Slow Cooker Chicken Tortellini

Posted: Dec 31, 2022Updated: Mar 27, 2024

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My slow Cooker Chicken Tortellini makes the perfect home cooked dinner for your family and friends. It’s creamy, simple to put together with just a handful of ingredients and has just the right amount of kick to it.

If you love slow cooker recipes like we do, try our Easy Slow Cooker Chili Recipe.

Chicken Tortellini

I’ve got a delicious crock pot dinner for you today! My Slow Cooker Creamy Chipotle Chicken Tortellini is great for Sunday dinner or even weeknights. You’ll need a handful of basic pantry ingredients, to get started. Let’s take a look at how to put together the recipe.

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ingredients lined up on counter for chicken tortellini

What You’ll Need

Here are the ingredients you’ll need to make our chicken tortellini recipe at home. See the recipe card located at the bottom of the post for full details.

Boneless Chicken Breast– I look for medium sized chicken breasts for this recipe. Make sure packaging says boneless and skinless chicken breast.
Chicken Broth– Be sure to look for reduced sodium chicken broth. I prefer adding salt to my recipes, rather than having a chicken broth with more salt.
Cream Cheese– Full fat cream cheese is what I prefer for the recipe.
Tortellini– You can use tortellini that’s in the refrigerated section near the cheeses or pick up the dried tortellini in the pasta section.
Chipotle Sauce– Find the chipotle sauce in the ethnic or Mexican foods section of the grocery store.
Broccoli Florets– You can cut your own broccoli florets or get the bag of florets already cut into florets.
Ground Cumin– Ground cumin gives the perfect spice to the recipe. It’s fragrant and smoky. Find it in the spices section of the grocery store.
Salt and Black Pepper– I use kosher salt which is a coarse salt that is commonly used in cooking and baking. It’s near the table salt. For best tasting results use fresh cracked black pepper.

adding chicken breast to slow cooker for chicken tortellini

There are a couple of options for cooking your chicken. You can slow cook them like I have pictured here for 3-4 hours on high. Or you can bake them at 350 loosely covered with foil for about 50-60 minutes. Once the chicken is cooked, shred it into bite size pieces.

How To Make Slow Cooker Chicken Tortellini

Heat crock pot to high setting. Place 1 cup chicken broth into crock pot over chicken breasts. Cook for 3-4 hours until easy to shred with a fork. Discard broth and shred chicken into bite size pieces.
Pour 32 ounces of chicken broth into crock pot. Place cream cheese, broccoli, tortellini, shredded chicken, chipotle sauce, cumin, salt and pepper into crock pot. Close lid and cook on high for 2 hours. Stir gently to combine cream cheese. Serve in bowl. Top with pepper.

adding ingredients to slow cooker for chicken tortellini

After your chicken is cooked, remove it from the crock pot. Add your chicken broth and cream cheese.

Broccoli goes in the crock pot next.

Add your tortellini straight to the crock pot.

Shredded chicken to the crock pot next.

Add your cumin, chipotle sauce, salt and pepper. Cook on high for 2 hours.

How To Serve

Serve chicken tortellini hot in individual serving bowls. Top with your favorite hot sauce and even some shredded cheese if you’d like. It’s great served as is too.

Leftovers

Store any leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Reheat as needed.