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 whole chicken and pasta, slow cooker chicken thighs and slow cooked chicken breast!
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 crockpot chicken noodle soup recipe as well.
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! Or try this delicious one pot spaghetti recipe.
I love the combination of high-protein chicken with healthy pasta dishes like whole wheat chicken spaghetti and one-pot Tuscan chicken pasta!
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
- Crock pot pulled pork recipe
- Crock pot rump roast
- Slow cooker turkey meatloaf
- Crockpot turkey chili
- Chicken wild rice soup
- Crockpot butter chicken
- Crockpot BBQ chicken
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.
Notes
- Store: Refrigerate covered for up to 5 days.
- Freeze: In an airtight container for up to 3 – 4 months.
Question: can I use pasta other than spaghetti? Like elbow macaroni, or even something larger? And if yes, what would be the changes in cooking time, etc.? Thanks!
Yes, you can try! I would cook any pasta shape an initial 3o minutes, check for doneness and either go longer or ready to serve.
Thank you!
This recipe is a keeper for my husband and myself. I used chicken breast, and regular tomato sauce vs low sodium, but otherwise followed the recipe ingredients (which I don’t usually do). I am going to try Rotel tomatoes and more onions next time…maybe a different noodle. Not because I didn’t like the spaghetti, but because I think the recipe is flexible enough to change around.
My chicken was partially frozen when i put it in the crock pot, so i started out on ‘high’ for two hours, then lowered to cook the rest of the time on ‘low’.
We will be enjoying the left overs later this week 🙂
That’s wonderful to hear!
Can I use zucchini for the pasta & if so can I freeze it?
Unfortunately not. Zucchini is a veggie consisting of 90% water. It cooks in 3 mins on the skillet and will “disappear” in a slow cooker in 1 hour. For same reasons, can’t freeze it either.
Made this tonight and it’s delicious. I haven’t made one recipe of yours that my family and I didn’t love. Thank you for the wonderful recipes.
Awe, thank you so much for your kind words! Makes me so happy to hear.
I made this recipe the other night and it was delicious. My husband said he preferred my old way of making spaghetti, but he ate 2 big helpings of this one and we have had it for lunch for 2 days running.
I am so happy to have found your site, I’ve been using my instant pot regularly ever since. Thank you so much.
I am always so happy to hear that people are inspired to use their instant pots 🙂
Awesome! So good and taste great as leftovers
Can I freeze this or no because of pasta?
Can’t freeze pasta.
Love this recipe
Soo easy and still so good