Crockpot Chicken Spaghetti is true 10-hour healthy slow cooker dinner with whole wheat pasta, tomato sauce and spices. Kids will love it!
You can also use your crockpot to cook turkey noodle soup and whole chicken and pasta!
Slow Cooker Chicken Spaghetti
Healthy crockpot chicken spaghetti is a true 10 hour slow cooker recipe with whole wheat pasta, tomato sauce and without velveeta. Once chicken is cooked, add uncooked noodles to the sauce and pasta will be ready by the time you are done shredding chicken.
Onions, garlic, celery and carrots with a can of tomato sauce, a few chicken pieces and good old spaghetti. This slow cooker chicken spaghetti was mind-blowingly easy and delicious- like this slow cooker chicken noodle soup, too.
The recipe makes a lot. You can either cut it in half or freeze the leftovers. If you don’t have chicken, make this easy spaghetti recipe instead on the stovetop and ready in 10 minutes!
I love the combination of high-protein chicken with healthy pasta dishes like whole wheat chicken spaghetti and one-pot Tuscan chicken pasta!
Healthy chicken alfredo and even a chicken broccoli pasta casserole are so delicious!
How to Make Crockpot Chicken Spaghetti
- In large slow cooker, add carrots, celery, onion, garlic, tomato sauce, water, oregano, salt, black pepper and stir. Add chicken and make sure it’s covered with sauce. Cover and cook on Low for 8 – 10 hours.
- Remove chicken from the slow cooker and shred into pieces using 2 forks, discarding bones if necessary. Switch slow cooker to High and place chicken back.
- Add uncooked spaghetti and let the bottom part of pasta soften for a few minutes. Then you can push it all in the slow cooker. Alternatively, you could brake noodles in half to fit all in right away. Give a few stirs to separate the noodles and mix with sauce.
- Cover and cook for about 30 minutes (less amount for GF pasta, especially brown rice) or until pasta is cooked. Sprinkle with parsley and cheese, serve hot.
More Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes
- Healthy pulled pork
- Slow cooker balsamic roast
- Slow cooker turkey meatloaf
- Porcupine meatballs
- Crockpot turkey chili
- Chicken wild rice soup
Crockpot Chicken Spaghetti
Ingredients
- 2 large carrots diced
- 2 large celery stalks diced
- 1 medium onion diced
- 3 large garlic cloves minced
- 15 oz can tomato sauce low sodium
- 3 cups water
- 2 tsp dried oregano or basil
- 1 tsp salt
- Ground black pepper to taste
- 3.5 lbs chicken thighs skinless (bone in or out)*
- 10 oz spaghetti whole wheat
- 1/3 cup parsley dill or scallions, chopped
- 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese grated (optional)
Instructions
- In large slow cooker, add carrots, celery, onion, garlic, tomato sauce, water, oregano, salt, black pepper and stir.
- Add chicken and make sure it’s covered with sauce.
- Cover and cook on Low for 8 – 10 hours.
- Remove chicken from the slow cooker and shred into pieces using 2 forks, discarding bones if necessary. Switch slow cooker to High and place chicken back.
- Add uncooked spaghetti and let the bottom part of pasta soften for a few minutes. Then you can push it all in the slow cooker. Alternatively, you could brake noodles in half to fit all in right away. Give a few stirs to separate the noodles and mix with sauce.
- Cover and cook for about 30 minutes (less amount for GF pasta, especially brown rice) or until pasta is cooked.
- Sprinkle with parsley and cheese, serve hot.
Store: Refrigerate covered for up to 5 days or freeze in an airtight container for up to 3 – 4 months.
Notes
Nutrition
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do the chicken juices take away from the “spaghetti sauce-y ness” that u created with the other ingredients?
I honestly don’t understand your question. You mean texture or taste wise? Not mushy spaghetti with a bit of sauce and meat. Not swimming in sauce and neither dry. Hope this helps.
did I miss it, but I don’t see when you add the 3 cups of water?
Never mind…just realized it was included in the first set of ingredients! I guess I was too excited to get this going!
Seems very nice and tasty
This looks delicious! I am in love with your blog as my new years resolution has been to learn how to cook real healthy meals for myself, my fiancé and future family! I am really enjoying doing it too!
My question for this recipe is what canned tomato sauce do you use?? I normally wasn’t using canned foods before like canned beans and tomato sauce, I want to avoid any and all gross added sugars, only ones that occur “naturally” like in fruits or if I know I’m adding a little agave honey or maple syrup. I know most canned sauces contain lots of additives or at least thats how I perceive 90% of them. Does your nutrition information include sugars? And do you avoid adding extra sugar in the recipes you make?
Hi Jennifer. First of all, good for you! The conversion will be much easier now then later when you have kids and set routine for the whole family. Sugar is not part of a clean eating lifestyle. I don’t use it anywhere. However, maple syrup and raw honey are not refined sugars although still sugars but healthier alternatives. Agave has been known to be heavily processed similar to corn syrup so I stopped using it too. The only canned foods I use are tomato sauce, diced tomatoes and coconut milk. Ideally, you want them to be organic and in BPA free cans with ingredients you can recognize. Tomato sauce I use doesn’t contain added sugar, just spices and salt. I use organic Kirkland brand from Costco but many other brands are clean. You want to avoid canned processed foods, mostly prepared meals, plus canned veggies and fruits no point to buy in terms of nutrition. I used to buy Eden Organic canned beans in BPA free cans but now I cook my own and freeze them. Good luck!
This one is in the crockpot right now! Can’t wait to see how it turned out!
I love simple recipes – the simpler the better! I’ve always thought all those 4 hour crockpot recipes were weird – I mean what’s the point? But… over the years I’ve actually started using them during the holidays when we’re home all day, or on the weekend I’ll put something in before running some errands! 🙂
True. I make soup that way when I’m home. But I work from home. I just know majority people work outside of home and sooooo many women complain about short crock pot recipes. For working moms they definitely don’t work.
Hi. Could spaghetti sauce be used instead of tomato sauce? Thanks!
Yes, sure.
Or, since I’m mKing half the recipe, maybe I could just cook on low for a shorter time.
You chicken still has to be cooked through. For shorter cooking time chose breasts or boneless thighs.
This looks great! Could I cook on high to shorten the cooking time?
Yes. On High it takes 4-5 hours depending on slow cooker. Meat with bone in cooks a bit longer. Also one of my slow cookers cooked it faster than the other one.
Thank you for this recipe! It looks wonderful. I always skip over recipes with a lot of ingredients. Mostly because I don’t want to go buy all of them for a one time use. What do people do with all that is left?! Thank you for also giving us alternatives to some ingredients!
Exactly. I have no idea. Orange blossom water, 1/8 tsp of of gingered chives, 3 tbsp of lemon oil. Seriously, is that real life?! Not mine with 2 kids and I don’t even work from the office!