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This Slow Cooker Creamy Chicken Pasta is a super-easy dinner recipe for the whole family with simple ingredients, creating a perfectly delicious creamy sauce, and juicy chicken with lots of flavor.
There is nothing in this pasta recipe that will be hard to find, and you might already even have everything in your pantry.
Make this scrumptious comfort food recipe for a simple dinner recipe to enjoy on a busy weeknight. All you need to do come dinner time is add a side or two, and you are ready to go!
Why you’ll love this family favorite recipe!
I love that making this creamy chicken recipe can do the majority of its cooking in the slow cooker to develop the best flavor come dinner time. It gives the homemade cream sauce to meld together and become super tasty.
Ingredients for Creamy Chicken Pasta:
- Cream cheese: The softened cream cheese is what will make this chicken pasta perfectly creamy
- Butter: Use softened unsalted butter for the cream sauce
- Seasoning: All you will need to season the cooked pasta and chicken is minced garlic and a package of zesty Italian dressing dry seasoning
- Soup: I like to add a can of cream of mushroom soup for added flavor and to get the best texture to this pasta
- Cooking liquid: Using chicken broth or chicken stock in this recipe works perfectly
- Chicken: You can use raw chicken breast in the slow cooker
- Pasta: I like to use angel hair pasta, but you can use your favorite
How to Make Creamy Chicken Pasta:
Make creamy sauce:
- To a medium-sized bowl, add the cream cheese, butter, and minced garlic, whisk well.
- Now add in the dry Italian packet and cream of mushroom soup, whisk together well.
- Add in the chicken broth and whisk again until everything is well combined and smooth.
Add chicken to slow cooker:
- Add the chicken to the slow cooker and pour the sauce over the top, and cover with the lid.
- Let everything cook on LOW for 6-7 hours OR HIGH for 5 hours.
Cook pasta:
- Once the chicken is almost done in the slow cooker, add the pasta to a large pot of boiling water on the stove, and cook according to the package instructions, then drain.
Serve:
- Serve the chicken and sauce over the pasta and enjoy!
Creamy Chicken Pasta – Slow Cooker
Equipment
- Whisk
Ingredients
- 5 tbs cream cheese, softened
- 3 tbs butter, softened
- 1 tbs minced garlic
- 1 .6 oz package zesty Italian dressing dry seasoning
- 10 oz can cream of mushroom soup
- 1/3 cup chicken broth
- 2 lbs chicken breast
- 1/2 lb angel hair pasta
Instructions
Make creamy sauce:
- To a medium-sized bowl, add the cream cheese, butter, and minced garlic, whisk well.
- Now add in the dry Italian packet and cream of mushroom soup, whisk together well.
- Add in the chicken broth and whisk again until everything is well combined and smooth.
Add chicken to slow cooker:
- Add the chicken to the slow cooker and pour the sauce over the top, and cover with the lid.
- Let everything cook on LOW for 6-7 hours OR HIGH for 5 hours.
Cook pasta:
- Once the chicken is almost done in the slow cooker, add the pasta to a large pot of boiling water on the stove, and cook according to the package instructions, then drain.
Serve:
- Serve the chicken and sauce over the pasta and enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
How to store leftover chicken pasta:
Fridge: Add all the leftover chicken and pasta into an airtight container and store in the fridge for up to 5 days.
Tips and tricks for making delicious creamy chicken pasta:
Chicken to use:
When making everything in the slow cooker, you can use raw chicken breasts.
If you want to skip the slow cooker, you could get a store-bought rotisserie chicken and mix the shredded chicken into the creamy sauce and serve it with the cooked pasta.
Thin the creamy sauce:
When making the creamy sauce, and it is too thick for your liking, you can add a 1/2 cup of heavy cream to the sauce when cooking as needed.
Add even more flavor:
Turn this into a deliciously creamy and cheesy sauce, and add a cup of Parmesan cheese to the sauce when you are mixing up the white sauce. Parmesan is great because it will add a depth of flavor without being super stringy.
Another option would be to add a 1/2 cup of white wine to the sauce; however, this may make the sauce a bit thin.
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Hi, Julia: I can’t wait to try the creamy chicken and pasta recipe, but I was wondering if there is a way to cook the pasta in the crockpot along with the chicken? I don’t know if you have tried it, but it would be a great timesaver….thanks!
I follow you on YouTube and this recipe is delicious! My kids devoured this and I’ve made it twice now. I didn’t have cream of mushroom or the zesty Italian so instead I used cream of celery soup and a regular Italian dressing packet and added some red pepper flakes. So good! Thanks for the recipe and keep up the good work.