easy and full of flavour you may want to make up extra as your family will be wanting seconds !!!
Submitted by Jarrah King
Easy Slow Cooked Chicken Pesto Pasta
easy and full of flavour you may want to make up extra as your family will be wanting seconds !!!
Serving: 4
Ingredients
- 4-6 chicken thigh (leave whole)
- 1 cup spinach
- 6x sundried tomatoes sliced or cherry tomatoes work well
- 1x tsp garlic
- 300ml of cream
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 1 jar of basil pesto (recommend barilla)
- Parmesan about 1/4 of a cup
- Salt and Pepper
Instructions
- Place all Ingredients (apart from spinach) into slow cooker and cook on high for 3-4 hours add the spinach about 30 minutes before serving just to soften it.
- If cream splits add 1tbs or cornflour to 1-2 Tbs or water mix and pour into slow cookers and it should fix that problem. Alternatively you can add the cream when you add your spinach.
- Serve with pasta cooked as per packet directions and a good sprinkle of Parmesan
- I almost used a full packet of penne this made enough for 4 people
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What a winner this is. Family loved it. Hubby is extremely fussy 3 veg and meat but he went back for 3rds on this one.
Tastes amazing! Chicken just falls apart when eating.
This was utterly amazing! Definitely going to become a regular in our house from now on when we are in a hurry… We used Gluten free pasta, which didn’t make any difference to taste, it was still delicious!
Family Favourite my 8 yo loves this one. I left out the sun dried tomatoes/ tomatoes and we used the red pesto .. was so full of flavour. We had leftovers for work lunches the next day and it was even better.
how big a jar of pesto would you use for this recipe?
The Barilla brand listed is a 190g jar
Cud I use drum sticks instead of thighs?
Would chicken breasts still work with this?
Yes 🙂 I find breast more dry to slow cook but definitely still works if you prefer breast
Made this tonight and i am far from disappointed! My partner said it’s the best thing I’ve ever cooked and went back for seconds, the entire family loved it.
I served it with cheddar cheese instead of parmesan , and added extra spinach. And of course, garlic bread on the side!!
Will definitely make this again!
What type of cream is it please?
Thanks
I always recommend cooking cream myself 🙂
Love this recipe! Full of flavour and kid friendly! Do not usually like pesto flavour but i love this!
Seriously the best dish i have come across on this site. Kids love it every time i make it. I did try using a tomato pesto but it was not great. Will be sticking with the traditional basil pesto.
Absolutely amazing
Fantastic recipie. Very tasty.
Could you substitute coconut cream for the cooking cream and also could you add the uncooked pasta to the slow cooker at the start??
Your pasta would be very overcooked if you added it at the start Yvonne
Omg, this has become another favourite slow cooker meal! It’s restaurant quality. Could easily have this twice a week. The one year old loved it as well which is always a win ? delicious!
So delicious!! Will be making again??
Fantastic and so easy to make! I love adding a bit of bacon, onion and avocado, it works really well with this dish. The kids love it and it’s just so simple. I prefer the jar of Sacla pesto 🙂
Beautiful recipe, I cut down on the fats, cream etc as plenty of oil in the pesto. Still very tasty,and great for big group of people.
Would this still work if I didn’t have the pesto?
It would significantly change the taste of the dish … but it would ‘work’ as such. Just very different to how it’s intended
The recipe says everything in except the spinach, so do I put the parmesan in with It all? Or is the that on the list because that’s sprinkled on top at the end
As per first step, everything but spinach goes in at the start 🙂
Does the 1/4 cup parmesan go in the slow cooker ? Or is that what’s sprinkled on top at the end ?
In the cooker as per first step 🙂
Lovely meal. Even my dad (who doesn’t usually eat chicken) enjoyed it as well. I did add some basil leaves for extra flavour.
This is so yummy! Super easy and cheap
Even my fussy toddler loved it and ate heaps and she is really hard to cook for.
I’ll definitely be making this again
OMG!!!!! It’s an absolutely delicious meal. Will definitely be making it again and again
Wow, both my husband and I totally love this meal. The flavours are unbelievable.
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Absolutely Delicious !!!
Tried for the first time today and hugely impressed. The chicken was super tender and just pulled apart so easily. Loved the flavours, I used cherry tomatoes as I forgot to buy sundried.
Next time I’ll add more cherry tomatoes and more spinach as there was heaps of sauce.
This is always a family favourite!!! I brown the chicken thighs on the pan with the oil of the stuffed cheese red baby capsicums that I add to this, gives it a nice flavour! I also add cashews to this recipe and it just works! Super yummy!
Is there anything that would work instead to cream to reduce fat?
Delicious !!! Will definitely make it again!
Great recipe. Simple and tasty.
Love Love Love this recipe so much flavour made it the other day and hubbie commented again how much he liked it even made enough to take away camping this weekend for one night. Yum 😋
Utterly delicious!!
massive hit with my family. Paulene if I had more chicken do I double everything else?
I think there is enough of everything else to leave that as is and just boost the chiken if you need to Bec 🙂 The only thing I’d maybe add more of for that is extra tomato and spinach so each serve has enough 🙂