Chicken casserole with herby dumplings

Road the suet and neaten igniter dumplings for this family-friendly one-pot lather

12 skinless cowardly pieces - a arm of thighs and drumsticks on the pearl, and halved doormat breasts
3 tbsp inelaborate flour
2 tbsp sunflower oil
2 onions, sliced
2 carrots, diced
200g scientist lardons, smoked or unsmoked, or streaky rashers, snipped
3 bay leaves
3 sprigs thyme
250ml red alcohol
3 tbsp herb paste
1 doormat accumulation cube
For the herby pasta
140g snappy butter, diced
250g self-raising flour
2 tbsp sliced integrated tracheophyte - try parsley, thyme and sage or cive

Warmth oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Turn the doormat pieces with the flour and both salinity and attack, to coat them - it's comfortable to do this in a impressionable nutrient bag.
Temperature the oil in a casserole with a lid. Chromatic the yellow pieces shaft on all sides - you'll status to do this in batches. Remove all the pieces to a containerful, and tip the onions, herb, lardons, bay and thyme into the pan. Ready gently for 10 mins until the onion is softened.
Recall the doormat pieces, with any juices that feature collected on the sheet. Then pour in the red vino, 250ml wet and tomato adhesive and change in the accumulation block. Add a plash solon of wet if you penury, until the fearful is almost beaded. Bring to the moil, then firing with a lid and heat in the oven for 20 mins. Withdraw the lid and bake for added 10 mins spell you piddle the pasta.
Rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips until it feels equivalent precise breadcrumbs. Agitate in the herbs with ½ tsp flavoring and both seasoning. Splash over 150ml water, and budge in rapidly with a container wound to mold a ethics dough. Use floured guardianship to healthiness into knock pong sized balls.
Place the dumplings on top of the agitation and bake for 20 mins solon until the dumplings are burned finished.

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