I updated the photos for this recipe and added a video. 9/12/16
Creamy Italian Chicken was fun make again. I almost forgot about how great this recipe was and it will be on the recipe rotation from now on. The cream of chicken soup and cream cheese makes the most delicious gravy. It is good on top of egg noodles, rice, mashed potatoes, and if you’re low carb use cauliflower mashed potatoes.
Slow Cooker or Instant Pot
If you have a Slow Cooker or Instant Pot you can use either one. For Slow Cooker cook on low for 6 hours, take the chicken out and shred. Put the chicken back into the slow cooker and mix that around until the gravy is all covered in it. For the Instant Pot, set the pressure cook time to 20 minutes.
WW Points
This creamy Italian Chicken recipe is a good example of why you shouldn’t use the nutrition info calculator that WW provides to figure out points for recipes you see online. The chicken is calculated into the nutrition info so of course, it’s going to be wrong. Chicken is a zero point food. The nutrition info gives you 8 points per serving and the recipe builder gives 3 on the blue and purple plan.
Recipe adapted Life as a Loft House
Crock Pot Creamy Italian Chicken – Weight Watchers
- Yield: 8 to 10 1x
Ingredients
- 3–4 skinless boneless chicken breasts
- 1 (.7oz) envelope of Good Seasons Italian Dressing Mix
- 20 oz Campbells Condensed 98% Fat-Free Cream of Chicken Soup (2 10oz cans)
- 4 oz low fat cream cheese
- Egg Noodles or Rice, to serve with
Instructions
- Spray crock pot with non-stick spray. Place the chicken breasts in crock pot, and sprinkle the Italian dressing mix over the top. Pour the cream of chicken soups over chicken, and then spread the cubes of cream cheese evenly over all.
- Cover and cook on Low heat for 6 hours. (OR on High for 3 hours) Remove lid and stir mixture together. Cut chicken into bite-size pieces. (If the sauce seems too thick, you can thin it out with a little milk or water)
- Serve chicken and sauce over cooked egg noodles or rice. Enjoy
- 3/4 cup serving size for italian chicken (not noodles)
Notes
myWW points: Blue:3; Green: 5; Purple: 3 (italian chicken)
Points are calculated with the WW recipe builder app and not using the nutrition info.
1 cup of egg noodles is 6 points (every plan)
- Category: Easy
- Method: Instant Pot
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 3/4 cup
- Calories: 275
- Sugar: 3
- Fat: 14
- Saturated Fat: 6
- Unsaturated Fat: 0
- Trans Fat: 2
- Carbohydrates: 12
- Protein: 23
Keywords: creamy italian chicken
Jenna says
I never use the nutrition info to figure out points for my recipes and I even stated what I used in the notes section of the recipe. The nutrition calculator doesn’t calculate zero point foods correctly like chicken. The chicken is added into the nutrition info so of course, it’s going to be wrong. Don’t really understand why people need to argue about this?
Katy says
Agreed that the nutrition information posted gives 8 points on the Blue plan per current app calculator if you’re trying to enter as a single serving. I went into the app and built the recipe myself out of the ingredients and it tells me I get 3 pts per serving, for 8 servings. Simple math of dividing the 20 oz of soup by 8 servings gives you about 1/3 of a cup sauce per serving. I made it a little easier on myself switched serving to 6 and it is 5 pts. If this helps anyone.
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Jenna says
Unfortunately, I can not see what you entered into the recipe builder and that does sound off. Double-check you entered everything correctly and the number of servings the recipe makes.
Brittany Pataky says
When I put this in my WW app it came up as 8 and I’m on purple. What did I do wrong?
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Jenna says
It’s kind of like how you make gravy. Add in some cornstarch and wait till warms up and starts to get thick.
Christina says
It seems a little bit like soup how could I make it thicker?
Jenna says
The proper method for cooking frozen chicken in the slow cooker is to cook it in some water covered. You can do it that way but make sure to drain the water out after adding the rest of the ingredients.
Amber says
Can you put chicken in frozen?