Description
Southern chicken cobbler blends comforting layers of creamy chicken filling with buttery, golden biscuit-like topping. Home cooks will discover a hearty one-pan meal that warms hearts and satisfies hunger with classic Southern charm.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups (300 grams) cooked chicken, shredded or diced
- 1 can (10.5 oz / 298 g) cream of chicken soup
- ½ cup (120 ml) chicken broth
- 1 cup (120 g) all-purpose flour
- ½ cup (120 ml) buttermilk (or regular milk with ½ tsp vinegar)
- 3 tbsps cold unsalted butter, diced
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 2 carrots, diced
- 2 celery stalks, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tbsp olive oil or butter
- 1 ½ tsps baking powder
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp dried thyme
- ½ tsp paprika
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ cup (30 g) shredded cheddar cheese (optional)
- Salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Sauté Base: In a skillet, warm olive oil and cook diced onions, carrots, and celery until softened and translucent. Introduce minced garlic and allow aromatics to release their fragrant essence for one minute.
- Compose Filling: Combine shredded chicken, cream of chicken soup, chicken broth, dried thyme, paprika, green peas, salt, and cracked pepper with the sautéed vegetables. Stir thoroughly to create a harmonious and well-integrated mixture.
- Prepare Baking Environment: Preheat oven to 375F (190C) and generously grease a 9×9-inch baking dish. Transfer the seasoned filling into the prepared vessel, ensuring an even distribution.
- Create Biscuit Topping: In a mixing bowl, blend flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Incorporate cold butter using fingertips until the mixture resembles rugged, uneven crumbs. Gently fold in buttermilk and shredded cheese, maintaining a light touch to preserve the topping’s delicate texture.
- Assemble and Bake: Artfully scatter biscuit dough across the filling in rustic spoonfuls, leaving strategic gaps for expansion. Slide the cobbler into the preheated oven and bake for 25-30 minutes until the topping achieves a rich, golden-brown complexion.
- Finalize Presentation: Remove from oven and allow the cobbler to rest for 5 minutes, enabling the filling to set and ensuring a picture-perfect serving experience.
Notes
- Optimize Vegetable Softening: Sauté vegetables slowly to develop deeper, more complex flavor profiles. Ensure precise, even cutting for uniform cooking and consistent texture throughout the dish.
- Butter Temperature Matters: Use extremely cold butter when creating biscuit topping to achieve exceptionally flaky, tender layers. Cold butter creates steam pockets that generate light, airy texture during baking.
- Minimal Mixing Technique: Handle biscuit dough gently and sparingly to prevent gluten development. Overmixing can result in tough, dense topping instead of delicate, crumbly biscuit layers.
- Dietary Adaptation Options: Substitute dairy-free alternatives like plant-based butter and milk for lactose-intolerant diners. Replace chicken with jackfruit or tofu for vegetarian versions, maintaining similar protein and texture characteristics.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Dinner, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 5
- Calories: 392
- Sugar: 4 g
- Sodium: 794 mg
- Fat: 20 g
- Saturated Fat: 10 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 8 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 36 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 20 g
- Cholesterol: 64 mg