Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Soup

Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Soup
Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 6
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 119.5
  • Total Fat: 2.3 g
  • Cholesterol: 35.1 mg
  • Sodium: 90.8 mg
  • Total Carbs: 8.1 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 1.9 g
  • Protein: 16.1 g

Introduction

Did you know that just three buffalo wings have 10 grams of fat? (Who eats just three?) This soup has all the spice, creaminess, and tang you crave--with a fraction of the fat.

Ingredients

1 onion, diced, about 1 cup
2 stalks celery, diced
1 medium carrot, diced
2 cloves garlic, sliced
1 hot pepper,* deseeded and chopped
1 1/2 cups no salt added diced tomatoes
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
12 ounces chicken breast, diced
3 cups homemade or low-salt chicken stock
1 tablespoon hot sauce

For garnish:
2 tablespoons blue cheese, crumbled
1 celery stalk, thinly sliced

* choose a pepper that's right for your heat preference. An Anaheim pepper is milder and that's what I used in this recipe.


Directions

Place all the soup ingredients except for the hot sauce in a slow cooker, and stir to combine. Cover and cook on high for 3 hours or low for 6.

Before serving, stir in the hot sauce.
Top each bowl with 1 teaspoon blue cheese and chopped celery.

This soup is ""medium"" in terms of heat.
For ""hot"" soup: Choose a hotter pepper, and leave the seeds in the pepper.
For ""mild"" soup: Stir 1/4 cup Greek yogurt into 1/2 cup of the hot soup, then stir the soup-yogurt mixture into the rest of the soup. (This step prevents the yogurt from curdling.) The yogurt will add about 25 calories and 1.6 grams of fat to each serving--not calculated in this recipe.


Serving Size: Makes 6 cups.

Photo credit: PhotoKitchen.net

Number of Servings: 6


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