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Copycat Cheesecake Factory Skinnylicious Chicken Pasta

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I love when restaurants have a healthy menu – and The Cheesecake Factory has a whole Skinnilicious menu! One of my favorites is the Skinnilicious Chicken Pasta and I decided to make it at home!

This healthy chicken pasta is pretty simple – chicken breast with a very light breading then toss it with marinara, basil and tomatoes! But it’s delicious and on the table in 20 minutes! Yes! Winning!

Here’s a pic of the Skinnilicious Chicken Pasta dish at the Cheesecake Factory! 

So what ingredients are in the Skinnilicious Chicken Pasta? 

The ingredients are pretty simple: pasta, chicken, fresh tomato, marinara and fresh basil. They list that it has Penne but that pic is Rigatoni – so let’s just go with a tubular pasta! 😉 

How many calories in Skinnilicious Chicken Pasta? 

The restaurant version has 590 calories – which is still “Skinnilicious” – but mine only has 531 calories! One serving of pasta is 2 oz – and that’s a little skimpy – so you could add more pasta – or cook two chicken breasts instead of one – and still have less calories than the restaurant version!  

How to make Skinnilicious Chicken Pasta

This is definitely a quick and easy recipe but you have to juggle the parts all at once.

  • Start your water boiling
  • Then pound out your chicken with a meat tenderizer.
  • Once you put the pasta in the boiling water – start sauteeing the chicken. (or pop it in the air fryer for 10 min)
  • While those are cooking – dice up a tomato, heat up your marinara sauce and chop your fresh basil.
  • Then drain the pasta, dice your chicken and toss with the sauce, tomato and basil! It only takes about 10 minutes!

Favorite Copycat Recipes 

The first ten years of my blog were filled with restaurant reviews – so I love remaking some of my favorite dishes at home! Here are some of my favorite copycat recipes:   

Olive Garden’s Oven Baked Tortelloni Alfredo

Olive Garden’s Chicken Scampi

Red Lobster’s Crab Alfredo

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Copycat Cheesecake Factory Skinnilicious Chicken Pasta

The Cheesecake Factory really does have the most gigantic menu of any restaurant! I love their Skinnilicious menu because I choose to go healthy on my entree and then splurge on cheesecake for dessert! That works – right? This Skinnilicious Chicken Pasta will satisfy you for sure and still leave room for a little splurge on dessert.
5 from 2 votes
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Entree
Cuisine American
Servings 2 people
Calories 531 kcal

Ingredients
  

Instructions
 

  • heat water on stove and boil penne
    4 oz whole wheat penne
  • when you add penne to the water, heat oil in a non-stick skillet
    1 tbsp olive oil
  • rinse chicken breast and pat dry. pound with smooth side of a meat tenderizer to even thickness
    1 chicken breast
  • coat both sides of chicken with flour and garlic herb seasoning
    2 tbsp flour, 2 tsp garlic & herb seasoning
  • place chicken in hot skillet and cook for 3-5 minutes, flip and cook 3-5 minutes more (temp to 165)  (or air fry at 350 for 10 min)
  • while chicken is cooking, dice tomato and heat 2 cups marinara sauce on stovetop
    1/2 tomato, 2 cups marinara
  • drain pasta and remove chicken from skillet
  • slice chicken into bite sized pieces
  • chop fresh basil
    5-6 basil leaves
  • in large bowl, toss pasta, chicken, marinara, fresh tomato and fresh basil and split into two bowls 

Nutrition

Serving: 0.5chicken & pastaCalories: 531kcalCarbohydrates: 64.1gProtein: 35.9gFat: 15.7gSaturated Fat: 2.1gCholesterol: 77mgSodium: 582mgPotassium: 861mgFiber: 9.6gSugar: 11.9gCalcium: 58mgIron: 4mg
Keyword cheesecake factory, chicken, copycat, healthy, pasta
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