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Tomato Spinach Chicken Spaghetti - this recipe features pasta, fresh tomatoes, sun-dried tomatoes, fresh basil, spinach, garlic, and olive oil. It's a great Summer pasta recipe! Easy and quick! Only 30 minutes to make. A fantastic way to prepare chicken pasta using fresh vegetables!
This chicken pasta has a good variety of fresh ingredients: spinach, tomatoes, basil, garlic. Add chicken, sun-dried tomatoes and good quality olive oil to the mix - and you get a healthy and light dinner! So good! This recipe reminds me of tomato spinach shrimp pasta that is also very light and refreshing! This Mediterranean style meal is packed with vegetables, protein and good oils.
Why make this pasta dish
- When we think about chicken pasta, we usually picture a pasta dish with lots of cream sauce and white cheese. Like this chicken and bacon pasta with spinach and tomatoes in garlic cream sauce. This spinach tomato chicken pasta has no cream sauce. It's a healthy version of chicken pasta. And, it tastes like comfort food.
- This vibrant chicken spaghetti one of the most popular recipes on my site. It has been pinned 1.6 million times and visited by millions of people. I hope you try this Tomato and Spinach Chicken Spaghetti Pasta. See for yourself why it is so popular!
- Did I forget to mention that this pasta recipe is easy to make and takes only 30 minutes from start to finish? Not bad for a good-looking dish that tastes like comfort food! And, it looks beautiful, vibrant and colorful!
What makes this tomato spinach chicken pasta even more special?
- This recipe's main ingredients are fresh tomatoes, basil, garlic, and spinach.
- To make this pasta even more flavorful, I also used sun-dried tomatoes and red pepper flakes! They added so much flavor!
- Once the chicken pasta is completely cooked, I highly recommend that you add 3 tablespoons of high-quality olive oil. Stir it into the final pasta dish, off heat. It's so tasty and so good for you!
Variations
- Use spaghetti, fettuccine, linguine, angel hair pasta, or pappardelle pasta.
- Use skinless and boneless chicken thighs. Or, use skinless and boneless chicken breasts. Chop chicken meat into smaller pieces.
- This is the ideal recipe for trying out all sorts of artisanal pasta that we often see in the stores. Make this recipe with green spinach pasta, or orangy-looking sun-dried tomato fettuccine, artichoke pasta, etc. You get the idea! Use all those colorful unusual kinds of pasta we see in the stores in this recipe!
- Don't have spinach? Use other greens. Swiss chard or kale will work great in this recipe.
I hope you'll make this easy tomato spinach chicken spaghetti. It makes a truly Mediterranean dinner!
More chicken pasta with tomatoes
Love tomatoes in your pasta? Try these recipes:
- Chicken Zucchini Pasta with Tomatoes
- Spinach and Artichoke Chicken Pasta with Bacon and Tomatoes in Asiago Cream Sauce
- Pesto Chicken Tortellini with Tomatoes and Asparagus
Amazing chicken pasta recipes with spinach
Do you enjoy pasta with spinach? Take a look at these delicious family-friendly dinners:
- Spinach Artichoke Pasta with Chicken
- Chicken and Bacon Pasta Bake with Spinach Dip
- Creamy Mushroom and Spinach Pasta
- Italian Ravioli with Spinach and Artichokes
Tomato Spinach Chicken Spaghetti
Ingredients
- ¼ cup sun-dried tomatoes chopped, drained of oil
- 2 tablespoons olive oil drained from sun-dried tomatoes
- ½ lb chicken boneless and skinless (preferably, boneless skinless thighs), chopped
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 4 roma tomatoes chopped
- ¼ cup fresh basil leaves chopped
- 8 oz spinach fresh
- 3 garlic cloves chopped
- 8 oz spaghetti pasta
- 3 tablespoons olive oil (use high quality olive oil or oil from the sun-dried tomatoes jar)
Instructions
- Add chopped sun-dried tomatoes and 2 tablespoons of olive oil, drained from sun-dried tomatoes, to a large skillet, on medium-low heat.
