🍂🌻 Chili Champions & Backyard Cooks 🌻🍂🍁 Chuckwagon Fall Recipe of the Day — Thursday, August 27, 2026

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🍁 Chuckwagon Fall Recipe of the Day — Thursday, August 27, 2026

🥘🎃 Creamy Harvest Chicken & Pumpkin Biscuit Skillet 🥕🧈

Good morning, friends! 🤠🍂

We're continuing our early taste of fall with a warm, cozy supper that feels like autumn in a cast-iron skillet!

Today's Creamy Harvest Chicken & Pumpkin Biscuit Skillet is filled with tender chicken, carrots, corn, onions, and a creamy herb gravy, then topped with fluffy homemade cheddar-pumpkin biscuits and baked until golden.

It's a little bit chicken pot pie, a little bit country biscuit supper, and a whole lot of fall comfort! ❤️

🍗 For the Harvest Chicken Filling

• 2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts or thighs, cubed

• 2 tablespoons butter

• 1 tablespoon olive oil

• 1 small sweet onion, diced

• 2 carrots, diced

• 2 cloves garlic, minced

• 1 cup sweet corn

• 1 cup frozen peas

• ⅓ cup all-purpose flour

• 2½ cups chicken broth

• ½ cup heavy cream

• ½ teaspoon dried thyme

• ½ teaspoon rubbed sage

• ½ teaspoon garlic powder

• Salt and black pepper to taste

🎃 For the Cheddar-Pumpkin Biscuits

• 2 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 tablespoon baking powder

• ½ teaspoon salt

• ½ teaspoon garlic powder

• 6 tablespoons cold butter, cubed

• ¾ cup pumpkin purée (not pumpkin pie filling)

• ½ cup buttermilk

• 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese

🔥 Let's Get Cooking!

1️⃣ Brown the chicken.Preheat your oven to 400°F. Heat the butter and olive oil in a large oven-safe skillet. Season the chicken with salt and pepper and cook until lightly browned. Transfer it to a plate.

2️⃣ Cook those vegetables.Add the onion and carrots to the same skillet and cook for about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for another minute.

3️⃣ Make the creamy country gravy.Sprinkle the flour over the vegetables and stir for about 1 minute. Slowly add the chicken broth, stirring as you pour. Add the cream, thyme, sage, and garlic powder.

Simmer until the gravy begins to thicken.

4️⃣ Bring everything together.Return the chicken to the skillet and stir in the corn and peas. Let it simmer gently while you prepare the biscuits.

5️⃣ Make those pumpkin biscuits! 🎃Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, and garlic powder. Cut in the cold butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

Stir together the pumpkin and buttermilk, then gently add them to the flour mixture. Fold in the cheddar.

Don't overmix!

6️⃣ Top that skillet.Drop generous spoonfuls of biscuit dough over the chicken filling.

7️⃣ Bake for 20–25 minutes, or until the biscuits are beautifully golden and cooked through and the chicken reaches 165°F.

Brush the hot biscuits with a little melted butter before serving. 🧈

⭐ MawMaw's Fall Kitchen Secret

🎃 Pumpkin isn't just for sweet recipes!

A little pumpkin purée adds moisture and beautiful fall color to biscuits without making them taste like pumpkin pie.

For even more country flavor, add a little chopped fresh rosemary or sage to your biscuit dough.

🍽️ Serve It Up With

🥗 Apple-cranberry garden salad🍏 Homemade applesauce🥬 Southern-style green beans🍎 Cold apple cider or sweet tea

🍁 And for dessert?

Warm Maple Pecan Bread Pudding with Vanilla Ice Cream! 🍨

Now that's a fall supper! 😋

💜 Chuckwagon Encouragement

Fall reminds us that there is beauty in every season.

Some seasons bring growth.Some bring harvest.Some require us to release what we've been holding onto.

And some seasons simply ask us to wait and trust God.

We may not always understand why one season ends and another begins, but we can trust the One who created them all.

Whatever season you're walking through today, don't compare it to someone else's.

God can bring something beautiful from the season you're in. 🍂❤️

📖 Scripture for Today

"The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him."

— Lamentations 3:25 (KJV)

🍂 Thursday Fall Table Question

🎃 Which old-fashioned fall supper would you choose?

🥘 Chicken & biscuits🍲 Beef stew & cornbread🥩 Pot roast & potatoes🥧 Chicken pot pie🌶️ Chili & skillet cornbread🍗 Roast chicken & dressing

👇 Tell us in the comments! And if your family has a special fall recipe that's been handed down through the generations, we'd LOVE for you to share it!

Happy Thursday, friends! May your home be cozy, your table be full, and your heart overflow with gratitude for God's blessings. 🍂🤠❤️

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