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.
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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If using cabbage, when do you add?
I’d suggest that you add it in with the rest of the vegetables
I made it and it was a hit at my house, no leftovers at all.will double the recipe next time, thank you so much
Yay Annie! You’re so welcome!
This is the best veggie soup ever! My whole family loves it & gets me to make it once a week every week. They really like the fact that it’s made with hamburger instead of beef like the way I use to make my veggie soup before.
Thanks for a great recipe!
Hello Holly this recipe for hamburger soup is absolutely delicious perfect for a February day when it’s snowing in Wisconsin all the ingredients are in my home and I used both fresh frozen and canned vegetables I added a few homemade dumplings to top off the soup it is absolutely awesome thank you for sharing the recipe Terry Schmidt Wisconsin
You’re welcome Terry! Glad to hear you love this recipe!
I could eat this every day! Yummy! And comforting…
This was a great and easy recipe!
So glad to hear you enjoyed it Colleen!
Have made a vegetarian option – using Quorn mince and vegetable stock – absolutely delicious
Wonderful soup!! So easy to make and so healthy too, I make it all the time
Made this soup tonight. I think the beef broth makes it! Delicious…easy to prepare and will definitely be a repeat at our house!
So glad you loved it Vicki!!
Best soup I ever made. I had all ingredients at house. It tastes like my Mom soup but I wouldn’t tell her that. Lol
Actually I’ve copied several of your recipes this is the first one that I’ve made and I was really happy with it I’m going to add it to my list of things to cook and I made the biscuits with it too It really complemented the soup. thank you for sharing this recipe thank you for sharing your cooking skills with us because I’m a girl that her mother didn’t teach her how to cook and I really appreciate you being out there take care
So glad you loved it and yay for trying new things!! :)
Wow! This is great. I substituted the ground beef with a whole rabbit, it was Delicious! For all the health nuts, read into rabbit..I started raising rabbits in the most humane way possible! An average lifespan of a rabbit in the wild is only two years and most times they die tragically. not at my house.
I made this soup but added/deleted foods that my kids do not like.
I did not use tomatoes, added tomato and basil soup and a can of cream of mushroom soup which made it a bit more creamy.
I also added oregano and a smidgen of sugar.
It was fantastic!
I loved this! This is similar to one I’ve made a bunch in the past- just because it’s so easy and it makes so much. My only change, and this was because it was what I had at home- was to sub out Low sodium V 8 for the tomato soup, and the only tomatoes I had were Rotel- chili blend, so I omitted the Italian seasoning. What happened was a happy marriage of my regular hamburger soup and chili. It definitely had a southwestern flair to it. I ended up topping it with Mexican cheese, and serving it with a salad and garlic rolls. It was great. Thanks for the recipe!
Great additions, thank you for sharing!
Will canned veggies work?
Yes they would work!
Thanks for sharing the recipe. Turned out fantastic and tweaked it a little based on comments. Used V8 juice instead of tomatoe soup for a lil flavour boost. Really goid soup. Will use this recipe again!
I am so glad you enjoyed this recipe!
I most certainly did make it… it’s so tasty.. making my 2nd one today.. So happy I found this receipe !
Absolutely delicious! Big hit with my family :) I added chilies and franks hot sauce to spice it up and it was fantastic!
Forgot to rate!!
FIVE stars, for sure!
DELICIOUS! …after two bites, my husband said “this recipe is a keeper!” I doubled the recipe. We are a family of five, and my daughter had an additional FIVE friends over (all high school age!) Everyone enjoyed it… AND we had some left over for the next day – which is EVEN BETTER the next day! I used the Delmonte Diced Tomatoes with Basil, Garlic, and Oregano… otherwise, followed the recipe 100%. Thank you for giving me a new recipe… especially one to feed a crowd ;)
I’m so glad your family loved it!