return the meat to the pot. you can use just chicken breast for your chicken and dumplings, but the dark meat of the chicken has the best flavor. i lean in the direction of chicken thighs for most of my chicken dishes that do not call for a whole chicken.
you can make cheater chicken and dumplings.
first off, you can go ahead and make your stock, but use canned biscuits for dumplings. i would cut the canned biscuits into quarters. you can also use cut up flour tortillas, which make "slick" dumplings and don't puff up much, but they taste good. if you don't want to make a stock, you can 