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Hamburger Soup is a quick and easy meal loaded with vegetables, lean beef, diced tomatoes and potatoes. It’s great made ahead of time, budget friendly, reheats well and freezes perfectly.
We serve this easy Hamburger Soup with a fresh green salad and some crusty bread for the perfect meal!
I love a good soup as a weeknight meal. Hearty soups are satisfying & simple and they are loaded with vegetables and healthy ingredients! Soup is the perfect cool weather food or delicious weeknight dinner!
You can make them totally low cal like a Weight Loss Vegetable Soup, nice and hearty like a Chicken Wild Rice Soup or rich and creamy like a Slow Cooker Corn Chowder!
This Hamburger Soup is simple classic comfort food, hearty, healthy and satisfying. Perfect on a cool evening to warm your belly from the inside out.
I have to say that while we’ve always referred to this as hamburger soup, I know you guys have tons of other names for it! Hamburger soup, vegetable soup, hangover soup, poor man’s soup, bachelor’s stew… just to name a few.
Regardless of what you call it, you’ll definitely want to make it!
How to Make Hamburger Soup
A rich tomato broth is filled with ground beef, tender potatoes and vegetables. Sometimes the most simple ingredients make the best ever meals.
This hamburger soup is not only delicious, it’s easy to make with ingredients you likely have on hand.
I start with a mixture of lean beef, onion and garlic browned and drained. You can use any kind of ground meat in this recipe including ground turkey.
Beef broth is the best broth option to add lots of great flavor; I personally prefer the low sodium variety.
Hamburger Soup with Vegetables
I use a mixture of frozen vegetables to make this super easy (no chopping, no prepping) but it’s also a great way to use up any veggies in your fridge. Carrots, celery, peas, beans, zucchini… pretty much anything goes, sometimes we make this even with cabbage!
This version of Hamburger Soup uses potatoes since that’s how we always had it growing up. If you don’t have potatoes on hand (or just prefer pasta) you can add any type of pasta into this recipe!
I add an extra 1 cup of broth (or water) and let the pasta simmer until tender. Macaroni, shells and rotini are favorites to make this into a delicious and hearty macaroni beef soup!
What to Serve with Hamburger Soup
While the soup is simmering, I prepare a quick chopped salad and slice up a loaf of french bread (almost always served with Homemade Garlic Butter) for a complete meal.
If you’re lucky enough to have leftovers, this soup is great reheated for lunches all week but even better, it freezes perfectly!
I prop up a freezer bag in my little baggie holder and fill each baggie with one serving.
When I need a quick lunch, I take it out of the freezer the night before or in the morning and microwave for a perfect meal. (And then sometimes add a little sprinkle of cheese before serving).
This has been a family favorite forever!
It gets rave reviews from everyone who tries it, it’s quick and easy to make, reheats well and is versatile. The perfect soup.
This is also an excellent gifting soup.
If you know anyone that’s recently had a baby or surgery, or is just having an extra crazy week with the kids, this is the soup to drop off.
Add along a side of 30 Minute Dinner Rolls for the perfect meal!
It stretches to feed a crowd with that salad and bread and will last a few days.
Easy Hamburger Soup
Ingredients
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 onion diced
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 2 medium potatoes peeled and diced
- 3 ½ cups beef broth
- 28 ounces canned diced tomatoes with juices, 1 can
- 10.75 ounces condensed tomato soup 1 can
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 bay leaf
- salt and black pepper to taste
- 3 cups frozen mixed vegetables or fresh chopped vegetables
Instructions
- Brown onion, ground beef and garlic until no pink remains. Drain any fat.
- Add potatoes, broth, tomatoes, tomato soup, Worcestershire sauce, seasoning and bay leaves. Simmer covered 10 minutes.
- Stir in vegetables. Simmer 15-20 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
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Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Soup
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Rating based on the high ratings and delicious sounding recipe. Making it for tonight’s meal. Recipe says 8-servings. What is the measurement per serving?
Hi Mary, each serving about 1 1/2 cups.
I make this all the time since finding this recipe a few years ago. I love it. Sometimes I add fresh squash to it. It’s perfect as written. My young kids love eating their vegetables now. Thank you so much for sharing.
it was sooo good!
Delicious soup that my wife and kids love. This really hits the spot on cold or rainy days…
This is the perfect kind of meal to warm you from the inside out!
This soup is fantastic! The only thing I did different was use some cooked farro in place of the potatoes since I didn’t have any. Honestly, with every bite I took I thought how delishes it is. Thanks for the great recipe.
This is a favorite soup of ours! It is so flavorful and delicious!
I also make it with chicken breast. It is my partner’s favorite soup. Make it all the time!
Fantastic soup with a fantastic flavour!!
This was fantastic soup and the flavor was out of bounds and Guy fieri would say…this is a keeper
Wow – this packs a lot of flavor. I added canned green beans, peas, and carrots. I also added fresh cabbage. My family loved this!
I have been making this for a few years for my family and friends. Everyone I have shared it with always go back for more!
Thank you for the recipe. It’s delicious and what my mom used to say, “a meat stretcher.”
I just made this soup tonight! you said easy and that is what I needed and I had all the ingredients, perfect! I am so glad I did. it is really delicious! My son left his room to find out what smelled so good.
We all really enjoyed it and the recipe made enough for lunch tomorrow! can’t wait to try some of your other recipes!
it was so good!
Delicious, quick, easy.
Love the taste of this soup! Very easy to make, I like that I can add different veggies each time I make it! A nice crusty bread to sop up every bite!
The perfect hamburger soup!
So comforting and delicious. I like to add a little bit of cabbage because it reminds me Mom, but it is perfect without it.
This turned out amazing!! I’ve been doing alot of your recipes lately. Everything turns out so good!