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posted by Emily Bites in All Recipes, Comfort Food, Main Dishes, Soup
Calling all pumpkin lovers! Also bacon lovers. Oh, and apple. Basically, if you love Fall flavors like I do, this Pumpkin Apple Bacon Soup is going to fill your taste buds with joy. This soup is thick and creamy with savory onions, smoky bacon, hearty pumpkin and sweet apples – perfect comfort food. It’s also warm and filling and a good-sized bowl will only set you back 209 calories or 5 Weight Watchers SmartPoints on all three myWW color plans! To view your WW PersonalPoints for this recipe and track it in the WW app or site, click here!
I like super thick, creamy soups, but if you want to thin yours out a little feel free to add an additional cup of broth. If you’re on the lookout for more hot and tasty soup recipes now that the weather is getting colder, check out my , Cheeseburger Soup, , Chicken Tortilla Soup, Butternut Squash Soup, Roasted Poblano Corn Chowder, or Roasted Tomato Basil Soup.
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Prep Time: 15 minutes mins
Cook Time: 35 minutes mins
Total Time: 50 minutes mins
Calories: 209kcal
This Pumpkin Apple Bacon Soup is thick and creamy with savory onions, smoky bacon, hearty pumpkin and sweet apples!
Yield: 6 (1-1/3 cup) servings
Ingredients
- 6 slices center cut bacon
- 1 small onion, diced
- 2 medium apples, peeled and chopped
- 5 cups fat free less sodium chicken broth
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- 30 oz canned pumpkin puree
- 3 tablespoons packed brown sugar
- 4 oz 1/3 less fat cream cheese, softened and cubed
Instructions
Prepare the bacon according to package directions until crispy. Place cooked bacon on a few paper towels to dry and cool. Reserve one tablespoon of the bacon grease and discard the rest. Chop the bacon into small pieces, separating two slices worth of chopped bacon from the rest (reserved for garnish).
Place the tablespoon of bacon grease in a Dutch oven or soup pot and bring over medium heat. Add the onions and apples and stir to coat. Cook for 8-10 minutes until onions are translucent. Add the broth, salt, pepper, thyme and cinnamon and stir together. Bring the mixture to a boil and boil for 5 minutes until apples are softened.
Add the pumpkin, brown sugar and bacon pieces (4 slices worth) and stir until well combined. Reduce the heat to med-low and cook for about 10 minutes.
When soup is done cooking, add the cream cheese and puree the soup completely, either by using an immersion blender directly in the pot or by pouring the soup in batches into a normal blender, until smooth.Soup will be thick and creamy. Serve with the remaining bacon pieces sprinkled over top as garnish.
Notes
To view your WW PersonalPoints for this recipe and track it in the WW app or site, click here!
Nutrition Information:
209 calories, 28 g carbs, 18 g sugars, 8 g fat, 5 g saturated fat, 7 g protein, 5 g fiber(from myfitnesspal.com)
MyWW SmartPoints per (1 1/3 cup) serving: (SP calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
Green: 5 SmartPoints/ Blue: 5 SmartPoints/ Purple: 5 SmartPoints
Weight Watchers Points Plus:
5 per (1 1/3 cup) serving (P+ calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
Adapted fromBrown Eyed Baker
Author: Emily Bites
Course: Soup
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Fall Flavors, Fall Soups, Weight Watchers, WW Soup
posted on October 13, 2014
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32 comments on “Pumpkin Apple Bacon Soup”
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Lindsay — October 13, 2014 @ 11:30 pm Reply
This looks like the perfect fall soup! I think I know what’s for dinner tomorrow night! 🙂 thanks Emily.
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Emily Bites — October 14, 2014 @ 9:08 pm
Hope you love it, Lindsay!
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jean diemer — October 14, 2014 @ 8:45 am Reply
Can’t wait to try this soup as it sounds heavenly. Also love the cute yellow bowls. Since I’m a Yellow person, could you tell me where you got them or who the manufacture is as I bet the soup tastes better out of these cute yellow bowls. Thanks so much and I will definitely make this soup.
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Laura — October 14, 2014 @ 9:37 am Reply
Wow! Everything I love about fall in one meal. Need to try soon!
@Jean Diemer, I’m not sure who makes the bowls Emily is using but here’s a link to bowls that I am dying to get. They are on my wedding registry and fingers crossed that i get them!
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/2578391/?wlitemid=2578391&wlid=wtcjgqn5mh&ggfrl=1-
Emily Bites — October 14, 2014 @ 9:11 pm
Hope you love the soup, Laura! Cute bowls 🙂
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Linda — October 14, 2014 @ 12:16 pm Reply
I just had this soup for lunch and it is AMAZING! And Jean, I think that the bowls are from Pottery Barn.
