Slow Cooker Creamy Tuscan Chicken recipe has great flavor from creamy garlic sauce with sun dried tomatoes, and tender chicken breasts. Making this crock pot creamy Tuscan chicken recipe is easy, and my whole family loves it!
Slow Cooker Creamy Tuscan Chicken
The concept of semi-homemade is one that I have adopted slowly. I like to use whole foods and less processed ingredients when possible. However, once in a while using a canned soup, a jarred sauce, or a flavor packet will help me get a meal on the table easier, faster, and still create the flavor that I want.
This Slow Cooker Creamy Tuscan Chicken uses a jarred Alfredo sauce, and that is the only semi-homemade part of the recipe. You can use heavy cream and garlic, salt & pepper if you wish, and it will still be delicious!
Here’s how you make Slow Cooker Creamy Tuscan Chicken:
I like to serve Slow Cooker Creamy Tuscan Chicken over linguini or fettuccine noodles, but you can serve it over any pasta you have on hand. You could also serve it or over mashed potatoes, or even gnocchi (very Italian) or rice, which is wonderful in the sauce.
I really like the pretty colors in this recipe. It makes for a nice presentation, which is a bonus when serving this dish to your guests.
For a side vegetable, broccoli goes well with this dish. I also like to serve asparagus, Brussels sprouts, or a bright side salad.
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Slow Cooker Creamy Tuscan Chicken recipe is a gourmet meal made in your crock pot. Creamy and delicious crock pot Tuscan Chicken is ready
- (1) 7 oz jar Sun Dried Tomatoes, sliced (drained)
- 2 Tbsp Butter
- 4 Chicken Breasts, boneless/skinless
- 1 small Onion, diced
- 1 1/2 tsp Italian Seasoning
- 1/4 tsp Red Pepper Flakes
- (1) 15 oz jar Alfredo Sauce* (with roasted garlic)
- 3/4 cup Parmesan Cheese (more for garnish)
- 2-3 cups Fresh Baby Spinach
Drain the sun dried tomatoes and set aside.
Heat a skillet on med-high heat and add the butter. Add the chicken breasts and brown both sides. Remove chicken and place in the slow cooker.
Add the onions to the skillet and cook until just turning translucent.
Add the sun dried tomatoes to the onions and cook for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Turn off heat and add onion/sun dried tomato mixture to the slow cooker.
Sprinkle in the Italian seasoning and red pepper flakes.
Pour the Alfredo sauce over the top and close the lid. Cook on Low for 3-4 hours or High for 2-3 hours.
When cook time is finished, open lid and stir in parmesan, then stir in the spinach and close the lid. Let cook for a few more minutes, until spinach is wilted/softened.
Serve over pasta or potatoes.
*If you don't have, or don't want to use jarred Alfredo sauce, you can use 1 1/2 cups of heavy cream and 3 cloves of garlic (pressed or very finely minced). You can thicken the sauce a little with extra parmesan cheese.
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I loved this dish..so easy to prepare..thanks for sharing!
Hi Judith, I’m so happy you liked it! Thank you for your review!
How would the cooking times change if the recipe is doubled?
Thanks!!
I think if you allow for an extra 15 minutes on High and 30 minutes on Low, you should be fine (the size of the pieces makes the biggest difference, and how much they overlap each other). Try not to stack the chicken too much, if you can. If you do have to stack it, I would flip it halfway through. But don’t lift the lid again after that as it slows down the cook time.
Turned out really good,
Thanks
Great! Thanks for your review!
This was so easy to make!
Thank you Sandy.
What can I use as an Alfredo sauce substitute? If the picky eaters I’m feeding don’t like that sauce.
Heavy cream and garlic, and parmesan at the end.
Would cooking the chicken before hand and then putting it in the crockpot make it dry or no?
If you put cooked chicken in the crock pot, then cook it fir the amount of time the recipe calls for, it will be very dry.
This dish was sooooo good! There is a little prep work but not too much. I served it over whole-wheat pasta which was delicious!
That’s great, Lauren! Thank you!
Are you supposed to stir it at all while it’s in the crockpot? I’ve got mine in there now and I’m concerned it’ll be dry. Thank you!
If it isn’t covered with sauce, then stir it once halfway through cook time.
Do you know the nutritional values? I’m trying to determine if it’s keto.
Thank you
Gloria
Hi, I’m not sure. I use a calories calculator.
This was delicious! I followed the recipe exactly, just added some more spinach after the first batch wilted. Our chicken actually shredded up mostly, and we served this with couscous. Yum! Thanks for the recipe, it seems like it will be a regular in our house!
Hi! Could you tell me what kind of parmesan cheese you used? I.e. powdered or the fresh shredded kind?
Hi, I use the fresh grated parmesan that you find in the deli section of the store.
Hi! I put the chicken in the crock pot before browning it on both sides…any idea how much longer it should stay in the crock pot? Thank you!!!
Probably not that long. Chicken cooks fast. Maybe 15 minutes.
Could this be converted to Instant Pot? Any tips?
Yes, you will need a little more broth to get the pot to pressure. Cook about 1 minute per ounce of chicken.