Slow Cooker Nando’s Peri-Peri Chicken Pasta

Slow Cooker Nando’s Peri-Peri Chicken Pasta is a family favorite at dinnertime! Made with Nando’s amazing Peri-Peri sauce, cream cheese, and some basic pantry items, this heavenly chicken pasta is a cinch to make. Just add the slow cooked chicken and its flavorful sauce to your favorite pasta and dinner is done!

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I’m not lying when I say that this Slow Cooker Nando’s Peri-Peri Chicken Pasta is one of my family’s favorite meals!

They get so excited when they walk into the house and the smell of this in the slow cooker greets them!

Plus, it’s pasta, the ultimate comfort food!

Another win is just how easy it is to make. It’s as simple as adding chicken to a slow cooker with cream cheese, broth, seasonings, and the delectable Nando’s Peri-Peri Sauce.

Serve the irresistible, creamy, slightly tangy sauce and chicken over your favorite pasta and dinner is done. Couldn’t be easier or more delicious!

Nando’s Peri-Peri Chicken isn’t all across the country yet, so I didn’t become aware of this amazing restaurant and its wonderful food until we ate it on the east coast.

Game-changing-chicken. Well, yes, the chicken is great, but it’s actually all about the Peri-Peri sauce they slather on their chicken. We buy garlic bread when we eat there, just so we can dip it in the sauce!

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What is Nando’s Peri-Peri Sauce?

It’s a super flavorful and versatile sauce made from Peri-Peri peppers (also known as African Bird’s Eye Chili Peppers) garlic, lemon, onion, vinegar, spices, and oil.

Its gorgeous, vibrant orange color is a hint of all the good things to come when you taste it. The sauce is deliciously tangy, garlicky, and piquant, but not as vinegary as a traditional hot sauce.

Nando’s Peri-Peri Sauce is available in Mild, Medium, Hot, XX Hot, Garlic, Lemon & Herb (extra mild), and Coconut & Lemon.

You can order a variety pack of different Nando’s sauces HERE on Amazon.

My favorite flavor, and the sauce I make this pasta with, is “Hot”, but “Garlic” is fantastic too!

If you like extremely spicy food like my husband and kids do, you may want to opt for their favorite, “XX Hot”.

Ingredients needed to make this recipe (scroll down to recipe card for complete recipe):

Chicken breasts
Nando’s Peri-Peri Sauce
Cream cheese
Chicken broth
Dried oregano
Bay leaf
Parmesan cheese (garnish)
Pepper
Pasta

Looking for more slow cooker meals? Here are some fan favorites:

Another delicious creamy pasta is Pappadeaux Cajun Pasta. It’s made with pork tenderloin, mushrooms, and lots of fresh vegetables in a creamy Cajun sauce!

How else can I use Nando’s Peri-Peri sauce?

We like to re-create the meal we order at the restaurant, at home.

So I bake or grill boneless, skinless chicken breasts that have the sauce slathered on it, and serve the chicken with garlic bread and some roasted veggies, and of course, more sauce for dipping!

We also use it for dipping baked, store-bought chicken tenders. Basically, if you have a need for a flavorful, zesty sauce, you can’t go wrong with Nando’s!

How long is the slow cooker chicken good for?

Keep the leftover chicken and sauce in an air-tight container in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days.

Because of the dairy in the recipe, I do not recommend freezing it.

NOTES:

I do not add the cooked pasta to the slow cooker for several reasons. 1) The pasta absorbs the sauce and you don’t want mushy pasta. 2) People like different amounts of sauce on their pasta. I’m a saucy girl and want ALL the sauce, where my husband prefers a more dry pasta. Leaving the pasta and sauce separate ensures everyone gets what they want.
My favorite type of pasta for this is rotini. 12 ounces = approximately 4 1/2 cups of dried rotini pasta.
Full-fat cream cheese is recommended because I find that it melts better than lower fat versions.