Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Summer Corn, Bacon and Potato Chowder (4 points, 7 points plus)

Ingredients

1 medium Yukon Gold potato
1 sprays cooking spray
1/2 cup celery
1/4 cup onion
4 piece corn on the cob
1 cup sweet red pepper
4 oz Canadian-style bacon
2 cup fat-free skim milk
1/2 tsp table salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/8 tsp hot pepper sauce


Instructions
* Puncture potato in several places with a fork; microwave on high power until tender, turning over once, about 8 minutes. Allow to cool; peel and mash.

* Meanwhile, coat a large saucepan with cooking spray. Add celery, onion, corn and red pepper; sauté over medium-high heat, stirring frequently, for 5 minutes.

* Stir bacon and milk into saucepan; stir in mashed potato and mix well. Season with salt, pepper and hot pepper sauce; stir to combine. Cover and simmer 10 minutes (do not allow to boil). Yields about 1 1/2 cups per serving.

Serving Size: 1 (413 g)

Servings Per Recipe: 4

Calories 266.5

Calories from Fat 32 12%
Total Fat 3.6 g 5%
Saturated Fat 1.0 g 5%
Monounsaturated Fat 1.3 g 6%
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.7 g 3%
Trans Fat 0.0 g 0%
Cholesterol 17.7 mg 5%
Sodium 817.1 mg 34%
Potassium 953.2 mg 27%
Magnesium 79.4 mg 3%
Total Carbohydrate 47.2 g 15%
Dietary Fiber 5.2 g 20%
Sugars 7.2 g 28%
Protein 16.4 g 32%


From www.weightwatchers.com

2 comments:

Chef Erik said...

This sounds great. I love this soup recipes. I will have to make it with veggie bacon though. Very nice :)

metaDAD said...

yum!