This slow-cooker cheesy manicotti is easy enough for dinner anytime, but it’s also delicious enough to be the shining star of your next get-together.
Slow-Cooker Cheesy Chicken Manicotti
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 2 hr 30 min
- Servings 7
- Ingredients 9
Ingredients
- 2 cups finely chopped cooked chicken
- 1 container (15 oz) whole-milk ricotta cheese
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/2 cup finely chopped fresh basil leaves
- 14 uncooked manicotti shells (8 oz)
- 1 jar (25.5 oz) Muir Glen™ organic tomato basil pasta sauce
- 3/4 cup water
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese (8 oz)
Instructions
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Step1In medium bowl, mix chicken, ricotta cheese, garlic salt and red pepper flakes; stir in 1/4 cup of the basil. Spoon into quart-sized resealable food-storage plastic bag. Cut 3/4 inch tip off bag. Pipe filling into manicotti shells.
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Step2Spray 5-quart oval slow cooker with cooking spray. In medium bowl, mix pasta sauce and water. Spread about one-third of the sauce mixture in slow cooker. Place 7 of the filled manicotti shells in pasta sauce. Sprinkle with 1 cup of the mozzarella cheese. Spoon another one-third of the sauce mixture over shells. Top with remaining 7 filled manicotti shells; sprinkle with remaining 1 cup mozzarella cheese. Top with remaining one-third of sauce mixture.
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Step3Cover; cook 2 to 3 hours on High heat setting or until shells are tender. Serve with remaining 1/4 cup basil.
Nutrition
440
Calories
18g
Total Fat
31g
Protein
37g
Total Carbohydrate
7g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 440
- Calories from Fat
- 160
- Total Fat
- 18g
- 28%
- Saturated Fat
- 10g
- 48%
- Trans Fat
- 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 85mg
- 29%
- Sodium
- 670mg
- 28%
- Potassium
- 210mg
- 6%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 37g
- 12%
- Dietary Fiber
- 3g
- 12%
- Sugars
- 7g
- Protein
- 31g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 30%
- 30%
- Vitamin C
- 4%
- 4%
- Calcium
- 40%
- 40%
- Iron
- 15%
- 15%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 2 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 1 1/2 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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