- Add chopped chicken. I used boneless skinless chicken thighs and prefer to use them, but you can use chopped chicken breast, as well.
- Add red pepper flakes, and salt over all of the ingredients in the skillet.
- Cook on medium heat until the chicken is cooked through and no longer pink, about 5 minutes.
- Add chopped tomatoes, chopped fresh basil leaves, fresh spinach, and chopped garlic to the skillet with chicken. Cook on medium heat for about 3- 5 minutes until spinach wilts just a little, and tomatoes release some of their juices. Remove from heat.
- Taste, and add more salt to taste, if needed. Cover with lid and keep off heat.
- Cook pasta according to package instructions, until al dente.
- Drain. Add cooked and drained pasta to the skillet with the chicken and vegetables.
- Reheat on low heat, mix everything well, add more seasonings (salt and pepper), if desired. Remove from heat.
- At this point, when the pasta and vegetables are off heat, you can add more high-quality olive oil. It's optional but really tasty! Or you can add more olive oil from the jar from the sun-dried tomatoes.
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Nutrition
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Nice Recipe!
Do you think this would turn out alright if I cooked the chicken separately and then added to the mixture or if I had leftover cooked chicken breast?
I usually cook the chicken this way and add it in at the end. Just season it the way you like. I prefer an Italian seasoning blend. I have also made it using leftover rotisserie chicken. 🙂
Great suggestions!
I just cooked this meal and it is amazing! I never thought of mixing these ingredients together. Very tasty!
Thank you.
Muchas gracias.
You're welcome!
This looks amazing. I will try to make it tonight!
Thank you for the very easy to read/follow instructions.
You're very welcome! Enjoy! 🙂
Fixed for wife and my dinner tonight and it was so easy, yet so fantastically tasty. I used chicken breast and brown rice spaghetti (from Trader Joe's).
So happy you and your wife enjoyed this recipe! 🙂
I lOve! lOve! lOve! this dish.So easy and yUMMy!
Thank you! 🙂 So glad you enjoyed this recipe!
Has anyone ate this as a cold side.
In theory, you can eat this at room temperature (I wouldn't eat it cold as the olive oil would taste much better at room temperature). But this dish is best served hot or warm.
Just stalked your Instagram a bit ;), you really do love spaghetti/pasta Julia! Definitely trying this! 🙂
Ha-ha! Yes, I do! Enjoy the recipe! 🙂
Made this with my kids. Yummy, healthy and reasonable/small amount of pasta. We used a different shape pasta and added a small spiralized zucchini. Thank you.
Stefanie, you're very welcome! Yes, all kinds of pasta will work in this recipe. The addition of spiralized zucchini sounds delicious! If you like zucchini and pasta, you might like these recipes:
https://juliasalbum.com/parmesan-zucchini-tomato-chicken-spaghetti/
https://juliasalbum.com/zucchini-spaghetti-squash-with-pine-nuts/
Can you add tomato sauce
You could add tomato sauce but the flavor of the dish would be different, even though still good.
Just made this for the first time. We absolutely loved it. I have to follow a gluten free diet, so I used gluten free pasta. Will definitely be making this again!
So happy you liked this pasta! Yes, this is a perfect recipe for gluten free diet - all you need to substitute is gluten free pasta!
I’m trying this recipe tonight!
Enjoy!
Can't wait to try your chicken spaghetti dinner. Judith
Enjoy! 🙂
OMG, this is THE BEST dish I’ve ever tasted, and my husband swooned over it also! I would never have believed there could be so much flavor from the few simple ingredients. Thank you for this delicious recipe that makes you want to slurp up the sauce through a straw.
Linda, you're very welcome! So glad you enjoyed the recipe! 🙂
Lets taste it latter... I'm making tonight for dinner.
Enjoy!