Slow Cooker Boursin Cheese Chicken Pasta
27 Comments Sep 30, 2022
Updated Feb 14, 2023
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This Slow Cooker Boursin Cheese Chicken Pasta is absolutely delicious and made with just a few ingredients. It’s a classic chicken dish with a creamy herb sauce that’s cooked to perfection.
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What is Boursin Cheese?
With a texture similar to cream cheese, Boursin cheese (often called gournay cheese) is considered a soft cheese that comes in many flavors. Think of your favorite fresh herbs like fresh chives and garlic combined with a few other ingredients like chicken cutlets. No wonder this creamy Boursin chicken recipe is among the top delicious recipes!
If you want all-natural ingredients in this recipe, you can make homemade boursin cheese.
Ingredients
- Chicken: Boneless skinless chicken breasts are slowly cooked and then shredded.
- Orecchiette Pasta: Like seashells, this pasta pairs perfectly with Boursin cheese chicken pasta. This thick pasta holds well to this creamy sauce and chicken.
- Chicken Broth: Helps cook the chicken while adding an additional chicken flavor.
- Heavy Cream: Provides a creamy sauce texture and herb flavor to the cheese sauce.
- Boursin Cheese: You’ll use two packages to give this recipe a rich flavor of garlic and fine herbs. You won’t believe how this melts into a creamy Boursin sauce.
- Seasonings: Garlic, Italian seasoning, salt, and black pepper.
- Parmesan Cheese: For serving.
Step-by-Step Directions
Step One – Add chicken breasts, chicken broth, and seasonings to the slow cooker. Then place the Boursin cheeses on top of the chicken breasts.
Step Two – Cook on HIGH for 4 hours or LOW for 6 hours.
Step Three – Shred the chicken with two forks.
Step Four – Pour in the heavy cream and stir.
Step Five – Add cooked and drained pasta.
Step Six – Give everything a good stir to combine. The Boursin sauce will coat the pasta perfectly.
How to serve
- This recipe is excellent for serving mashed potatoes and/or green beans.
- It’s also an ideal chicken dinner that can be enjoyed with a nice side salad.
- Boursin chicken with pasta can also be served with a side of garlic bread.
- For toppings, add chopped chives, an extra dash of salt and pepper, parmesan cheese, and even a few sun-dried tomatoes that go great with the creamy chicken.
Recipe FAQs and Variations
Boneless skinless chicken thighs should be fine to use.
You can add fresh baby spinach, chopped mushrooms, and other vegetables to compliment the creamy sauce.
Add any chicken with Boursin leftovers to an airtight container and store in the fridge for up to 4 days.
Yes, though we usually grab the garlic with fine herbs variety, you can use the caramelized onions and fine herbs, fig and balsamic, shallot and chive, or even the cracked pepper flavor in this creamy pasta dish.
You can use any hearty pasta in this dish, such as penne pasta, rigatoni, cavatappi, or bow ties. Angel hair or egg noodles will be too delicate for this recipe.
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Slow Cooker Boursin Cheese Chicken Pasta
Ingredients
- 1 ½ lbs. chicken breasts
- ½ tsp. pepper
- 1 ½ tsp. salt
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tsp. Italian seasoning
- 10.4 oz. Boursin Cheese, (two 5.2 oz. packages) I use "garlic and fine herbs"
- ½ cup chicken broth
WAIT TO ADD
- 16 oz. orecchiette pasta, (Cooked on the stove top, see directions below)
- 1 cup heavy cream
For serving
- parmesan for serving
Instructions
- Add the chicken breasts to the slow cooker. Sprinkle with the salt, pepper, minced garlic and Italian seasonings.
- Add the boursin cheeses on top of the chicken breasts.
- Add the chicken broth to the slow cooker.
- Place the lid on the slow cooker. Cook on high for 4 hours or low for 6 hours.
- Toward the end of the cooking time. Start the water on the stove top for the pasta. Cook until al dente. While that boils, shred the chicken with two forks, right in the slow cooker. Pour in the heavy cream, stir.
- Add the cooked and drained pasta. Stir.
- Serve and enjoy! Top each serving with parmesan cheese if desired.
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Sarah’s Notes
- You can use any flavor of Boursin cheese in this recipe such as the original version garlic and fine herbs, caramelized onions and fine herbs, fig and balsamic, shallot and chive, or even the cracked pepper flavor in this creamy pasta dish.
- You can use any hearty pasta in this dish, such as penne pasta, rigatoni, cavatappi or bow ties. Angel hair or egg noodles will be too delicate for this recipe.
- Store the leftovers to an airtight container and store in the fridge for up to 4 days.
Nutrition
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I made this tonite. Great flavor. When I added the cream at the end I did stir in two teaspoons of sherry. It just added a little something to the flavor
This turned out great & really enjoyed it last night. What do you suggest adding when heating back up? It seems too dry & was thinking alittle more cream or chicken broth?
You can add either! Or even just milk.
Thanks
Would your recommend the sun dried tomatoes in a jar or the dried kind in the package?
The jar would be better I think!
What is Boursin cheese and who is it made by ?
Boursin is the brand here is more info on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boursin_cheese
Any thoughts about how it would be using 10.4 ounces of laughing cow cheese which is to make it a little lower and fat.
I think it would work fine. Though if it was me, I would stir it in with the pasta instead of cooking it with the chicken.
Can this be frozen for another day?
Can I use something besides heavy cream for a lower-fat version?
I would try a fat free half and half. Or use milk.
What about adding the uncooked pasta to the pot about an hour before it is finished? Or just using cream cheese with the addition of garlic and chives?
I would love to know about skipping cooking the pasta and adding it uncooked to the slow cooker too! Makes it so much easier- hence the point of using a slow cooker. Thank you!
I do not recommend doing this, yes it works. But the pasta can be chalky and gummy.
Can I cook the pasta ahead and keep it in the refrigerator until ready to add to the chicken with the cream? I would like to take this to a pot luck but not sure if I should add the cooked pasta at home before I go or if I should cook pasta and add it at the pot luck location. I do not want the pasta to be overcooked.
Sounds fantastic, hence 5 stars….
Making this for tonight & want to add baby spinach. How much & when do I add?
I would add into the chicken with the pasta at the end.