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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My daughter doesn’t like canned tomatoes,,can i leave them out,should i add more tomato soup? or what else can i use?
You could try blending up the tomatoes, or substituting for more tomato soup, broth or even crushed tomatoes. I’m sure she’ll love it!
I puree my tomatoes and leave out the tomato soup. You can add more broth and we like it better.
Leave out the tomatoes and add a can of V8! Yummy!
This soup is yummy.
I made this tonight. It was fast, easy and delicious!
This is THE best hamburger vegetable soup I have ever had. I have always eaten vegetable soup with stew beef. My so-in-law makes a good hamburger vegetable soup which is close to this recipe. But this recipe, to me, is out of this world.
Thank you Beverly! So glad to hear that you love this soup!
Love to put in a can of beans, prefer to drain. Good with leftover juice from a roast, use additional broth or water as needed.
Yummy additions Wanda!
This is so easy to make a very hearty meal!
I pinned this months ago. Finally made it tonight, and it was gooooood. I made one tweak (it was an accident, but I’m calling it a tweak now). I used chicken broth instead of beef broth. Still delicious. I’m now mad at myself because I could have been enjoying this during the winter. Live and learn. :)
Next time I plan to try some of the modification you suggested.
Glad to hear that you loved this recipe!! Enjoy it all year ’round!
Have made this several times and it is YUMMY!
So glad you loved it!
Will be added to my favorite recipes collection. Followed the recipe exactly and turned out very well.
So glad you loved it Esther!
My husband and I love this recipe. I substitute ground turkey for the hamburger because my husband has gout and has to limit red meat. It is easy to make and tastes even better left over.
I am glad you and your husband enjoyed it Kathy! I haven’t tried it with ground turkey, but it sounds delicious!
I was taught to start with your soup pan and your skillet. Brown the hamburger and add the tomatoes into the hamburger along with seasoning. In the soup pan you start with your water/broth and the veggies you need to cook (potatoes, carrot). Then when the veggies are just tender pour your skillet ingredients into your soup pot. Simmer, taste adjust, add additional canned /frozen veggies if you need to “bulk it up”.
Delicious
Delicious!
Absolutely delicious, quick and easy. Second time I gave made it! I had to back off the Italian seasoning a little for me.
So glad you loved it Rena!
It was great. My family loves it and now it’s my Friday night meal.
Hey Holly, Great recipe.
I adapted it a bit – used ground turkey, no tomato soup or potatoes (but blitzed a can of diced tomatoes to look like tomato soup (In my smoothie machine which I don’t use for smoothies lol), added a tiny bit of broken up whole-grain spaghetti, and added okra and cut up French green beans (Trader Joe’s) only as veggies
Nice changes! Enjoy Lena!
This soup is awesome and so easy to make. My husband doesn’t eat it so I will freeze what is left.
Have been making this soup once a week all winter long. Very good and so easy.
Thank you Kai!
How would I convert this to a crock pot recipe?
I would suggest browning the beef and adding it to the slow cooker along with the remaining ingredients. Cook on low 6-8 hours or until the potatoes are tender.
Made the soup with crushed tomatoes instead of diced. Very tasty. Will make it again.
I am so glad you enjoyed this recipe!