10-Minute Healthy Macaroni With Chicken (One-Pan) - Her Highness, Hungry Me (2024)

This is a healthy 10-Minute shredded chicken macaroni recipe! Use leftovers in 10 minutes to make this easy pasta dish – it’s a super tasty and quick healthy dinner recipe that the entire family will love as well! Made in one pan and perfect for lunch and dinner, and even my picky eating toddler devoured it!

Update 2020: I made this delicious macaroni recipe again and it’s the best! I’m updating the pictures and I even made a video to show you how easy this is. I, honestly, could eat this shredded chicken pasta every day, but it’s still pasta and I still struggle with getting my blood sugar under control, even though I’ve already lost the baby weight. What is this? The hour or tell me your life story? Let’s get back to what I wrote last year about this recipe…

I know I talk about my child a lot here, but if you saw his face and heard the noise he was making while he was eating this, you’d probably melt and be telling me about it too. It’s the cutest thing, when he goes “Mmmmmm” and rubs his belly. And he’s not cute just because I’m his mom and have to say it, he’s the cutest thing ever.

And it’s even cuter, because he hasn’t always been crazy about the food I made him. When he was younger he’d often pretend he’s vomiting when I’d give him an omelette or, God forbid, rice.

But he did love the fatty lasagna we get from the Italian nearby. Like it’s so special and not at all disgusting and cheesy and buttery and delicious. I’m not bitter. You’re bitter.

So this is my attempt to compete with the greasy lasagna. And honestly, I think I won. This is so delicious, so much flavor, super easy to make, quick, not that fat and actually healthy!

Macaroni With Chicken Ingredients

Macaroni. You can honestly use any type of quick cooking pasta here, but I used macaroni that cooks in 3 minutes and we were all happy about it. You can make this as healthy as you want, by now I’ve even seen cauliflower pasta.

How To Make Healthy Macaroni With Chicken

Remove the bones from the chicken thighs
Add chopped tomatoes, garlic, olive oil and the chicken to a non-stick pan and cook at medium-high for 3-4 minutes until the tomatoes start looking like sauce
Add some water (about 1/4 cup), dill, a pinch of salt and the macaroni. These should be covered with the sauce to cook properly, add a little more water if needed.
Cook until the macaroni is cooked and stir in the mozzarella cheese.
Let the cheese melt and serve immediately!

And that’s it! Pretty easy, super quick, not too many dishes to wash and super yummy.