Weight Watchers Tuscan Chicken Pasta

This Weight Watchers Tuscan Chicken Pasta is a delicious and easy weeknight meal that your entire family will love! I’ve altered this popular dish to be a healthy, WW recipe without sacrificing the creamy and indulgent pasta dish.

If you’re losing weight with WW, this recipe is filling and satisfying. I calculate points based on the ingredients that I use, not by nutrition information. This is the most accurate way to count, as stated by Weight Watchers.

Where’s the recipe?

I have readers of all skill levels in the kitchen. To better serve all of my readers, I include a ton of helpful tips and information in my healthy recipe posts. If you would like to get right to the recipe and skip these tips, please scroll to the bottom where you’ll find the easy to print recipe for this WW Tuscan Chicken Pasta.  

Ingredients in this Weight Watchers Tuscan Chicken Pasta:

• Sun-dried tomatoes (without oil): If you’d prefer, you can swap out the sun-dried tomatoes with halved grape tomatoes.
• Seasonings & Spices
• Chicken: While I prefer chicken, you can substitute with turkey and keep your WW points relatively low. 
• Whole Wheat Pasta: It’s less processed and takes more energy for your body to break down (which keeps you full for longer!).
• Low-sodium chicken broth: If you don’t have broth on hand, you can use water. 
• Fat free cottage cheese and fat free Greek yogurt: When blended together, this combination replicates heavy cream while adding protein and keeping your points down. To keep this a Weight Watchers friendly recipe, use fat free.
• Spinach: If you don’t care for spinach, I recommend either cutting it into small pieces so it’s hidden or skipping it entirely.
• Fresh basil
• Parmesan cheese: Grab a wedge of fresh and grate it yourself.

Instant Pot Instructions:

1. Lightly spray pot with olive oil or cooking spray and set the to sauté. Once the pot is hot, add tomatoes, garlic, Italian seasoning, and pepper. Cook until fragrant, and stir using a wooden spoon or spatula. 
2. Add chicken and brown on all sides for 3-5 minutes. This will prevent the chicken from sticking together when under pressure. 
3. Add your whole wheat noodles and chicken broth to the pot. Stir and pat down pasta, making sure the pasta is mostly covered in liquid. 
4. If you need to add more water/broth, you can do so now.
5. Close and lock the lid and turn the pressure valve to Sealing. Select Pressure Cook (high) and set the cook time for 3 minutes.
6. While the pasta is cooking, blend the Greek yogurt and cottage cheese together in a blender until smooth and set aside.
7. When the cook time is complete, quick release the pressure by moving the black valve on your pot from Sealing to Venting. Be careful, there will be steam that releases. When it’s done releasing pressure, remove the lid.
8. Drain any extra liquid before adding more ingredients, or your finished recipe will be watery.
9. Add spinach and fresh basil to the pot and stir until the leaves have wilted. Allow the recipe to cool for a few minutes so the dairy doesn’t curdle.
10. Add the parmesan along with the blended yogurt and cottage cheese, and stir gently until evenly mixed. 

Slow Cooker Instructions

1. Lightly spray a skillet with cooking oil, then add tomatoes, garlic, Italian herbs, and pepper. Sauté over high heat for 30 seconds or so.
2. Next, add your cubed chicken and brown for 1-2 minutes until the chicken no longer sticks together.
3. Place all of the contents of your skillet into your crockpot, and add the chicken broth.
4. Cover the pot and cook on high for 2-3 hours or low for 4-5 hours to cook the chicken. 
5. During the last 30 minutes of the cook time, stir in the whole wheat pasta and make sure all the pasta is covered in liquid. If you need to add more liquid, do so now. *You can also cook the pasta separately and add it in after.
6. Once the cook time is complete, drain any excess liquid and add spinach and basil. Stir until spinach is wilted.
7. Blend cottage cheese and Greek yogurt in a blender until smooth, and add the mixture to the Crockpot.  
8. Stir in parmesan cheese and serve immediately topped with fresh basil. 

Stovetop Instructions

1. Lightly spray a deep skillet or large pot with cooking oil, then add your tomatoes, garlic, Italian herbs, and pepper. Sauté over high heat for 30 seconds.
2. Next, add cubed chicken breast and brown for 1-2 minutes until the chicken no longer sticks together.
3. Add the pasta and chicken broth to the skillet. Stir and make sure all the noodles are covered. Once the broth begins to boil, cover your skillet and reduce heat to medium. Simmer for 12-15 minutes, stirring occasionally. 
4. Once the pasta is cooked, add spinach and basil. Stir until spinach is wilted, then drain any excess liquid from the pan. 
5. Blend cottage cheese and Greek yogurt in a blender until smooth, and add to the pan.  
6. Stir in parmesan cheese and serve immediately topped with fresh basil.

Recipe Tips

• Cut your chicken into one-inch cubes or ½ inch thick slices so that it cooks quickly and evenly. 
• If you’re using dried basil, you only need 1 tsp. Add it during step one along with the rest of the spices. 
• For meal prep, cook per the instructions and refrigerate or freeze in individual serving size containers. 
• Blending the cottage cheese and Greek yogurt together in a blender will remove the chunks from the cottage cheese and reduce the tang from the Greek yogurt. A blender or food processor is important in this recipe, otherwise your finished recipe will have chunks in it and taste a little more like Greek yogurt.

Weight Watchers Points

This creamy Tuscan Chicken Pasta is one of my favorite Weight Watchers Chicken Recipes and makes 6 equal servings (approximately 1 1/3 cup servings). Each serving counts as 7 Blue Plan Points | 10 Green Plan Points | 2 Purple Plan Points.

Divide the recipe into 6 equal servings for your most accurate portion size–especially if you use different shaped pasta, as they all expand to a different size when cooked.

Looking for more Weight Watchers Meals?

In addition to this pasta, there are a ton of delicious Weight Watchers dinner recipes (including a ton of Weight Watchers pasta recipes) right here on this site.

Weight Watchers Instant Pot Recipes:

• Instant Pot Egg Roll in a Bowl
• Swedish Meatballs 
• Chicken Alfredo
• Philly Cheesesteak Pasta
• Homemade Hamburger Helper
• Healthy White Chicken Chili

Weight Watchers Crock Pot Recipes:

• Carnitas
• Pork Chops with Pears
• Mississippi Pot Roast
• White Chicken Chili