Slow Cooker Olive Garden Chicken Pasta
1,841 CommentsUpdated Jan 18, 2026
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure policy.
Use Olive Garden Italian Dressing to make this Slow Cooker Olive Garden Chicken Pasta! It’s a creamy pasta dish that has so much flavor.
We love easy pasta dishes for the crockpot! Try my Baked Spaghetti, Feta and Tomato Pasta, or Beef Stroganoff recipes too!
I found this recipe in my Facebook group and had to try it out! You can make this Olive Garden Chicken with or without the pasta! Serve over rice or just with green steamed vegetables.
How to make Olive Garden Chicken Pasta in the Crockpot:
- Add chicken breasts to the slow cooker.
- Pour over one 16-ounce jar of Olive Garden Italian Dressing (or any Italian dressing you have on hand.
- Shake over grated parmesan cheese and ground pepper. Add one block of cream cheese.
- Place the lid on the slow cooker and cook on HIGH for 4 hours or low for 5-6.
- Shred the chicken with two forks right in the slow cooker.
- Cook 16 ounces of pasta according to the package directions on the stove-top. I am using penne pasta for this recipe.
- Add the drained pasta to the slow cooker along with the sauce and shredded chicken, stir.
- Sprinkle over more parmesan cheese if desired. I also garnished with a touch of oregano and black pepper.
Can I serve this chicken with something other than pasta?
- Serve over rice.
- Or with steamed vegetables.
Must I use cream cheese?
You can leave it out or add a cup of heavy cream at the end of cooking time is desired. Though the sauce will be thinner.
Does this taste like chicken alfredo?
This Olive Garden Chicken Pasta is thick and creamy like alfredo but has a zesty Italian dressing flavor
What should I serve with olive garden chicken pasta?
Chose one or more of these great dishes to go along with this dish:
- Olive Garden Salad – Recipe by The Cookie Rookie
- Olive Garden Bread Sticks – Recipe by Lil Luna (or buy them premade, I get mine at Safeway)
- Slow Cooker Copycat Gnocchi Soup
- Slow Cooker Copycat Zuppa Toscana
- Slow Cooker Copycat Minestrone – Recipe by Tammilee Tips
Want to make more magic in your crockpot? Stay up to date and subscribe to my newsletter and follow along on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube.
Slow Cooker Olive Garden Chicken Pasta
How to Video
Ingredients
- 1.5 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breast, (1.5-2 pounds works fine)
- 16 oz. Olive Garden Italian dressing, (or any Italian dressing you like) Note- olive garden dressing is high in sodium and can be salty. Choose a lower sodium dressing if desired.
- 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1/4 tsp. black pepper
- 8 oz. cream cheese
Add these items after cooking time is up:
- 16 oz. penne pasta, cooked according to package directions and drain well
- 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Add the chicken breasts to the slow cooker.
- Pour over the Olive Garden Italian dressing and sprinkle over the parmesan cheese and pepper.
- Place the cream cheese on top.
- Place the lid on the slow cooker. Cook on HIGH for 4 hours or LOW for 5-6 hours.
- When the cooking time is almost done, start cooking the pasta on the stove top as directed on the package.
- Shred the chicken with 2 forks. Drain the pasta and add to the chicken and sauce. Stir. Sprinkle over the remaining parmesan cheese.
- Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
I made this today and it was one of the most delicious dinners I have ever tasted. I made it with more chicken.
How much time prior to the time being done do you add the cooked.penne to the mixture?
You wait until it is done.
Maybe add some whole milk or heavy whipping cream. If it’s too liquidity you can always add some cornstarch to make it thicker.
Thank you for this great recipe! We don’t like Italian dressing so I was skeptical. Didn’t have OG dressing so used half a bottle of Kroger zesty Italian dressing with 1/2 cup chicken broth. Just perfect flavor and taste, moist chicken (used 2 large breasts cut in thirds) and perfectly creamy. Will definitely make again as my husband loved it. Glad I didn’t read the reviews first and trusted my gut or I might not have made it! Thanks again for sharing this awesome recipe!
Forgot to, definitely 5 *!
Making this today and decided to do it your way! Thank you for the suggestion of half chicken broth
Every thing looks yummy!
Made this tonight and its actually really good, different but good. After reading the comments I was sure it was going to turn out a salty overly sour and pungent mess, but it didn’t. It was perfectly seasoned the flavors blended really well. This meal would be a good once in a while dinner because like I said it is quite different tasting but its totally edible and not gross. I followed the recipe exactly except used chicken tenderloins because I didn’t have breasts.
I made this recipe for my extremely picky family. I have three kids who usually do not agree on the yumminess of anything I cook. One or two will love it while one or two will think it’s gross. Well… THIS was a HIT! The only suggestion from us all was that it needed more zest. I took advice from the comments to not add so much of the dressing but that was a mistake. We ended up adding a little extra to each plate to kick up the flavor. We’re cooking this again for dinner tonight and my kids have been excited for it for two whole days.
I am cooking this recipe today. Based on the review, I added 1/2 cup less of the dressing and added 1 cup of ranch dressing to help reduce the salt in the recipe. Excited to see how it turns out.
Easy recipe to throw together. We did not care for the stong acidic taste from the salad dressing. This recipe is very filling and calorie laden. We won’t be making it again.
I am cooking this right now for my family and I feel I should have read the comments before I even attempted to make it. I’m worried now it is going to turn out to zesty and just not nice at all.
Also based off the picture the Italian dressing I used looks NOTHING like what it is pictured in the crockpot. Doesn’t look creamy at all and where I’m from we don’t have OG Italian Drssing.
I pray this turns out nice or I am going to have a whole family (8 people) very hungry and nothing to feed them.