This Skinny Chicken Alfredo with Broccoli is such an addicting pasta recipe! It feels like a dish straight out of Italy, and it’s super easy to make in just half an hour!
Skinny Chicken Alfredo with Broccoli
Chicken Alfredo is a favorite comfort food! But life just got better with this Skinny Chicken Alfredo Pasta thats on the table in 30 minutes! YES please! Your family will love it!
Ok, this recipe is for all you moms out there.
When Cason was little he used to eat vegetables like it was his job. There was not a vegetable he didn’t try. I loved it and felt like I was supermom getting my kid to eat vegetables.
Surely he would be that way for all time.
Oh what a delusional world I lived it.
Little man turned two and a half and decided that he all of a sudden didn’t want vegetables. All he wanted was Mac and Cheese.
Ugh.. mom fail.
I was determined to sneak in any vegetables I could to his diet and this Skinny chicken Alfredo with Broccoli I was hoping would do the trick. The day came and I cooked everything up, plated it and sat down with my little guy to see what would happen. He looked at it and the first thing out of his mouth.
“Mommy I don’t like it”.
So of course I jumped right in there with logic, because we all know that two and half year olds understand and exude logic.
“Buddy you haven’t even tried it”.
His response remained the same. So sometime over the next couple of minutes of begging and pleading he allowed a bite to slip into his mouth. “Mommy I like it, its good.”
For all of you out there who have had the joy of living with a two year old you will understand, that phrase, all be it, few and far between is one of the most rewarding you can hear. I’m hoping you have the same success as I did.
This recipe has not one, not two, but three vegetables in it and your child or YOUR HUSBAND hehe will never know!
Fresh Spinach Pasta, Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce and Broccoli Florets {aka “trees” thats what we call them at home}, its the perfect surprise sneak attack that your family will never seen coming.
The best thing about this recipe is its done in 30 minutes … which is my new standard cooking time these days!
This Chicken Alfredo recipe seriously tastes just like the stuff you’d get in the restaurant except its half the calories!
Skinny Chicken Alfredo with Broccoli
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 21 mins
- Total Time: 26 mins
- Yield: 4-6 servings 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Stove
- Cuisine: Italian
Description
This Skinny Chicken Alfredo with Broccoli is such an addicting pasta recipe! It feels like a dish straight out of Italy, and it’s super easy to make in just half an hour!
Ingredients
- 16 oz. of fresh spinach pasta (I got mine at Sprouts, but you can get it at most grocery stores)
- 2 cooked chicken breasts, cubed
- 2 cups of broccoli florets
- Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce
- salt & pepper to taste
Instructions
- Make Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce, put into a large saucepan over low heat to keep warm.
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil, add broccoli florets. Cover and cook for 2-3 minutes until they turn bright green – scoop florets out of water and place in a bowl of ice water to shock the broccoli and stop the cooking process.
- Add fresh spinach pasta to the same boiling water you added broccoli too. Cook pasta for 2-3 minutes – or whatever the package instruction say.
- Remove pasta from water and place in large saucepan with cauliflower alfredo sauce, add broccoli and chicken to the saucepan as well. Gently toss with tongs till everything is coated with the alfredo sauce.
- Serve.
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More Healthy Pasta Dishes
Sweet Potato Noodles with Sage Brown Butter Sauce
Roasted Butternut Squash Creamy Goat Cheese Pasta
Shrimp Scampi with Zucchini Noodles
42 comments on “Skinny Chicken Alfredo with Broccoli”
Okay, this is the kind of meal that makes you sit back and sigh with satisfaction when you’re done. Best restaurant in Hong Kong should have this!
Yes they should! Totally and healthy comfort food for sure!
This looks delicious! I need to try this asap! Love the spinach noodles. Never tried them, but need to asap! Pinned!!
Thanks Cyndi. The spinach noodles are awesome! Hope you enjoy the dish girl!
Your photos are gorgeous as always, Krista! My boys are really picky, so I appreciate how good it feels to get them to eat their veggies!
Ughh.. so glad you can relate. It was like all of a sudden he switched! Major feats when I can get him to eat them. Thank you for the sweet comments girl!
We love to make fresh pasta at home but have not tried the spinach kind yet! Looks amazing!
Thanks Nancy! Go get the spinach, its awesome!
Krista – this looks AWESOME!! Oh my.. I want a big bowl of it right now!
haha.. thanks girl! 🙂
Girl, you made my absolute perfect pasta dish!
haha.. well i do tend to read minds! 🙂
Being a nanny, I experience some of this. The worst is when the kiddo turns around the next day and won’t touch the dish they just liked the day before!
haha.. I know right! I will never understand it!
This pasta is just gorgeous! I love your photos AND food!!
ohhh… thanks so much Susan!
Dear Krista, This looks like a wonderful dish. The cauliflower alfredo is just pure genius. This sounds absolutely delish! xo, Catherine
Thank you so much Catherine!
Your recipe is so gorgeous I couldn’t wait to scroll down and see the ingredient list! Love it!
Thanks Amy, you are too sweet!
That pasta looks insanely delicious!!
Thanks Gerry! 🙂
looks like great comfort food to me and it’s raining outside and I’m wishing I was having a bowl of this right now!
ughh.. its raining by us too! Comfort food all the way! 🙂
I love the colour of that pasta! My daughter was the same, she ate EVERYTHING. Now, at 3.5, and still a good eater, I hear all the time “I don’t like that.” When she finally tries a bite, I can tell she likes it but does not want to admit to it, lol. Thankfully she owns up and devours the bowl, but I feel your pain!
haha… little stinkers! 🙂
Hope your sweet little girl loves this dish!
This pasta looks so creamy and decadent – I can’t believe it is healthy! Those photos are gorgeous – it is making my mouth water! Pinning this to try later – I need to make this cauliflower sauce!
Thank you so much Cate! 🙂 You will love the cauliflower sauce, will not be able to tell the difference one bit! 🙂
This looks delicious Krista! We’d have to use gf pasta but can’t wait to try it out!
gf it up girl! It will still be delicious. 🙂
What a delicious looking dish! My kids called broccoli florets “dinosaur trees” – that was the only way I could get them to eat them. I know my whole family would love this recipe. Pinned!
haha.. i love dinosaur trees. 🙂
Thanks for the pin joanie, you are too sweet!
I just want to sit and eat this all day!
haha.. I don’t blame you girl. 🙂
I have been on such a pasta kick lately! This looks amazing!
Thanks Annie! Pasta for life!
Girl, these photos are so stunning! What a crowd pleasing, comfort meal – with less guilt!
woot woot!! less guilt + comfort food = a win in my book! Thanks for the sweet comments Steph!
I love everything about this
Thank you so much!
This pasta is all I ever wanted in life! For reals!
haha… I totally understand! Me too! 🙂