Slow Cooker Peri Peri Chicken

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 breasts 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!

Nando's Peri-Peri 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".

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 your leftover chicken pasta to dry out. 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.
If you need some Nando's Peri-Peri Sauce, you can get some through the link in the "What is Nando's Peri-Peri Sauce?" section above.

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

Easy Slow Cooker Chile Colorado
Slow Cooker White Chicken Chili
Slow Cooker Beef Braciole
Slow Cooker Chicken Adobo
Slow Cooker Sausage Chickpea Soup

For anyone that already loves Nando's Peri-Peri sauce, or becomes as addicted to it as we are, you might be wondering what else you can do with that bottle of liquid gold. 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 store-bought chicken tenders. Basically, if you have a need for a flavorful, zesty sauce, you can't go wrong with Nando's!

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Slow Cooker Nando's Peri-Peri Chicken Pasta

Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 4 hrs

Total Time 4 hrs 10 mins

2 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breasts
1/4 tsp. dried oregano
black pepper
1 bay leaf
1 9.2 ounce bottle of Nando's Peri-Peri Sauce (can be purchased through link in post)
1.5 cups chicken broth
8 oz. full-fat cream cheese
grated parmesan cheese for garnish
12 oz. cooked pasta do not add to slow cooker

Place chicken breasts in the slow cooker and season them with black pepper and dried oregano. Drop a bay leaf in there and add the bottle of Nando's sauce, chicken broth, and cream cheese. Cook on low for 4 hours. Shred the chicken into chunks and stir the sauce, breaking up the cream cheese until the sauce is smooth. Taste for any needed salt or pepper.
I do not like adding my pasta to the sauce, I put pasta in individual bowls and pour the chicken and sauce over the pasta (see notes). Garnish with some parmesan cheese, and red pepper flakes if desired. Enjoy!

Keyword Chicken, Pasta, Slow Cooker