Chicken White Bean Salsa Soup Recipe | Simple Nourished Living (2024)

WW Recipe of the Day: Chicken, White Bean & Salsa Soup

I got the idea for this simple chicken white bean salsa soup from a Weight Watchers friend. While chatting one day, I mentioned that I needed an idea for how to use up the remains of a recently purchased rotisserie chicken.

She explained that she always made an easy soup with white beans and salsa from her leftover chicken. I jotted down the ingredients and immediately came home and stirred up a pot of her quick and easy chicken white bean salsa soup.

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You won't believe how deliciously satisfying this super simple chicken white bean salsa soup is. It's become a staple at our house, especially at this time of year, when quick and easy is the name of the game.

I decided it would be perfect this week as the recipe for our little group of bloggers working its way through Power Foods: 150 Delicious Recipes with the 38 Healthiest Ingredients (affiliate link) by Martha Stewart and the editors of Whole Living Magazine, where the featured ingredient is dried beans.

With so many more expensive, exotic super foods taking up most of the limelight these days, it's easy to forget thatbeans, one of the most basic, affordable, and widely available of foods, also provide myriad health benefits.

Health Benefits of Beans

Beans are high in antioxidants, fiber, protein, B vitamins, folate, iron, magnesium, potassium, copper and zinc. Research suggests that eating beans regularly may decrease your risk of diabetes, heart disease, colorectal cancer, and help with weight management, because they're so filling you can eat less but still feel satisfied.

A half-cup of beans has only about 100 calories.

Common varieties of beans include black beans, kidney beans, lima beans, navy beans, pinto beans, white beans, soybeans (edamame), and garbanzo beans (chickpeas).

You can soak and simmer dried varieties in a slow cooker all day, or use canned beans when time is short, which is what I tend to do most often.

Quick & Easy Chicken White Bean Salsa Soup

This quick and easy chicken white bean salsa soup is the kind of dish that barely qualifies as a recipe. Just stir together some chopped cooked chicken, chicken broth, salsa and a couple of cans of drained white beans and add chili powder and cumin to taste.

I call this maximum reward for minimal effort. No peeling, chopping or dicing vegetables. And no sauteeing so calories are reduced.

You can make it on the stove top or let it simmer in the slow cooker, whatever works best for you. And this soup can be modified in lots of ways too: Use black beans instead of white. Or green salsa instead of red. Add a can of corn. Stir in some cilantro. For spicier soup, use hot salsa. Or keep it family-friendly with mild. The choice is yours. Feel free to have fun and experiment.

How Many Calories and WW Points in this Chicken White Bean Soup?

According to my calculations, each serving has 159 calories and:

3 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
0 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
0 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
4 *PointsPlus (Old plan)

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Recipe sources:

• Power Foods: 150 Delicious Recipes with the 38 Healthiest Ingredients (affiliate link) by the Editors of Whole Living Magazine
• The Health Benefits of Beans (Dr Oz)

*Points® calculated by WW. *PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT each plan's ZeroPoint Foods (Green plan, Blue plan, Purple plan) using the WW Recipe Builder.

More Easy Healthy Recipes with Beans for Weight Watchers

• Easy Baked Bean Soup
• Skinny Black Bean Brownies
• Jamie Oliver Vegetable Soup with Beans
• Skinny Cheese and Black Bean Nachos

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