Weight Watchers Chicken Pot Pie Recipe
This Weight Watchers Chicken Pot Pie recipe is one of my favorite Weight Watchers chicken recipes ever.
I have been making homemade chicken pot pie for years, but it was full of fat and calories, I stopped making it. It’s really a shame because my kids loved it, but I didn’t feel like I was doing them any favors by feeding them unhealthy meals.
If I had known about this delicious recipe, I would have made it years ago. This lighter version is now in my regular meal plan rotation.
If you’re looking for chicken Weight Watchers recipes, what could be better than chicken pot pie at the end of a long day? This is one of my favorite comfort foods!
I was planning to hit the grocery store today and had no idea what I was going to make for dinner. Do you ever feel that way?
I get stuck in a rut and make the same thing over and over. I picked up the latest Weight Watchers magazine to look for new recipes and found this one.
After being press trips recently – first the Carolina Beach tasting history tour, followed by all kinds of things to do in Winter Park near Orlando, it was time to get back on the Weight Watchers plan!
It was a great idea because this chicken pot pie recipe with biscuits is going into my new rotation. I so enjoy cooking when I make something my family loves! That’s another great thing about Weight Watchers; it’s healthier food the whole family can eat!
I did change this recipe a bit. I used regular white mushrooms and green beans instead of peas, and I didn’t use the full amount of cayenne because my daughter doesn’t like spicy.
I also bought the mushrooms and carrots already sliced. Don’t judge me. I use every time-saver I can!
What Goes Into this Recipe
Key Ingredients
Butter – we use it, we just only use what we need to get that butter flavor.
Fat Free Half & Half – added to the butter, it gives the sauce that creamy texture and rich flavor.
Reduced Fat Bisquick – for those perfect biscuits on top!
See the recipe card at the bottom for a full list of ingredients and directions.
How to Make Weight Watchers Chicken Pot Pie
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Spray a shallow baking dish with cooking spray.
Melt butter over medium heat in a large skillet.
Add chopped shallot and cook until tender, about 3 minutes.
Begin steaming green beans while the shallots are cooking.
Add mushrooms and carrots to shallots, increasing heat to medium-high, and cooking until tender, about 5 minutes.
Add wine and boil until evaporated, about 8 minutes.
Stir in chicken broth, 1/2 cup at a time, and bring to boil.
Slowly sprinkle in 1/4 cup of flour. Mix until flour is incorporated.
Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, about 1 minute.
Add fat-free half and half, chicken, green beans, thyme, salt, and cayenne.
Make biscuits for topping by adding baking mix, fat-free half and half, and chives in a small bowl.
Mix until just combined.
Spoon chicken mixture into a casserole dish and drop the biscuits by tablespoons over the filling to make 11 biscuits. You might even find you don’t miss the traditional recipe with that bottom crust that is full of fat!
Bake for about 18 minutes, or until golden brown.
This makes 6 servings, so be sure to watch your portions.
It really is filling but tastes so good you’ll be tempted to go back for seconds.
Don’t! It will be just as delicious the next day for lunch. Smart Points per serving: 5
Variations
There is so much you could add to this recipe to change it up a little. As veggies are zero SmartPoints, load them up! You could add white potatoes, sweet potatoes, fresh peas, or corn.
Skinless chicken breasts would delicious and a little healthier than the rotisserie chicken we used.
Switch out the chicken for cubed lean beef and beef broth. Keep the thyme as it really rounds out the flavor.
You could even make this with shrimp, which is a low SmartPoints food. Use seafood broth instead of chicken for extra flavor.
Frequently Asked Questions
The half & half gives the cream sauce that wonderful texture, so I can’t recommend using skim.
There are 277 calories in one serving. Scroll down to the recipe card for more nutritional information.
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More Weight Watchers Recipes
You’ll find more recipes perfect for Weight Watchers in this roundup of Weight Watchers Dinners. For pizza lovers, I have 20 to-die-for Weight Watchers Pizza Recipes, too. Rather use your Crockpot? Check out this group of Slow Cooker Weight Watchers Meals.
And you’ve got to try these Weight Watchers Desserts!
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Weight Watchers Chicken Pot Pie
Ingredients
Filling
- 2 tsp butter light
- 1 medium shallot chopped
- 8 oz white mushrooms sliced
- 2 1/2 C carrots sliced
- 1/2 C dry white wine
- 1/4 C flour all purpose
- 2 C chicken broth
- 1/4 C fat free half and half
- 2 C rotisserie chicken skin removed and coarsely chopped
- 1 C fresh green beans steamed, chopped in one-inch pieces
- 1 tsp fresh thyme stems removed, chopped
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 pinch cayenne
Topping
- 1 C reduced fat Bisquick
- 1/3 C fat-free half and half
- 2 T chives minced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Spray a shallow baking dish with cooking spray.
- Melt butter over medium heat in a large skillet.
- Add chopped shallot and cook until tender, about 3 minutes.
- Begin steaming green beans while shallots are cooking.
- Add mushrooms and carrots to shallots, increasing heat to medium-high and cooking until tender, about 5 minutes.
- Add wine and boil until evaporated, about 8 minutes.
- Stir in broth, ½ cup at a time, and bring to boil.
- Slowly sprinkle in ¼ cup of flour.
- Mix until flour is incorporated.
- Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, about 1 minute.
- Add fat-free half and half, chicken, green beans, thyme, salt, and cayenne.
- Make biscuits for topping by adding baking mix, fat-free half and half, and chives in a small bowl.
- Mix until just combined.
- Drop by tablespoons over filling to make 11 biscuits.
- Bake for about 18 minutes, or until golden brown.
Notes
Nutrition
