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
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Course Soup
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Great soup! Thank you, Holly!
This soup was terrific! I love that it uses simple ingredients. Such a good way to get a lot of vegetables in one serving as well! Thank you for the great recipe!
I made this soup a month ago. It came out delicious. Had extra so I froze it. Thawed it this week and had for dinner. It was so good that I’m making another pot for dinner tonight. Can’t get enough of this. Easy to make and it tastes like my Mom’s homemade vegetable soup from when I was kid.
I was wondering if anybody tried this with pasta instead of potatoes. The article does mention pasta, but it doesn’t say how much to use. I was thinking of using a small pasta like Ditalini.
So last night I found myself in the situation of having a fridge that contained nothing but a bunch of condiments and a pound of ground beef. Found this recipe and decided it could work since I was fully stocked on spices and canned goods. Subbed out dried minced onion and garlic powder for fresh and used two cans of Veg-All in place of the frozen vegetables. Added a can of chickpeas and a can of black olives just because I had them. It was awesome! Can’t wait to try it when I actually have some fresh vegetables in the house.
I made this today. It came out beautifully! It is so yummy and filling! Thank you so much for the great recipes.
Really good & easy hamburger soup, the tomato soup added a different level of flavor.
I did add tablespoon of sugar to it with the other seasonings…soup was good reheated too. Served with garlic bread, yum!
This is a keeper & since you can mix up the veggies by either using fresh or frozen is BONUS!
Making this for the first time , with it being so cold out thought this would be great, as my husband and I love soup , going to make corn bread to go with it !!! Smells great!!!
I am a new member but i cannot wait to start cooking some of these recipes that french onion soup looks like it may be the first one i try. Then the stuffed peppers. Yum!! Thanks for letting me subscribe.
Thank you love new recipes…love cooking
I used vegetable juice for broth and turned out fantastic
Can you use canned vegetables ?
Hi Jacqueline, that will definitely work! Many readers have tried the recipe with canned vegetables with success. Have fun cooking!
This looks really yummy. Is there any way it could be made a little thicker so it’s not soup, but like a stew?
I would suggest thickening it with cornstarch. Combine equal parts cornstarch and water (or broth). Pour into boiling soup a little bit at a time until it reaches desired consistency.
Looks good!
Can I make this in the slow cooker?
Hi Diane, we have never tried this recipe in the slow cooker. But I think it could definitely be done! 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.
Potatoes need longer to cook. Other than that maybe more broth. Quite tasty!
This was a huge hit. I used ground moose burger instead of ground beef. I also added a ton more garlic, since we love garlic. I sent this recipe to my family for them to try. I will defiantly make this again, it was so easy. I added macaroni noodles as well.
Delicious soup! I didn’t have tomato soup so I used extra broth and half tin of tomato paste. What a hearty delicious soup! Thank you!!!
Looks Good