Slow Cooker Chicken and Vegetables with Dumplings This is fantastic!! I used 2.5 lbs of chicken (half trimmed thighs, and half breast), carrot chips instead of the chopped baby carrots, and added some ground thyme. I did not use the parsley flakes. There are only a couple of changes I will make next time: I will cut the potatoes smaller (my husband loved the potatoes in it, otherwise I would omit them), and I think I am going add some chicken bullion to the broth so it will have a little more chicken flavor.