Slow Cooker Olive Garden Chicken Pasta
1,776 Comments May 11, 2020
Updated Mar 01, 2025
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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
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Slow Cooker Olive Garden Chicken Pasta
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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
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I’m probably Olive Gardens Italian dressings biggest fan, but this was not what I was expecting! Just to much Italian dressing and lacking in something else! Going to have to play around with it! Not giving up!
What can you replace the cream cheese with? Some family members hate cream cheese
Heavy Cream
At my house if no one sees me add it, they all love it!
Exactly!
I’m sure it melts! Tell them it’s milk or sour cream!
Tried this reciepe. Was out of olive garden dressing so I used Otts creamy Italian dressing instead and it was great. Read the other comments and thought I made a mistake for making it. Loved it. Very filling and good
Is it best to use a creamy italian dressing?
After deciding to make this & right before I put it all in crock pot, I read reviews. The reviews scared me a little so I altered the recipe a bit hoping for something that didnt taste like vinegar.
With that being said I used half a bottle of Olive Garfen dressing & about 1 to 1 1/2 cups of chicken broth. I cant imagine what a full bottle would taste like because even 1/2 bottle the vinegar flavor was dominate. Otherwise pretty good.
It was not a “bad” recipe, but it will not be on a rotation for the family. It wasn’t anything close to what we thought it would taste like (even after adding more pasta and cheese). Thank you for sharing, nonetheless.
Did not like olive Garden Italian dressing..
I’m not the best cook so I decided to try out my crockpot and trust the recipe to a T hoping to learn something and well, I did. I learned that Italian dressing was a weird choice, and one that I’ll never make a again. I’m sure this recipe works for some people but goodness am I sitting here halfway through my first bowl lamenting how can I salvage this dish.
I cooked for a party of three and nobody likes it. If you like the taste of vinegar, and I mean you LOVE the taste, this dish might be for you. If not steer clear and just order olive garden.
Me and my boyfriend loved it! I followed the recipe exactly as it states and it turned out great. Didn’t have any issues with it, will definitely be making this again!
Delicious!
I made this using two pounds of chicken, half a thirty six-ounce dressing seasoned it well with pepper &oregano, added Parmesan cheese, mozzarella, and provolone cheese.
My family loved it, so to all your grapes with bad reviews, you don’t have to follow the exact recipe. You have to learn to taste your food and modify to your taste.
Did you use the olive garden dressing? If so, is that dressing creamy?
I loved this recipe so did my husband and kids!!!!! LOVE IT