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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Another winner from Holly!
Thank you!
This looks so delicious i can’t wait to make it
Will try this soon. Sounds great Thanks Bea Mack
Can’t wait to make this soup
I absolutely loved this recipe!! It was a hit with the whole family, grandparents included.
I will be making this for the third time tonight. The first time I made it – I told my husband we were having hamburger soup – he was not too excited. After the first smell and taste, he loved it.
Thank you so much this saved me, I started a new religion dedicated to hamburger soup.
I was not impressed with the taste of this soup. It lacked flavor. It lacked everything I expected it to be. I suppose I should have used water instead of the beef broth to get more of the tomato flavor or V-8 Juice, I don’t really know what I could do to improve the taste.
I’m sorry this recipe wasn’t everything you expected Debora, we truly love this soup as written! Next time you could definitely try adding V-8 juice instead of water to it! Hopefully that helps.
Excellent and easy, planning on freezing some for Winter. Thanks
My family loves this soup! We were wondering though, is the nutrition information for the entire soup or per serving? And if per serving, what is the serving size?
Hi Victoria, the nutrition information is per serving and a serving is approximately 1½ cups.
Thank you!
I am Italian I live in Italy Florence. I loved making this stew me and my parents, my cousins , my aunt,uncle loved it . Can u make more delicious recipe I will keep learning from you . Thank for delicious food recipe this is the best . I made this soup during this year my parents anniversary.
So happy to hear your family loves this recipe Mark! That is so sweet that you made it for their anniversary, I am sure they loved that!
I love this recipe it is delicious. I’m wanting to cook it again. What do I need to do to double the recipe??
Hi Tammy, you can just double the ingredients and then cook until the potatoes are cooked through. It may take slightly longer but shouldn’t alter the cooking time too much.
Thanks for the share! I didn’t have condensed tomato soup, so to make up the sweetness, I added a teaspoon of Sukrin gold. I added a jalapeño, better than beef broth and some celery. I also made this up in my IP for 10 and it was perfect. I served it with cornbread and some cheese and it was a hit!
So glad you were able to make this soup work with what you had on hand Meredith!
I have made this soup sooo many times and absolutely love it but I have never attempted making in a slow cooker. Do you think it could be done and what suggestions do you have?
I think it could definitely be done Sandy! I would suggest browning the beef and adding it to the slow cooker along with the remaining ingredients. Then cooking on low 6-8 hours or until the potatoes are tender. Enjoy.
I cook a version of this im my crockpot. I do brown the meat first drain and add to the crockpot. I use all fresh veggies, cook on low for 6 hours. It is so good but I always feel its missing something. I’m not sure what tho. Tonight I will try adding cabbage.
My husband and two teenagers ate the entire thing- huge hit. I didn’t have any tomato soup so didn’t add that… and only had frozen corn. They’ve requested more meat added – which I used elk meat for the recipe
So happy to hear that your family enjoyed the soup! It’s so perfect for a family, and easy to build on. Thank you for sharing Amber!
I made this yesterday! Sooo delicious! I added green pepper. Will definitely be making this again
Mmmm, great addition Jen!
Best way to make hamberger soup
So happy you think so Robert!
Love soups and casseroles
Thanks Rita!
Made this a few weeks ago and it was delicious. I also froze some at the time and took it out for dinner last night. So good on a chilly night.
That is perfect Jessica! So happy it worked out for you.
I used fire roasted tomatoes and it smells absoutely amazing! Looking forward to surprising the famiky tonight! Best part is I already had all the ingredients! Thank you!
That would be delicious Julia!
Two things would really help: what is the serving size, and how to print the nutritional info along with the recipe?
The serving size is approximately one and a half cups. Sorry Polly, our website is only set to print the recipe portion of the post.