It happens almost every year around this time. It’s still pretty hot outside and I’m over here trying to entice the cooler weather by cooking up hearty winter sort of meals. And this Instant Pot Chicken & Dumplings is one of those! I love chicken and dumplings and I will literally accept any reason at all what-so-ever to make them for dinner. So when they were brought up in passing conversation a few weeks back? I knew what I had to do. Make chicken and dumplings!

This Instant Pot version of chicken and dumplings is SUPER easy to make and can be done with no fuss and no muss - all in the pressure cooker. To start this out, you cook up the chicken on it’s own in the pressure cooker. Then you add everything else in with the drippings from that. Yes. Everything. Even the dumplings!

To be honest, there isn’t much you can do here to lighten this meal up. It’s made with fairly simple and fairly few ingredients. The one things I did was to use boneless skinless chicken breast, but other than that? It i what it is. Broth, chicken, veggies. Simple.

This Instant Pot Chicken & Dumplings is really good as leftovers too since they reheat pretty well. I ended up just popping mine into the microwave for a few minutes and enjoyed them for a second time. As a side note, I used mixed veggies and not just peas and carrots - feel free to use up what you might have leftover in the freezer.

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