Quick Tomatillo Chicken Soup - 2 cups = 2 Points Plus

I've discovered that the more effort I put into my food, generally the more ok I am with "dieting." As it's the weekend I was able to make a nice soup for lunch.

There are a few things I always have around - garlic, onions, canned tomatoes, some kind of chicken and/or vegetable stock, and a well stocked herb and spice cabinet. This makes it easy to come up with something that won't make you stop eating out of boredom before you're full.

Ingredients
3 oz chicken breast, chopped
14.5oz can of chopped tomatoes
3 tomatillos
Half an onion
Half a zucchini
5 cloves of garlic
Fat free chicken stock
Salt, pepper, ancho chile spice, paprika, onion powder
Cooking spray

So here's a thing that's new to me, as new as I am to Weight Watchers and the Points Plus (pp) system - the Recipe Builder is a dick. If I put all these ingredients separately into my tracker, I would be charged 2pp for the chicken and 1 for the broth, and theoretically eat the entire pot (I guesstimate some 6 cups) for 3 points. Seems to good to be true, and it is. As much as it makes me roll my eyes, I'll be using the recipe builder's points here. You can read more here about why the Recipe Builder dings you for more points than basic tracking. In the case of this recipe, it's actually very clean so it is still a super light soup, with a filling two cups costing 2pp.

I'm a pretty intuitive cook - I can follow a recipe but I like to just see what happens a lot of the time. Soup is always the same basic formula for me - add oil to a hot pan, brown whatever meat you're using with garlic (there's always garlic) then slowly add the rest of the ingredients and broth and simmer for as long as possible. In this case I simmered for 30 minutes, because I was hungry! This soup gooooood.

I ate mine before I could take a decent picture, but it's a tomato based soup with stuff in it so you can use your imagination. Or you know, your eyes when you make it yourself.