Cheese-filled tortellini, chicken, and broccoli in a creamy, Parmesan cheese sauce. Cheesy Chicken Broccoli Tortellini is an easy 20 minute dinner the whole family will love!
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Tortellini is one of my favorite ways to get dinner on the table fast. It cooks in about 5 minutes and who doesn’t love pasta filled with cheese?!
This Cheesy Chicken Broccoli Tortellini is all cooked in one pot and is ready in about 20 minutes (as long as you already have chicken cooked – I recommend a rotisserie chicken!)
It’s cheese tortellini, chicken, and broccoli in a sauce made from cream cheese and Parmesan cheese.
Your whole family is going to love this recipe!
Ingredients
- Olive oil – you can use whatever cooking oil you prefer.
- Garlic
- Low-sodium chicken broth – if you use regular chicken broth, make sure to taste the finished dish before adding salt.
- Milk
- Cheese tortellini – you can use fresh or frozen tortellini in this recipe.
- Fresh broccoli
- Cream cheese – this makes for the creamiest sauce!
- Grated Parmesan cheese
- Cooked chicken – you can cook your own chicken or pick up a rotisserie chicken to make dinner really easy!
- Salt and black pepper
Instructions
- Cook garlic. Cook garlic in olive oil for 30 seconds.
- Add liquid. Add chicken broth and milk. Bring to a boil.
- Cook tortellini. Add tortellini and cook 2 minutes.
- Add broccoli. Add broccoli and continue to cook for about 3 minutes or so, stirring as needed, until tortellini is cooked and broccoli is bright green.
- Add cheese. Lower heat and stir in cream cheese and Parmesan, until melted.
- Add chicken. Stir in cooked chicken.
- Season and serve. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve with extra Parmesan on top.
How Long Is It Good For?
This chicken tortellini will be good for up to 3 days in the fridge. Make sure to store it in an airtight container.
You can reheat it in the microwave or on the stove. If the sauce has thickened too much, you can add milk or chicken broth to loosen it up again.
Tips & Tricks
- I used fresh tortellini for this recipe so if you use frozen tortellini, you may need to add an extra minute or 2 to the cooking time. Just check the package instructions to be sure.
- You can also use frozen broccoli but may need to add a couple minutes to that as well.
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Cheesy Chicken Broccoli Tortellini
Cheese-filled tortellini, chicken, and broccoli in a creamy, Parmesan cheese sauce. Cheesy Chicken Broccoli Tortellini is an easy 20 minute dinner the whole family will love!
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 ½ cups low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 cup milk
- 1 (20 ounce) package cheese tortellini
- 3 cups fresh broccoli, roughly chopped
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
- ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 cups cooked chicken, diced
- salt and black pepper
Instructions
- Heat olive oil over medium-high heat in a large pot. Add garlic and cook 30 seconds until fragrant.
- Add chicken broth and milk. Bring to a boil.
- Add tortellini and cook 2 minutes.
- Add broccoli and continue to cook for about 3 minutes or so, stirring as needed, until tortellini is cooked and broccoli is bright green.
- Lower heat and stir in cream cheese and Parmesan, until melted.
- Stir in cooked chicken.
- Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Serve with extra Parmesan on top.
Notes
If using frozen tortellini, they make take an extra minute or 2. Just check the instructions on the package.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 259Total Fat: 13gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 63mgSodium: 419mgCarbohydrates: 17gFiber: 3gSugar: 4gProtein: 20g
This looks fantastic, I cannot wait to make it! Thank you for sharing!
This is just the thing for our next family dinner. I love the addition of the broccoli for more flavor and health benefits.
This Cheesy Chicken Broccoli Tortellini needs to happen at my house very soon!!
I love the cream cheese in this, so good. Will make it agian.
did you have to boil the tortellini before adding it into the pot ?
Love how creamy are these tortellini. Must make for Sunday lunch!
This is such an amazing meal! My family was really impressed!
So easy cheesy and delicious! I love this tortellini!
Just curious I know it doesn’t say but do you pre cook the tortellini’s or do you just throw it in the pot
It all goes into the pot together. 🙂
Amazing! 10/10 picky kids even loved it. I doubled the recipe 🙂
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Can I use Chicken broth instead of Milk in this recipe but still add the cream cheese??
Do you precook the broccoli or put it in raw
How did you cook the chicken? It looks delicious!
How did you cook your chicken?
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I hope this will for my sister in law to lose her weight. Thanks for the information and ill forward this to everyone. https://bit.ly/3CBjhlv
I made this tonight. My boyfriend and I really liked it. (Halving it was perfect)
I added garlic powder, Italian seasoning and a little bit of lemon juice to add flavor.
I made this tonight, delicious, I did add some extra seasoning like Italian onion powder season salt. Came out fantastic will definitely be making again. Thanks for the recipe.
I made this tonight. It was incredible. And so quick. Used rotisserie chicken.
I made this tonite absolutely delish. I used canned chicken and it turned out better than i thought it would. thank you!!
Chicken is good. Broccoli is bad. Put em together tho, and you’ll get a clutzy husband who spills it all over the floor. Well, not all of it. Enough tho that we got a floor refinishing about a week later. However, we still held enough to try it. AMAZING. I didn’t drop it the next night and it was just as amazing.
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Hi, I made this tonight & I feel like the sauce was mostly absorbed and it was so thick. is that normal for the recipe?
I made this yesterday. my husband and I hated it. The cream cheese ruins the whole thing, complete waste of time and groceries 😒.
I don’t like the taste of cream cheese what else could I add instead?
Why doesn’t it say how much milk, oil, garlic, or chicken broth to use?!?!?????
Hi! If you scroll down to the recipe card, it has all the info you need. Let me know if you try it!