Recipe: Low-Cal Southwestern Chicken Soup
Dinner Recipes, Lunch Recipes, Poultry Recipes, Soups + Stew Recipes
This low-cal Southwestern chicken soup recipe is so easy to make and a great way to sneak in veggies and fiber. This healthy gluten-free, dairy-free recipe has a little kick and is packed with Southwestern flavors. You can always leave out the chicken if you want a vegetarian version. Everyone loves this soup when I make it and I like that even the leftovers get eaten! Great for a football party or festive holiday get together with friends or family.
Total Time: 20 minutes
Yield: 5 serving(s)
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 4 cups chicken (or vegetable) broth
- 1 15-ounce can pure pumpkin
- 1 15-ounce can black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 cup frozen corn
- 1 cup salsa
- Shredded rotisserie chicken (optional)
- Optional Toppings
- Shredded cheese
- Sour cream
- Tortilla chips
- Sliced jalapeño
Directions
- Mix garlic and spices with 1/4 cup broth and bring to medium heat on the stove.
- Add the rest of the broth and bring to a simmer.
- Add pumpkin and mix well.
- Add remaining ingredients, stir and bring soup to a boil.
- Reduce heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes. Serve with toppings.
Nutrition Information Per Serving
Calories: 263
Protein: 13 gram(s)
Fat: 1 gram(s)
Carbohydrates: 34 gram(s)
Fiber: 15 gram(s)
Sugar: 7 gram(s)
Sodium: 436 milligram(s)
Recipe Cuisine: American
From the kitchen of: Get Healthy U
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78 Comments
N.F. on January 18, 2021 at 4:50 PM
This is delicious and simple, thank you. However if you’re really counting calories, this is pretty off, depending upon the size of the chicken used. I had one that yielded a pound of meat, and that brings the calorie count to 523 per serving
audrey on August 31, 2020 at 12:58 PM
What the serving size and amount?
Chris Freytag on September 15, 2020 at 1:22 PM
We calculated about 5 bowls of soup for this recipe!
Vee W on June 4, 2020 at 5:16 PM
I just made this soup for dinner tonight and ill tell ya what, its delicious! I used 2 cans of corn just because i wanted a little more corn in it. I definitely recommend! The only issue was that it definitely needs salt.
Kait on May 25, 2020 at 11:34 AM
Just made this recipe and it is so good! I added extra chili powder because I like spicy food! Definitely will make this again!
Trish Hykawy on October 28, 2019 at 10:37 AM
Hi Chris I'm wondering If the nutritional info is with the chicken and if so how much chicken?
Chris Freytag on August 18, 2020 at 10:23 AM
Hi Trish - it depends on what chicken you get. It's a full rotisserie chicken and you will shred the chicken. So the nutritional information would depend on which chicken you got!
Tinna on October 11, 2019 at 11:06 AM
So easy and so delicious!!
Dawn Owen on May 7, 2019 at 11:53 AM
A family favourite with myself, my husband and two teenage sons! The meal they all ask for - and the only one we all agree on. Three of us are vegetarians so I cook up a batch, reserving the stock and chicken. Once cooked, I transfer a 1/4 of the soup to another pan, add cooked chicken and chicken stock to that pan and to the larger pan I add vegetable stock and 'shredded' quorn fillets (pre cooked). Everyone happy and so easy to cook and adapt! 😊 Thank you for such a great recipe! p to another
Chris Freytag on May 31, 2019 at 9:24 AM
Wow this is awesome :) Thanks for sharing and I am so happy that it is one your entire family agrees on. It makes cooking a lot easier doesn't it!?!
Amanda on March 8, 2019 at 4:42 AM
This soup was a hit with my family!!! I will definitely add it in the rotation...Also, I substituted the salsa for tomato sauce just because I forgot to pick some up and it was still delicious!
Chris Freytag on March 13, 2019 at 3:14 PM
Amanda - So happy that this was a hit with your family! Always a miracle when you can find a meal that everyone in the family will eat :)
Nancy Sentipal on December 26, 2018 at 11:58 AM
This is one of my 'go-to' soup recipes. Easy, delicious and quick. I love pumpkin but you don't really taste the pumpkin. It adds fiber and thickening to what would otherwise be a broth based soup. Delicious!!
Princess Dinah on October 16, 2018 at 11:08 AM
I didn't have pumpkin so I ended up cooking a head of cauliflower until soft in the chicken broth and then blended it to make it thicker. It was great. Awesome recipe.