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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When I make hamburg soup, I use diced tomatoes and V8 juice for the liquid. Delicious!
Yummy idea! I use V8 in my cabbage roll soup and it’s delicious, thanks for sharing!
So did I, just because it was available. Works just as well as tomato sauce/soup
Hello, Making the Hamburger Soup today…looks really good.
I hope you enjoy it Joann!
You can also use stewed tomatoes
I cooked this yesterday for my family its a soup my mom use to make when I was growing up so it brought back a lot of memories. I used 28 ounces of cubed tomatoes with bell peppers in a can with the juices. I had no beef broth on hand but lipton beef onion soup mix was a great alternative in a pinch. 1 pouch with 4 cups of water. did not add any extra salt there is enough in the lipton mix. the veggies I used was a frozen blend of peas green beans lima beans carrots. bascilly I used what I had in the house and it turned out really good. in a day in a half the whole pot was eaten. this recipe will be a keeper thank you.
My family is gluten free…so I had to make a few switches…condensed tomato soup has gluten in it, so instead, I used some tomato juice and tomato paste and I used gluten free Worcestershire sauce…OMGoodness…this is so good!! I also used ground turkey I had in the fridge…everyone loved it! As with any recipe, I have to pay special attention to the ingredients of any canned or procesessed foods. This soup is great because it took very little to adjust to our dietary needs. Thanks!!
I have tried several of uou recipes they are wonderful, thanks so much keep providing us with great meal options.
Thank you Pat! I hope you keep coming back for more recipes!
My family loved it. I didn’t have time to cut up potatoes so I used frozen hashbowns. Super good!
Oh my can’t wait to try your Ham and Bean soup in crock pot and your Hamburger soup, they both look so good it was like I could smell them cooking.
I accidentally got crushed tomatoes instead of diced tomatoes My baby is asleep and would rather not go back to the store if I can help it. Any thoughts on substituting the crushed for the diced??
This is soup quick and easy to make and absolutely delicious! Everyone in my family had two bowls and went to bed completely full and satisfied (We added Mexican cheese on top) Thank you so much for sharing!
Love this! :) Glad you enjoyed it!
Looks easy to make. Will try it tonight. Please send more recipes for slow cooker.
You can find more Slow Cooker Recipes here.
It is exactly correct that this is a quick and easy meal. Other than that, there is nothing wowser dowser about it. The flavor is okay–I think kids would like it best because it is pretty bland. But it did go together quickly, and it was satisfying, which was nice after an afternoon of shopping! I did add shaved parmesan to the top which helped, and served it with garlic toast which went well.
A little bit of shaved parmesan or cheese would be great in this, thank you for sharing! You can certainly adjust the seasonings to your liking. :)
I add a small can of tomato paste instead of tomato soup. Makes it seem richer. I also add one large onion and half a bulb of garlic. Also, I put a few different spices, as well as a little bit of Cayenne Pepper to it to give it a little heat.
I make a version of this that has a little kick. I use a small can of tomatoes, but add a can of Rotel. It’s delicious!
My recipe is much like this but you gotta have onion. Just gotta.
I agree! I add the onion to the beef when I brown it!
I’m loving it
Can i use bone broth in this recipe?
Yes, that would work just fine!
That’s what I plan to use. Also, I’m using sweet potatoes instead of white ones.
I would love more simple recipe. Such as the hamburger soup.
In the hamburger soup you can also add a little Texas Pete hot sauce. I also use Vegall for the mixed vegetables.
Yummy addition, thank you for sharing!
I love this soup ! My dad would make it all the time for us when we were growing up. The only difference is he added a little barley…… which is very delicious. He also used just Oregano instead of Italian seasoning.
Barley would be so good in this!!
I’ve made a soup like this for years now. We go downtown every week to feed the homeless and this is a staple. They love it. I add a small pasta noodle ‘ditali’ and call the soup beef noodle. Everyone loves it and it’s always
The first to be eaten
Making hamburger soup right now. I’ve always loved this soup.
Love these recipes! Most all of hem freeze fantastically!
I made the Hamburger soup tonight but like others, I tried it with ground turkey. I didn’t know if I was supposed to use a small can of diced tomatoes or the larger (28oz?) size. I guess it doesn’t make too much difference except that it gives you more liquid and obviously more tomatoes. It seemed to make a huge pot, though, and you said it’d serve 8. If I figured it out right, it looks like one serving is about 3 cups. Is that about right, do you think? I just started weight watchers and I’m trying to portion it out and add up my points. I put in all the ingredients and came up with a point value based on this recipe serving 8. But I think a 3 cup serving is quite a bit. I can make it smaller and it’ll be even less points, but I was just curious if that is about the serving size you came up with. Thank you for sharing the recipes. I can’t wait to try some of the others.
Hi Jennifer,
I used a 28 oz can in this recipe (sorry about that, I’ve updated the post). It does make a large batch (approx 10-12 cups) which would make each serving about 1½ cups.