Creamy Lemon Pasta with Chicken Easy One Pot Recipe is a vibrant summer pasta dish. All you’ll need are fresh lemons, cubed chicken, heavy cream, spices, and linguini. You’ll also need a large Dutch Oven. Sauté everything in the Dutch Oven, add the pasta, and you’ll be on your way to a satisfying pasta recipe in no time!
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Why you'll love this Recipe
- This recipe has juicy chicken
- The whole family will love it!
- This recipe only uses one pot and only five ingredients
🍋 Ingredients For Creamy Chicken Pasta
🍋 Ingredients for lemon parmesan pasta with chicken
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Grassfed Butter: Use a high quality EVOO that's preferably organic. They spray olive trees heavily with pesticide. Grassfed butter is always the way to go.
- Chicken Tenders or Chicken Breasts: (Opt for organic chicken or air-chilled chicken whenever you can)
- Fresh Lemons: (fresh lemon juice and lemon slices) Use Meyer lemons for this recipe if you can find them, they are a sweeter lemon in the lemon family
- Heavy Cream: Heavy cream makes this the most rich pasta recipe, but you can also opt for half-n-half or a dairy free milk of choice. Coconut milk makes a great dairy-free option
- Chicken bone broth: You can also use chicken stock (these are the base of this recipe and what we use to cook the pasta. There is no water in this recipe.
- Linguini: Pastas are heavily sprayed so use an organic pasta whenever you can. Fettuccine is also a great option or even Penne
- Yellow Onion: You can also do white onion or red onion, but yellow onion gives is that subtle sweetness
- Spices: Paprika, Himalayan Sea-salt, black pepper, onion salt, garlic salt, and seasoning salt
- Fresh herbs: I love adding fresh thyme and tarragon
See full recipe card for instructions and quantities below
Top Tip: Why Grass-fed Butter?
The golden yellow color, the richness, and the fact that the cows are living outside, eating pasture raised grass the way nature intended. Try conventional butter next to grassfed butter and you will immediately taste (and see) the difference!)
🍋 How to make Creamy Lemon Chicken Pasta
- Step 1: In a large Dutch Oven, add the EVOO, chopped onion and saute the onion until translucent over low heat. Slice the chicken breast into cubes.
- Step 2: Add the cubed chicken and season it with the Himalayan sea-salt, black pepper, onion salt, garlic salt, paprika, and seasoning salt, and saute over medium heat for 8-10 minutes until the chicken is golden brown on all sides. Place the sliced lemon wedges on top of chicken and cover the Dutch oven and simmer on low heat for 5-minutes.
- Step 3: Once the chicken is cooked, remove the lemon chicken from the Dutch oven and set aside.
- Step 4: Pour the chicken bone broth and heavy cream into the Dutch oven and add the dry linguine pasta. Add the chicken bone broth and heavy cream. Bring the chicken stock to a boil and then bring the heat down to medium heat.
- Step 5: Cover and simmer for 10-minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally so that the pasta doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan.
- Step 6: Once the pasta is cooked to Al-dente, add the cooked chicken and lemons back into the Dutch oven and stir everything until combined.
Step 7: Add in the parmesan and combine again until the lemon chicken pasta. is nice and cheesy. Serve, eat, and enjoy!
Variations for Lemon Chicken and Pasta
- You can add in red pepper flakes, red pepper to bring out the lemon flavor even more and give this pasta dish a bite!
- Add loads of lemon zest with your cup grated parmesan
- You want to make sure to use high-quality freshly grated parmesan cheese. I love using the parmesan cheese from Trader Joe's as it ships straight from Italy.
- Use a garlic press and add fresh garlic to this easy pasta dish
- Lemon pepper seasoning makes great flavor
- Don't feel like cooking the chicken first? Skip that step and pick up a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store. Hey-o! this meal just got easier!
- Add in sun-dried tomatoes for a Marry me chicken lemon pasta twist!
- Add in some peas for a creamy lemon pasta with chicken and peas
Tips!
- My Creamy Lemon Chicken Pasta dish makes delicious leftovers too! Simply reheat in some EVOO in a pan and you’re all set!
- This dinner only takes 15-minutes to make. Talk about a perfect meal for busy weeknights.
- Add green beans for veggie twist
- Use Italian seasoning for even more flavor
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Creamy Lemon Pasta With Chicken
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 2 tablespoon grass-fed butter
- ½ yellow onion, chopped
- 1 pound organic chicken tenders, cubed
- 1 tablespoon Himalayan Sea-salt
- 1 tablespoon black pepper
- ½ tbsp onion salt
- ½ tablespoon garlic salt
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- ½ tablespoon seasoning salt
- 2 Meyer Lemons, sliced
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- 1 cup heavy cream or half-n-half
- 2 cups chicken bone broth
- 1 package linguini
Instructions
- In a large Dutch Oven, add the EVOO, grass-fed butter, chopped onion and saute the onion over low heat until translucent. Slice the chicken breast into cubes.
- Add the cubed chicken and season it with the Himalayan sea-salt, black pepper, onion salt, garlic salt, paprika, and seasoning salt, and saute over medium heat for 8-10 minutes until the chicken is golden brown on all sides. Place the sliced lemons on top of chicken and cover the Dutch oven and simmer on low heat for 5-minutes.
- Once the chicken is cooked, remove the lemon chicken from the Dutch oven and set aside.
- Pour the chicken bone broth and heavy cream into the Dutch oven and add the dry linguine pasta. Add the chicken bone broth and the heavy cream. Bring the bon broth to a boil and then turn down to medium heat.
- Cover and simmer for 10-minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally so that the pasta doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan.
- Once the pasta is cooked to Al-dente, add the cooked chicken and lemons back into the Dutch oven and stir everything until combined.
- Add in the parmesan and combine again until the lemon chicken pasta. is nice and cheesy. Serve, eat, and enjoy!
Notes
- Add extra lemon zest for even more flavor!
Megan
such and easy recipe, tasty and those Meyer lemons are magical. Thanks again Genevieve.
Jeanine
This is another beautiful Lemon recipe I am going to have to try, Pasta is a staple in our house at least twice a week and the quicker the dish the better...I love the quick Pasta dishes the best...
Mihaela | https://theworldisanoyster.com/
Lemon is my favourite flavour, and I have it every day. I need to try your recipe and use the zest as well! It sounds like an excellent dinner for tonight; thanks for posting it!:)
Ellen
Looks like a great recipe! Do you cook the pasta before adding it to the Dutch Oven? Thank you.
Genevieve
Hi Ellen! You can cook the pasta before adding it to the Dutch Oven or you can cook the pasta in the Dutch oven in the bone broth and continually stir it so it doesn't stick to the pan. I hope that helps! 🙂
Juyali
Tried this for dinner, and the creamy lemon sauce was so refreshing, and the pasta soaked up all the flavor. Definitely making it again!
Marie
I love a fresh and creamy pasta made in a single pot! So fresh! I ve added a few leaves of fresh basil to mine!
Andrea
This chicken pasta was zesty, rich, and full of flavor without feeling heavy. My husband went back for seconds and said it reminded him of our favorite Italian bistro!
Nisha
The pasta was so creamy delicious, comforting and full of flavor. Love that it is a one pot dish and can be made so easily.
Nicole Kendrick
I love the zingy citrus note with the creamy suce, and all that creamy chicken. It's really good!
Criss
Tried this creamy lemon pasta with chicken and it was so delicious, loved how easy it was to make in just one pot