Dairy Free Chicken Alfredo (in the crockpot)

white bowl with chicken pasta with sundried tomatoes and peas and garlic and a light linen around the bowl

Dairy Free Chicken Alfredo (in the crockpot)

A creamy, chicken slow cooker meal your family will fall in love with! This crockpot chicken alfredo recipe is easy to whip up for busy weeknights!

Course dinner

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 6

Total Time 6 10

Servings

Calories 417kcal

Author Shelby Stover

Equipment

7 Quart Slow Cooker

Ingredients

3 Boneless, skinless, chicken breasts
1 tbs arrowroot powder
3 cups Chicken broth warmed (see notes)
½ cup coconut milk canned
2 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon onion powder
⅛ cup nutritional yeast plus more for topping
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup dairy-free cheese shredded
2 cups frozen peas
½ cup sundried tomatoes chopped
227 grams quinoa rice noodles fussili is best

Instructions

Chop the chicken into bite-sized chunks.
Add it into a large plastic baggie along with the arrowroot powder. Toss until chicken is coated.
In the slow cooker, whisk together the broth, coconut milk, garlic, onion powder, nutritional yeast, salt, and dairy-free cheese.
Add in the chicken and mix to combine. Cover and cook on low for 5-6 hours.
Thirty minutes before serving, add in the peas, sundried tomatoes, and rice noodles. Stir and ensure all the noodles are combined.
There should still be a lot of liquid in the slow cooker, if not, add in ¼ cup of water.
Cover and cook on low for 30-45 minutes or until noodles are tender.
Top with vegan parmesan cheese or more nutritional yeast if desired!

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Notes

You need only the cream in the can of coconut milk. This means that you need to use full-fat coconut milk, chill it in the fridge upside if possible and then drain the water from the can, leaving only the thick, white cream.

You can use bagged or oil-based sundried tomatoes. Chop them finely. If you use oil-based ones, make sure to drain them first.

The kind of dairy-free cheese you choose will make a slight difference to the flavour. I like to use Earth Island shredded mozzarella.

Use one scoop of Perfect Supplements Chicken Broth Powder to three cups of water for the recipe.

To thicken alfredo sauce, you toss the chicken in arrowroot powder. Don’t go overboard on this as you want enough liquid left over to cook the noodles.

When it’s time to put the noodles into the crock pot chicken alfredo, you should still have liquid left in the slow cooker. However, if it doesn’t look like enough, add in ¼c of water.

You want to really stir the ingredients when you add the noodles and cook covered. This is so that the noodles cook accordingly.

You can use bagged or oil-based sundried tomatoes. Chop them finely. If you use oil-based ones, make sure to drain them first.

Keep an eye on the crock pot chicken alfredo mixture in the last 15 minutes and remove from the heat as soon as the noodles are tender and the liquid is absorbed. Otherwise, it’ll get too dry.

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