Weight Watchers Soup Recipe of the Day: Slow Cooker Spanish Potato Onion Soup
(141 calories | 3 3 2 myWW *SmartPoints value per serving)
A simple soup of potatoes, onions and Spanish-influenced seasonings for the slow cooker, perfect for colder weather.
Spanish Potato Onion Soup
Adapted from Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home: Fast and Easy Recipes for Any Day (affiliate link), where it’s written as a stovetop recipe. I opted to toss everything in the crock-pot (affiliate link) instead.
A few hours later we were rewarded with this hearty and delicious soup ready and waiting for us at the end of a long day.
Served with crusty bread and a green salad, it made for a satisfying meal.
The Skinny on Slow Cooker Spanish Potato Onion Soup
Including more soups in our diet has been one of my tricks for easy healthy weight loss. They’re an easy delicious way to increase your intake of vegetables, filling you up with fewer calories.
As Mireille Guiliano says in her wonderful book, French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure (affiliate link), “The evening soup eater tends to consume less fat and less food overall, feeling satiated through the night, after which she needs ‘a real meal’ on rising to get her through the morning.”
And with leftover soup in the fridge, you’ve got a low Points value solution ready and waiting whenever hunger strikes.
According to my calculations, each generous serving of this Slow Cooker Spanish Onion Potato Soup has 141 calories and:
3 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
3 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
2 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
3 *PointsPlus (Old plan)
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If you like this easy simple Spanish Potato Onion Soup, be sure to check out some of my other lightened up Weight Watchers friendly soup recipes including Skinny Potato Leek Soup, Healthy Slow Cooker Hamburger Stew, Easy Ham & Potato Soup Made Lighter, Creamy Potato Mushroom Soup and Crock Pot Creamy Cauliflower Potato Soup
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Slow Cooker Spanish Potato Onion Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 medium onions, halved and thinly sliced (about 4 cups)
- 3 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch thick half moons
- 4 cups vegetable broth
- 1/4 cup dry sherry
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 2 large bay leaves
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- Pinch of saffron
- Dash of Tabasco or pinch of cayenne (optional)
Instructions
- Ideal slow cooker size: 5-Quart.
- Combine onions, potatoes, broth, sherry and seasonings in your slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on LOW until the potatoes and onions are tender, about 4 to 6 hours.
- Remove the bay leaves.
- Taste and adjust the seasonings as desired.
Recipe Notes
Recipe Source: Adapted from Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home: Fast and Easy Recipes for Any Day (affiliate link)
*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.
This short video from AllRecipes show another way to make Slow Cooker Potato Soup:More Weight Watchers Soup Recipes
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- Skinny Curried Sweet Potato Soup with Coconut Milk (Simple-Nourished-Living)
- Slow Cooker Turkey Potato Soup (Cookin’Canuck)
- Skinny Potato Leek Soup (Simple-Nourished-Living)
- Best Ever Crock Pot Potato Soup (MealPlanningMommies)
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She is the author of the Smart Start 28-Day Weight Loss Challenge.
A huge fan of the slow cooker and confessed cookbook addict, when she's not experimenting in the kitchen, you're likely to find Martha on her yoga mat.
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Hi, I'm Martha. Simple Nourished Living chronicles the easy and delicious Weight Watchers friendly recipes, tips & hints that help me balance my love of food and desire to be happy, healthy and slim. 
Alyssa (Everyday Maven)
This sounds awesome Martha!
zeke
I made the Spanish onion potato soup tonight and must thank you for a wonderful recipe. The spices are right on. I used the stove top to cook it and let the onions cook up bit before adding everything else. had to add garlic as well. Well balanced and with bread just delicious.
Thanks.
plasterer bristol
This sounds lovely. Going to give this a go. thanks for sharing this recipe.
Simon
Elyce
what can I substitute for sherry?
Martha McKinnon
Hi Elyce, I’ve never made this recipe with anything other than the sherry. I did a little online research and one suggestion that sounded good was diluted apple cider vinegar. You might want to try 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar and 2 tablespoons water. (https://tastessence.com/sherry-substitute) Hope this helps.