I love cooking with my slow cooker. It saves me so much time and with the right recipe, the food always tastes great. Last week we made Slow Cooker Chicken Alfredo with Broccoli in the slow cooker and it turned out fab so I wanted to share the recipe with you so you could have a delicious meal with little prep. Great for busy nights when you have games, practices, errands, etc. All you need it some chicken, alfredo sauce, broccoli, a bag of shell noodles and some cheese and milk.
To put the recipe together, you can either defrost the frozen chicken (use fresh chicken) or cook the frozen chicken breasts in the slow cooker (alone) for about 30-60 minutes until thawed enough to cut up. Either way, you want the chicken breasts to be in 1-inch cubes. Once they are cut up, add them to the slow cooker. Then you are going to add two jars of alfredo sauce. To make sure you get all of the sauce out of the jar, put a small amount of water or milk into the jar, recap it, and shake it well and then pour it out. Repeat this a couple of times.
Put the lid on and let these two ingredients start heating up while we cut up the broccoli. You can make it whatever size you/your family likes to eat. I do smaller pieces since I have little kids (and it should cook better that way). Once the broccoli is cut up, open the lid and add the broccoli to the mixture. At this point, you will also want to add about 1 cup of milk and 1 cup of shredded cheese. Let this cook for a couple of hours on hi or 3-4 hours on low. About 30-45 minutes before you are ready to eat, add the noodles and stir well.
This makes about 12 servings (about 1 cup in serving size). It also refrigerates for up to two days.
Here is the recipe
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 4 hours
Total Time: 4 hours, 10 minutes
Yield: 12
Serving Size: 1 cup
Ingredients
- 2 large boneless skinless chicken breasts (can be frozen)
- 2 jars of Alfredo sauce
- 1 head of broccoli cut up
- 2 cups of water
- 1 cup of milk
- 1 cup of shredded cheese
- 1 bag of shell noodles
Instructions
- Either defrost the frozen chicken (use fresh chicken) or cook the frozen chicken breasts in the slow cooker (alone) for about 30-60 minutes until thawed enough to cut up. Cut the chicken breasts to be in 1-inch cubes.
- Once they are cut up, add them to the slow cooker. Then you are going to add two jars of Alfredo sauce. To make sure you get all of the sauce out of the jar, put a small amount of water or milk into the jar, recap it, shake it well, and then pour it out. Repeat this a couple of times.
- Put the lid on and let these two ingredients start heating up while we cut up the broccoli. You can make it whatever size you/your family likes to eat. I do smaller pieces since I have little kids (and it should cook better that way). Once the broccoli is cut up, open the lid and add the broccoli to the mixture.
- At this point, you will also want to add about 1 cup of milk and 1 cup of shredded cheese. Let this cook for a couple of hours on high or 3-4 hours on low. About 30-45 minutes before you are ready to eat, add the noodles and stir well.
- Serve with rolls and Parmesan cheese on top.
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I love chicken alfredo! I never thought to cook it in a slow cooker.
I dumped the second half of the chicken broth and the cornstarch into the empty sauce jar, shook it vigorously and then added it. Saved having to try to scrape the jar and didn’t have to dirty a bowl to mix the cornstarch and water.
That’s a great idea!
Yum! I live by slow cooker meals. It makes dinner time so much easier, and this looks so incredible. I am definitely going to add this to my dinner next week.
Yum! I live by slow cooker meals. It makes dinner time so much easier, and this looks so incredible. I am definitely going to add this to my dinner list next week.
YA!!! I have all these ingredients here at home so this is dinner tonight! Sounds really tasty, thanks!
I have these ingredients here at home so I am making this tonight for dinner. It sounds really tasty!
woah! im sure this is really tasty and really nice! gonna have to try the recipe this weekend!
Another recipe that would make me love my slow cooker even more. We have pasta nights every Friday so this would easily go into our meal plan for next week! Thank you for the recipe!
Wow. That is such a delicious slow cooker recipe! I love chicken Alfredo and this slow cooker version is so much easier to prepare. Perfect dinner to cap a busy work day.
It would be so nice to be able to prepare pasta dishes in one pot. It’s really awesome to have a slow cooker because you can prepare a lot of things in it! This chicken alfredo looks so good.
Chicken Alfredo will always be one of my favorites and I love that you can prepare it using a slow cooker! It’s definitely a recipe that I’m going to keep! Thanks!
Thanks for the easy recipe idea! This is a great way for my grandsons to eat broccoli!
Thanks for the delicious and easy recipe idea! This is a great way for my grandsons to eat broccoli!
I love anything that I can cook in the slow cooker. It is an easy way to do things! YUM!
That looks so easy and tasty.
I love chicken alfredo, just never tried it with broccoli but it does look good and is worth trying. I will be making this when I have time
It looks great and pretty easy to make. Will try it soon
This looks delicious and so easy to make!
I would definitely would love to try the Slow Cooker Chicken Alfredo with Broccoli. I think it is a great plate, of which it’s on my menu later in the week.
This looks delicious! Looks like it would feed a lot too!
This looks decadent and divine! I really enjoy broccoli in my pasta for some reason!
This looks delicious. I can’t wait to try it, we have been using our slow cooker so much recently. I love all the recipes we are getting from the web. Thanks for sharing.
This recipe is so delicious! I have to make it for the kids. I love Slow Cooker recipes because they are so easy to make!
This would be a great fall recipe, thanks for sharing.
This looks delicious and great for a quick meal when we are busy and don’t have lots of time to spend on dinner. Thanks for the recipe!
This looks great for a busy ballroom night 🙂
Omg. This looks so good. i have to try this recipe very soon!