These chicken pasta recipes cover creamy sauces, tomato and pesto dinners, baked pasta, small orzo shapes and a cold pasta salad. Choose the texture and cooking method you want, then follow the link for the full ingredient quantities and directions. The selection includes both recipes that start with raw chicken and meals that use chicken already cooked.
- Chicken Pasta Recipes with Creamy Sauces
- Tomato, Pesto and Garlic Chicken Pasta
- Baked Chicken Pasta Recipes
- Tortellini, Penne, Orzo and Egg Noodles
- Spicy Chicken Pasta and a Cold Salad
Check the pasta type and its starting state before you begin. Some recipes boil noodles separately, while others simmer dry pasta in the sauce. A chicken pasta recipe with a creamy finish may also need the heat lowered or turned off before cheese, yogurt or pesto is added. Those details are explained in each complete method.
Chicken Pasta Recipes with Creamy Sauces
Start here for Parmesan, sun-dried tomato, lemon and mushroom sauces. These dishes have different finishing stages, including a slow cooker option and a pasta with chicken, shrimp and sausage.
1. Marry Me Chicken Pasta
Penne and cooked chicken pieces are folded into a Parmesan cream sauce with sun-dried tomatoes and Italian herbs. The pasta is boiled separately, making this a different method from the one-pot recipes later in the collection.
2. Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo
Seasoned chicken cutlets are cooked separately and sliced over fettuccine in a garlic, butter, cream and Parmesan sauce. Choose this when you want a sliced chicken portion on top rather than shredded or diced meat mixed throughout.
3. Creamy Lemon Chicken Pasta
Already-cooked chicken is warmed in broth and cream, with Parmesan and lemon added during the finishing stages. The full method explains when to add the zest and juice, and how reserved pasta water can loosen the sauce.
4. Chicken and Mushroom Stroganoff
Chicken and mushrooms cook in a slow cooker before cream cheese finishes the sauce. Egg noodles are boiled separately. Choose this for its longer cooking method, allowing time for the saucepan and noodle stages near serving.
5. Mardi Gras Chicken, Shrimp and Sausage Pasta
Chicken, shrimp and fully cooked andouille share a Cajun-style cream sauce with peppers and onion. The proteins are cooked in stages before being combined with penne, giving this option a different preparation from a chicken-only pasta.
6. Garlic Parmesan Chicken Pasta with Yogurt
Whole-wheat penne and chicken are combined with a broth-and-milk sauce, Greek yogurt and Parmesan. Spinach is optional, and the yogurt goes in off the heat. Choose this for its ingredients rather than assuming it follows a heavy-cream Alfredo method.
Tomato, Pesto and Garlic Chicken Pasta
Choose a tomato-based plate, a pesto finish, feta with spinach, or a butter-and-pasta-water coating. These options offer different sauces and chicken preparations without requiring a baked casserole.
7. Crusted Chicken Romano with Spaghetti
Cheese-and-panko-coated chicken cutlets are served over separately cooked spaghetti and warmed marinara. This is the choice for a crisp chicken coating, with the breading and pan-cooking steps completed before the plates are assembled.
8. Pesto Pasta with Chicken
Cooked pasta and diced chicken are tossed with cream and Parmesan before pesto is folded in over very low heat or off the burner. Use your chosen pasta shape and check the reserved-water directions for adjusting the coating.
9. Bruschetta Chicken Pasta
Fresh diced tomatoes and basil bring a lighter coating to cooked chicken and pasta, with Parmesan optional. The tomatoes are warmed briefly so they remain in pieces, rather than being simmered into a smooth tomato sauce.
10. Chicken Feta Spinach Pasta
Cooked shredded chicken, spinach and garlic are tossed with pasta in olive oil, with feta folded in after heating. Optional sun-dried tomatoes and red pepper flakes let you choose the finish without changing the basic cooking sequence.
11. Garlic Butter Chicken Pasta
Browned chicken pieces and pasta are coated in garlic butter, reserved pasta water and Parmesan, with parsley added at the end. It is a butter-based alternative to the heavy-cream sauces, with the chicken cooked in a separate stage.
Baked Chicken Pasta Recipes
These chicken pasta recipes finish in the oven after the noodles and filling are prepared. Check the baking-dish capacity before assembly, particularly for the layered lasagna.
12. Baked Chicken Spaghetti
Al dente spaghetti and already-cooked shredded chicken are combined with a creamy marinara sauce under mozzarella and Parmesan. The recipe includes the stovetop sauce preparation and a covered baking stage, followed by a short rest.
13. Chicken Lasagna with Spinach and White Sauce
Regular lasagna noodles are boiled before being layered with chicken, spinach, a sun-dried tomato white sauce and a ricotta filling. This larger bake needs a deep dish and several preparation stages, rather than oven-ready noodles added directly to a sauce.
14. Tuscan Chicken Pasta Bake
Chicken, penne, spinach and sun-dried tomatoes are coated in a cream-and-Parmesan sauce and baked beneath mozzarella. Both the pasta and chicken are cooked before assembly, making the oven stage a finish for the combined dish.
Tortellini, Penne, Orzo and Egg Noodles
Filled pasta, small shapes and egg noodles change how the sauce and vegetables come together. The tortellini, penne and orzo cook in their sauce vessel; the pot pie pasta boils its noodles separately.
15. Parmesan Chicken Tortellini with Spinach
Refrigerated cheese tortellini simmer in a thickened broth before cream, Parmesan, spinach, tomatoes and cooked chicken are combined. Choose this when you want filled pasta and can follow the staged chicken-and-sauce method.
16. Spinach Mushroom Artichoke Chicken Penne
Mushrooms, artichokes and spinach join chicken in a broth-and-dairy sauce. Dry penne cooks in that sauce, with water added only as needed, so it uses a different liquid plan from a recipe with separately boiled pasta.
17. Creamy Chicken Orzo with Asparagus
Small orzo shapes simmer in broth with chicken and asparagus, then cream and cheese finish the dish. The method explains when the browned chicken returns to the pot and how to keep the orzo mixture moist.
18. Chicken Pot Pie Pasta
Wide egg noodles are boiled separately, then combined with chicken, mixed vegetables, condensed soup and milk. Choose this for the flavors of a creamy pot pie filling in a noodle dish, with no pastry crust or oven stage.
Spicy Chicken Pasta and a Cold Salad
Finish with a Buffalo-sauce pasta or a cold chicken club salad. They use different starting ingredients and serving temperatures, so choose the one that fits the meal you are planning.
19. Buffalo Chicken Pasta
Dry pasta simmers in a broth, Buffalo sauce and cream cheese mixture before cooked shredded chicken is added. Cheddar and ranch finish the sauce off the heat, giving this option a tangy flavor and a one-pot cooking sequence.
20. Chicken Club Pasta Salad
Corkscrew pasta is cooled before being mixed with cooked chicken, bacon, Muenster and vegetables in an Italian-dressing-and-mayonnaise coating. Avocado is added near serving. Choose it for a cold meal, allowing for the chilling stage.
Before You Choose Your Recipe
Use these chicken pasta recipes to choose the sauce, pasta shape and preparation that suit your dinner. Check whether the chicken is raw or already cooked, whether noodles are boiled separately, and which finishing ingredients need gentle heat. The linked recipe has the full method for each choice.
