Chicken Spinach Tortellini Alfredo only requires 7 ingredients, one pan, and can be on the table in about 30 minutes. A win-win-win!
I am always trying to come up with new dinner ideas. Aren’t we all, right?! This Chicken Spinach Tortellini Alfredo is a winner. If I can come up with a meal that is easy, quick and doesn’t require every pan in the house, then I have accomplished something.
Lee cleans up the dinner dishes every. single. night. Even after working 8 or more hours, (I’ve said it before, I am a lucky gal!) so I love it when I can make dinner in one pan. We still have salad bowls and maybe even a bread pan, but clean-up is pretty streamlined with a meal like this.
It seems like a lot of the time when I am trying to come up with an easy meal everyone will love, pasta is involved. Most of the time a pasta dish is a real hit with the kids, too. Who doesn’t love a good pasta dish, right?
One thing I have learned about cooking over the years is that once you learn a method, you can change it in many different ways, to make many different dishes.
If you use red sauce instead of Alfredo sauce, use steak or ground beef, and change the vegetable in a dish like this then voila!, you have a completely different dish. There are so many possible combinations that my mind is just going bonkers trying to think of them all.
Some other 30 minute one pan meal ideas; Chicken Rice Vegetable One Pan Dinner, Homemade Hamburger Helper Chili Mac and Skillet Beef Tagine with Spiralized Butternut Squash.
Chicken Spinach Tortellini Alfredo
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large boneless skinless chicken breast, about 12 ounces
- 1 jar Alfredo sauce, 22 ounces
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 20 ounce package three cheese tortellini, kind in the refrigerated section
- 2 cups fresh spinach
- 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
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Instructions
- Cut chicken into bite sized peices. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat, add chicken and cook until brown on all sides, about 5 minutes.
- Add sauce to skillet, pour milk into empty jar, put the lid back on and shake, pour into skillet. Cook until sauce is hot, stirring often, about 2 minutes. Reduce heat to medium.
- Add tortellini and cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes or until pasta is tender.
- Stir in spinach and cook, until wilted, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat and top with Parmesan cheese.
Notes
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I’m thinking of making this today but all I have is dry tortollini. I’m going to cook it first in boiling water and add at the end along with fresh mushrooms.
That’s a great idea because it won’t soak up as much sauce if it’s already cooked.
Can frozen spinach be used in this recipe?
You could try it but I would thaw it and squeeze out as much water as possible. I use a cotton tea towel to wring the water out of frozen spinach, I have towels that I use for this only.
Very easy and so good! I used Rana brand Spinach & Cheese Tortellini. Thank you!
You are welcome, thanks for letting me know you like it!
Definitely need to try this one!
What brand of tortellini do you use?
I sometimes have a hard time finding it so I use what the store has. I use the kind in the refrigerated section and what I have found the most is Buitoni. I have seen it on the aisle with the dry pasta but I have never tried it.
You may want to specify type of tortellini in ingredients list as a dry pasta would need more liquid to cook properly.
We made this tonight for a quick dinner. Couldn’t take a picture cuz it was gone to fast I will be making this again❤️❤️
I made this. I cut up and cooked bacon, then browned the chicken. I also added one jalapeno. It was so yummy. My granddaughters loved it (5 & 7). Thanks for sharing.
Sounds delish, thanks!
This recipe is delicious but I wonder if adding diced tomatoes could add something to the dish.
Give it a try, it sounds yummy!
Do you remove the chicken after it’s cooked and then readd it once everything is done or keep the chicken in the pan the whole process?
I don’t take the chicken out. I just proceed with the recipe. Thanks, Mindy
Are you supposed to cut up chicken after browning it?
I have edited the recipe because I forgot to include the step to cut the chicken before you brown it. Thanks for asking so I could include this step.
You’re right, who doesn’t love a good pasta dish? Well played, worthy addition of chicken & spinach!
Thanks, Josh!
Those tortellini look so GOOD! Chicken, spinach and pasta…an absolutely delicious combo.
I thought so too. Thanks!