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Emily Bites — October 14, 2014 @ 9:08 pm
So glad you loved it! 🙂
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jean diemer — October 14, 2014 @ 9:06 pm Reply
Thanks Linda,
I love Pottery Barn and will check them out as I love yellow and I hope to make this soup soon as it looks so yummy.
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Emily Bites — October 14, 2014 @ 9:07 pm
She’s right! They’re from Pottery Barn 🙂
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jean diemer — October 14, 2014 @ 9:29 pm Reply
Thanks Emily,
Can’t wait to try your soup and I will check out the bowls as they are beautiful.
jean
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Crystal Basey — October 26, 2014 @ 7:08 pm Reply
AMAZING !!!! This is an awesome soup. It is fall in a bowl. Thank you for helping us along in our healthy eating journey. Keep the awesome recipes coming.
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Emily Bites — November 4, 2014 @ 8:34 am
Thanks Crystal, I’m so happy you loved it! 🙂
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Jule Barta — November 15, 2014 @ 3:03 pm Reply
Just made this for lunch today. The soup is really good. I found it a bit too sweet and next time think I will leave out the brown sugar. Although it could have been the apples I used, my neighbor gave them to me and they were already sweet. I would recommend tasting the soup before adding the sugar.
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Mary — November 24, 2014 @ 9:14 pm Reply
Will this soup still be good if it’s premade and warmed in a crockpot?
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Emily Bites — December 2, 2014 @ 2:41 pm
Sure!
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Kathy T. — December 29, 2014 @ 4:54 pm Reply
I just had an appointment with my diabetes clinician this morning and she gave me your website link as a resource for good, easy and healthy recipes that I cam use to get my A1C ‘s and sugar levels down…I just started going over some of the recipes and think I’m in love :0) . I think it is quite a compliment for a site to be recommended by a “doctor” to patients, especially diabetic and those looking for good, healthy and easy to prepare recipes. I look forward to being a repeat “customer”. Thank you, from southeast Georgia………
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Jodi — February 19, 2015 @ 12:35 pm Reply
Soup is so good! Thank you for the recipe. Any idea how many points without bacon (or with turkey bacon)?
Thanks.
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Sara — October 18, 2015 @ 6:04 pm Reply
Is there a substitute for the cream cheese? I don’t care for it. Thanks
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Lisa — February 2, 2016 @ 9:40 am Reply
Ok I know this is really late but I just tried this last night and I have to say this is the BEST soup I have ever made. Its not even 10 and I can’t wait until lunch!!! Thanks Emily!
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Robyn — October 4, 2016 @ 9:12 pm Reply
Absolutely love this soup. Perfect for lunch or dinner. So many wonderful recipes on this site.
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Brittany — December 7, 2016 @ 10:38 am Reply
Meal planning for the week and this is definitely on my list! What types of apples do you use for this recipe?
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Caitlin — August 21, 2018 @ 10:16 am Reply
Have you ever tried making a butternut squash and apple soup? This looks so tasty but I am not a fan of pumpkin…
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Emily Bites — August 21, 2018 @ 2:38 pm
I have an AMAZING Butternut Squash Soup, it’s one of my all-time favorites. You could probably add an apple, but honestly, I wouldn’t change anything about it. Here’s the link: https://emilybites.com/2012/09/butternut-squash-soup.html
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Michele Fili — November 23, 2018 @ 4:33 pm Reply
Love the soup. It is a keeper. Will definitely make again.
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Michele Fili — December 19, 2018 @ 5:39 pm Reply
Made this soup three times. Love this. Shared with my Weight Watcher friends. Great flavor and so filling.
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Bonnie — October 8, 2019 @ 10:33 pm Reply
I plugged in the numbers on my ww calculator and it works out to 9 freestyle points. Not 5
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Emily Bites — October 8, 2019 @ 10:40 pm
Hi Bonnie,
Nope, it’s 5! You can’t use the calculator for recipes, you have to use the recipe builder which takes into account the 0 point foods.
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Vicki — November 23, 2019 @ 11:21 am Reply
Can you freeze the soup?
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Vicki — November 23, 2019 @ 11:26 am Reply
Can this doup be frozen?
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Kim — October 15, 2020 @ 2:44 pm Reply
Is this really sweet or does it taste hearty?
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Heidi — September 19, 2021 @ 10:06 am Reply
Super good! I thought this would be too sweet, so I reduced the brown sugar to 2 tablespoons and used Lakanto golden monk fruit, and added about a half teaspoon of cayenne pepper. Turned out perfectly!
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Christine Herman — October 17, 2021 @ 11:31 am Reply
This soup is FANTASTIC! It the perfect fall tastes and soup in a bowl. Let me say this, my husband does not even like pumpkin and thoroughly enjoyed it! I think it was the bacon 🙂
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