This Chicken Alfredo Pasta Bake couldn’t get any easier. Â For one thing, I started with rotisserie chicken. Â More on that in a post coming soon.
To the rotisserie chicken, I added Alfredo sauce, sun-dried tomatoes and cooked pasta. Â Top it all with provolone cheese and pop it in the oven for a bit.
The kids loved this and so did I!
This casserole is creamy, cheesy and full of flavor.
In an unrelated note, check out that casserole dish. Â I use that dish all the time and it’s been in a lot of photos on the site. Â It’s one of those things I don’t really take notice of. Â I’m pretty sure that amber colored Visions piece isn’t being made any more. Â It was a wedding gift. Â Any other brides from the 1980s still using their Visions cookware?
Back to the recipe…here’s what you’ll need to make Chicken Alfredo Pasta Bake with Sun-Dried Tomatoes: Â
I had rotisserie chicken in the freezer that I used for this recipe. Â Any type of cooked chicken will work.
Easy Chicken Alfredo Pasta Bake with Sun-Dried Tomatoes
Ingredients
- 1 lb. penne pasta cooked
- 2-3 cups cooked chicken
- 2 jars 15 oz each Alfredo sauce
- 1 jar 8.5 oz sun-dried tomatoes in olive oil, drained and sliced
- 3 slices provolone cheese
Instructions
- Grease a casserole dish.
- Stir pasta, chicken, Alfredo sauce and tomatoes together in large bowl.
- Pour into casserole dish.
- Top with provolone cheese.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
I made this last week and it was good and super easy. Hubby and I didn’t care for the sun dried tomatoes but he recommended putting bacon pieces instead. It’s on my menu again this week with that change. Thanks for sharing! I love your blog. I come to it every week when making my menu!
Bacon! My boys would love that!
Do you drain the olive oil from the tomatoes?
Yes, I’ll edit the recipe to show that.
We had this last night and it was delicious! I used leftover turkey instead of chicken. I wonder if using drained diced tomatoes would work OK? I usually have a can of diced tomatoes on hand, and had to buy the sun dried tomatoes for the recipe.
I bet drained, diced would work great! I don’t usually keep sun-dried on hand either.
I just made this and would definitely recommend diced tomatoes or even brochetta.
Do you cook the pasta before? Or put it uncooked in the casserole dish?
Lisa, it gets cooked before adding it to the casserole.
I am going to make this tonight, but add Broccoli to it as well!!! 🙂
Could you freeze this?
Yes, I think this would freeze really well.
Looks great – thanks for the recipe – I will be trying it this week, with bacon & sun-dried tomatoes & yes, in my Visionware casserole dish, that I too got as a shower gift!!
That Visionware! I have an unopened box in my garage. I didn’t like that color so never used it, but then I hear it’s a great set, so I dont’ want to give it away! I’m going away for 3 days and plan to use your recipes – thanks in advance!
I never liked the color either, but I’m still using it after all these years! I don’t think it’s any better than any other casserole dish, so if you want to get rid of your unopened box you can do so guilt free 😉 The recipe, on the other hand, is a keeper!
What size dish? You said a “casserole” dish. Does that mean 9×13 or is that too big?
9×13
I still use that same dish :).
Trying this recipe out this week !! With bacon. My daughter is not a tomato fan.
Bacon sounds fantastic in this!
Can you make this in a crockpot?
Yes, assemble it all in the crockpot then cook on low for about 7 hours or high about 5 hours.
I am going to be doing your method of freezing the Costco chicken in 2 lb bags. Are you totally defrosting it in this recipe before cooking?
I defrost it nearly all the way. Just make sure to give it plenty of bake time to get hot through.
Made this s tonight Delicious Used 4 c. Califlower Alfredo sauce, and added peas ( broccoli would be great…. add enough sun dried tomatoes! Also used less pasta and 3 c. Chicken
Those sound like some great tweaks, Dorothy!
Can this recipe be made in the instantpot?
Only if you put it in a casserole dish that will fit inside the instant pot and then pour water around the outside of the dish. It’s not the best way to make it though. Otherwise, the pasta doesn’t have enough liquid for the pot to come to pressure.
Halfed the recipe for 2, two cups chicken added 1 cup mixed vegetables and left out tomatoes 1 jar alfredo sauce. It turned out really dry but good .Will try again with adjustments.
This was delicious! I couldn’t find the sun-dried tomatoes in a jar with oil so I just used a package of sun-dried tomatoes, dried and chopped up a little bit. This recipe would’ve also been absolutely delicious if I didn’t have any sun-dried tomatoes. I definitely plan on making it again and as a matter of fact, already had requests from my husband and his friends to make it a staple!
Also, I’m sorry I forgot to mention I didn’t use the jarred Alfredo sauce because I didn’t have any on hand so I used homemade Alfredo sauce which I got from eat at home also