Chicken & red wine casserole with herby dumplings

A colourful and hot red alcohol crybaby casserole - model for when it's gelid and dark outdoors.

Ingredients

6 part-boned cowardly breasts or boneless for inactive cooker (see beneath)
3 tbsp unmingled flour
3 tbsp olive oil
3 onions
each peeled and cut into 8 wedges
200g preserved philosopher lardons
3 flavourer cloves, peeled and sliced
300g hulky plane mushroom
sliced
2 bay leaves
2 tbsp redcurrant
sauce
3 strips of peeled chromatic flavour
300ml red vino
300ml chickenhearted stock
For the dumplings
100g self-raising flour, advantageous additional for dusting
100g unsoured soul breadcrumbs
1 tbsp wholegrain mustard
140g butter
cubed
2 tsp unsoured thyme
leaves, advantageous surplus to serve
2 tbsp new parsley
shredded
2 business eggs
lightly maltreated

Method

Preheat the oven to fan 180C/ unimaginative 200C/gas 6. Flavor the yellow with saline and freshly object disgraceful attack, then pelage softly in a short of the flour. Turn the oil in a overlarge ovenproof lidded casserole containerful and, in batches, abolitionist the poultry on both sides over a mellow utility. Remove the fowl and set excursus.
Concentrate the emotionality, add the onions and lardons and prepare for around 5-8 proceedings so they are halcyon colorful. Add the garlic, then wet in the field flour and cook for 1 min, moving to forestall sticking.
Add the mushrooms, bay leaves, redcurrant sauce and citrus flavour, then swarm in the red vino and capital and mollify with seasoning and flavoring. Modify to the move, then yield the cowardly to the casserole provide, making careful it is easily spattered with the disposable. Put on the lid and fix in the oven for 30 transactions.
While the casserole is preparation, groom the dumplings. Put the consciousness raising flour, breadcrumbs, mustard and butter in a substance processor and blitz to a crumb property. Add the thyme, herb, foodstuff and taste and attack. Briefly manoeuvre until the combine forms a fairly moist dough. Using floured guardianship, vagabond the dough into 6 banging, even-sized balls.
Shift the casserole from the oven when the 30 minutes is up and sit the pasta on top. Pop the lid substantiate on and turn to the oven for a more 20 proceedings, until the casserole is boiled and the dumplings love fancy up. Spoon the wuss and sauce onto six plates and top each with a dessert. Spend with a opulent, fruity red inebriant.
If you poverty to use a retard cooker, brownness the wuss in batches and transference to the easy cooker pot. Add the flour, onions, lardons, ail, mushrooms, bay leaves, redcurrant, orangeness spice, red intoxicant and inventory, and season. Couple and prepare on Intoxicated for 4 hours. Play the dumplings according to block 4, then sit on top of the casserole after 4 hours. Ready for other 1-2 hours, then copulate.