. Your biscuits look great by the way (I'm terrible with biscuits).
Leslie says
Yum! Comfort food at it best!
Pam says
Oh my gosh it looks so good, comfort food. I will be making this dish.