 Hi friends welcome back to my channel and a special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on WW personal points. Happy Sunday friends I hope you have a wonderful wonderful Sunday. I hope you had a great weekend I am coming at you again with another WW friendly calorie friendly recipe. This is an instant pot recipe It is a copycat Panera bread broccoli cheddar soup recipe one of my favorite favorite things that Panera bread and this one is equally as good way less points in calories so if you're excited don't forget to give this video a thumbs up make sure you're subscribed and your bell notification is turned on so you never miss a single upload check out that description box for nutrition coaching I offer personalized macros and calories and one-on-one coaching you'll also find links and discounts to my favorite things and of course my facebook group we'd love to have you join that community as well so let's go ahead and jump in to our instant pot copycat Panera bread broccoli cheddar soup I am so excited about tonight's recipe like I mentioned this is one of my favorite things from Panera and we're making it point friendly and calorie friendly but equally as yummy so let me show you what is in our recipe you're going to need salt and pepper 1% milk or 2% milk light butter celery chicken broth cream cheese again I wasn't able to find light cream cheese so when I do the points for you I will do them with light cream cheese because I recommend that to save on points and calories but I'm just going to use regular because that's what I have on hand you'll need some light shredded cheese lots of fresh broccoli and some shredded carrots you're also going to need an onion the first thing I need to do is chop chop chop so I'm going to chop up some celery my onion and my broccoli I'm going to go ahead and turn my instant pot on to saute mode and allow it to warm up we're going to add one and a half tablespoons of light butter allow that to melt completely once your butter is nice and melted and hot we're going to add in our diced up onion and celery and we're going to let this cook for about two to three minutes we want them to get a little bit softened once they are softened we're going to go ahead and hit the cancel button turn off sock a mode then we're going to add in three cups of carrots and all of our chopped up broccoli you're then going to add your six ounces of cream cheese right on top and there's no need to stir it in go ahead and put your lid on your instant pot set your valve to seal and we're going to set the timer for three minutes the instant pot is going off the three minutes is done we're going to allow it to naturally release for five minutes then I'll go ahead and turn the release valve here to let the remainder of the pressure out it smells really good I'm just quickly going to stir in the cream cheese now we're going to add in three cups of milk eight full ounces of light shredded cheese which is one bag and salt and pepper to taste and then give that a stir mixing that cheese in really well the milk oh my gosh this looks so incredibly good so here is our broccoli cheddar copycat soup from Panera this looks and smells absolutely incredible it's definitely giving Panera vibes I'm going to go ahead and serve it up and I'll be back to share points and calories so here is my dinner doesn't this look absolutely incredible creamy full of vegetables cheesy the perfect weeknight weeknight dinner this would also make a fantastic meal prep that you could take for lunches during the week you can also make this recipe on your stovetop if you do not have an instant pot and you could probably throw this in your crock pot as well so that is my copycat Panera bread broccoli cheddar soup thank you for joining me on another WW friendly calorie friendly recipe video I hope you enjoyed seeing our Panera broccoli cheddar soup it was so good I mean so so good equally as good as Panera I will make sure the recipe is on my website my website will be down in the description box along with nutrition coaching links and discounts to my favorite things and my Facebook group don't forget to head on over and join us there thank you guys again so much for watching happy sunday and I'll see you in tomorrow's meal prep bye