Slow Cooker Caesar Chicken With Pasta
When you make this recipe for caesar chicken with pasta in the slow cooker, you’re making a dish that can give you many meals. Read on for all the different ways you can serve this easy dinner and then reuse your leftovers creatively.
Slow Cooker Caesar Chicken With Pasta
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The first time I heard about making caesar chicken in the Crock Pot, I assumed it was for a caesar salad with, you know, chicken. And while it’s true that you can use any leftover protein on top of a salad the next day or even in a wrap, the real reason this recipe has “caesar” in it is because of the creamy salad dressing that’s one of the ingredients.
What makes this slow cooker dinner recipe so incredibly easy is this: you’re dumping all of the ingredients in the crock, turning it on and walking away. You won’t believe how few steps it takes to make this tasty dish.
The recipe calls for shredding the chicken at the end and then adding the spinach and cooked pasta. Sorry — you’ll need to boil that separately but that’s the correct way to make pasta. So you will need to come back to the slow cooker to add those final ingredients. But that’s it — easy peasy.
Finally, if you bought any of the ingredients in bulk for this dish — specifically the cream cheese and the baby spinach — you’re practically all the way there to use those ingredients to make slow cooker spinach and artichoke dip. Maybe if you have two Crock Pots, you can make the dip to serve as an appetizer before serving the Slow Cooker Caesar Chicken With Pasta as your main dish.
Ingredients Overview
Step-by-Step Instructions
Place the chicken into the bottom of the slow cooker. Then, top with cream cheese, dressing and garlic.
Cover and slow cook on low for 6 hours or high for 4 hours. Remove the chicken and break into bite size pieces. Add the chicken back to the crock. Layer with spinach.
Cover and let cook. Next, boil and drain the noodles. Add the noodles to the slow cooker.
Stir to combine.
Crush the croutons and top each serving with a heaping serving of the crushed croutons.
Notes
This recipe calls for chicken tenderloins. However, as I’ve stated in other chicken Crock Pot recipes, you can easily swap out the chicken for another cut. Got chicken breasts? Great. Just cut them into smaller pieces for this dish. Picked up boneless skinless chicken thighs on sale? No problem. Just substitute them for the tenderloins.
If you don’t feel like serving this with pasta, you can skip the step that has you boiling the pasta on the stovetop. Instead, just enjoy the chicken and spinach you’ve cooked in the crock and serve it as a wrap, on top of salad or with another already-cooked side.
Slow Cooker Caesar Chicken With Pasta
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1.5 pounds chicken tenderloins
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 16 ounces caesar dressing
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 4 cups baby spinach
- 16 ounces rotini pasta cooked
- 1 cup croutons crushed
Instructions
- Place the chicken into the bottom of the slow cooker.
- Top with cream cheese, dressing and garlic.
- Cover and slow cook on low for 6 hours or high for 4 hours.
- Towards the end of the cooking time, remove the chicken and break into bite size pieces.
- Add the chicken back to the crock. Layer with spinach. Cover and continue to cook.
- Boil and drain pasta.
- Add pasta to the slow cooker and stir to combine. Serve.
- Crush the croutons.
- Top each serving with a heaping serving of the crushed croutons.
Notes
Nutrition
Disclaimer
Please note that nutrient values, if included with the recipe, are estimates only. Variations can occur due to product availability/substitution and manner of food preparation. Nutrition may vary based on methods of origin, preparation, freshness of ingredients, and other factors.