Slow Cooker Loaded Potato and Cauliflower Soup
This Slow Cooker Loaded Potato and Cauliflower Soup gives you all the flavors you love from a loaded baked potato with a lighter twist! Replacing some of the potatoes in this soup with cauliflower lowers the calories and carbs without sacrificing that thick, rich potato texture or flavor. Plus, the soup is mixed with sour cream and topped with cheese and bacon, so what’s not to love? I love how easily this soup comes together in the slow cooker, you just chop everything, toss it in the slow cooker, and then blend when it’s done and stir in the last few ingredients. It’s a cinch! I love eating creamy, hearty soups in the winter, they’re so warm and comforting. Better still, a 1 & ¼ cup serving of this Slow Cooker Loaded Potato and Cauliflower Soup is just 209 calories or 5 WW Points! To view your current WW Points for this recipe and track it in the WW app or site, click here!
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Slow Cooker Loaded Potato and Cauliflower Soup
Ingredients
- 2 lbs peeled and chopped russet potatoes
- 1 lb raw cauliflower florets, for me this was about the amount of florets from a medium head of cauliflower
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- ¾ cup chopped celery
- 6 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 sliced scallions, divided
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 4 cups reduced sodium fat free chicken broth
- 1 cup fat free half and half
- ½ cup fat free sour cream
- 8 slices center cut bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 4 oz 50% reduced fat sharp cheddar cheese, shredded (I use Cabot)
Instructions
- Place the potatoes, cauliflower, onion, celery, garlic, one of the scallions, paprika, thyme, salt and pepper into your slow cooker and stir together. Pour in the broth. Cook on high for 4 hours or on low for 8 hours until the vegetables are tender.
- Using an immersion blender, blend the ingredients until smooth (if you don’t have an immersion blender, you can transfer the soup in batches into a regular blender until smooth and then return to the slow cooker pot). Add the half and half and sour cream and stir until thoroughly combined.
- Top each serving with ½ ounce of shredded cheddar, a slice of the crumbled bacon, and some of the remaining sliced scallions.
Notes
209 calories, 32 g carbs, 6 g sugars, 4 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 12 g protein, 4 g fiber (from myfitnesspal.com) MyWW SmartPoints per (1 & ¼ cup) serving: (SP calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com) Green: 5 SmartPoints/ Blue: 5 SmartPoints/ Purple: 3 SmartPoints Weight Watchers Points Plus:
5 per (1 & ¼ cup) serving (PP calculated using a Weight Watchers brand PointsPlus calculator and the nutrition information below) adapted from Peas and Crayons
Could I make this with milk instead of half and hf?
I’d imagine so, half and half is thicker/creamier, but milk should work.
This looks great! Do you know if you can freeze FF Half & Half? So often, I end up having to buy a quart size container, and then have to throw away 3/4 of it! What a waste.
I don’t freeze anything, so I have no idea! However, I do have an ingredient tag for half and half in my recipe index, so if you want to see my other recipes that use it to give you ideas for using up the rest you can find the list here: https://emilybites.com/tag/half-and-half
Emily, I love your recipes girl. I’m about to throw down some of your lemon blueberry muffins. Question about that recipe and a quick suggestion on this soup. The blueberry muffins call for 1 1/2 cp sugar. That’s a lot. How do you think the consistency would hold up if I narrowed the sugar to 1 cp and the rest use Splenda?
Ran it through the WW recipe builder which lowered sp to 4, using no other changes??
Gotta try this soup! Sounds very flavorful. I know center cut bacon is 1 pt each. Have you ever tried the Hormel black label precooked bacon? They are smaller pieces than center cut for sure, but still flavorful. 4 pcs are 3 pts. So easy. Wondering if 1 slice would even be a pt!
Hi Emily! You are my go to for flavorful soup! I was running this one through the WW recipe builder and I keep getting 6 points. Five points with out the bacon. Any idea why?
Nope, though different brands can change the results. I used Cabot cheese and Wegmans center cut bacon if that helps!
Do you think you could use riced cauliflower instead? I have some in the freezer I need to use.
This was perfect for a cold winter day. Definitely comfort food! I will make it again.
Could I use cauliflower that has been blanched and frozen?
I love the idea of this soup….can it be frozen?
Otherwise I will definitely need to make only half…will that effect the cooking in a slow cooker?
I have made this soup at least 10 times. We love it so much. I came on here tonight because my 5 year old, for the first time ever, said “this soup is DE-licious” and I am so ecstatic.