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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This is a great recipe. Have a few suggestions for people. Potato’s, don’t peel and slice. The skin of the potato is where all the nutrients are. And don’t slice because it makes a surface that can’t absorb the broth. What you want do is clean the potato’s then crack them. What this means is you take a pairing knife, cut part way into the potato in you hand then twist the knife. A slice will come off and have uneven surfaces so the broth will absorb. And I would suggest new potato’s(red) or Yukon gold instead of russet.
Interesting tip on ‘cracking’ the potatoes. I’ve never heard that before, thank you for sharing!
Learned this in Spain. Making potato and chorizo soup (Spain curred chorizo not the Mexican one). If you want the recipe let me know. Simple and amazing
Thank you Michael! It sounds delicious for sure!!
I would love your recipe please
Loved this soup! Made it a couple nights ago. I added red pepper as well to bring in a little more spice. Reheated great the following day as well. I used canned peas, canned corn and canned stream beans and kidney beans for vegetables.
This soup is amazing! I’ve made it twice and followed the recipe exactly. It’s delicious. My husband and three sons love it. I serve it with cheesy garlic bread. It’s a huge hit and heats up well for leftovers too.
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Love your site. I’ve tried a couple of your recipes. The Hamburger Soup was delicious, simple, and quick to make. I also made your Pork Chops w/Mushrooms – yum! Keep them coming!
I added tomato paste, red pepper flakes, s as bad beef paste for additional flavor. Also added macaroni and mushrooms.
This was so easy using all ingredients I already had. Taste amazing! I think the italian seasoning was secret and unexpected ingredient that puts it over the top. My whole family loved it!
Made this many times. This site has good recipes. Just some time I have to add a little more salt.
Wow!! This soup is beyond delicious…. keep them coming Holly
Super easy to make and easy clean up!! Substituted condensed tomato soup for crushed tomatoes. Definitely going into the keeper pile.
Very appreciative of your amazing site and recipes. I am making your hamburger soup recipe AGAIN for dinner. The first time that I made this – I told my husband what it was and he was not too impressed until he came in with the house smelling like I had made a gourmet dinner and he enjoyed it very much.
This soup was the best Hamburger Vegetable Soup I’ve ever made. My family LOVED it!
Made this to recipe. Didn’t really like it the first day. Much better the second. If I made it again, I would eliminate the Italian seasoning. Just gives if an off flavor.
I made this with quite a few additions added. I made the hamburger meat exactly as instructed with ; however, for my soup I used two cans of tomato paste, a “family” size can of tomato soup, and roughly 4 or so cups of water (I made a big batch) as I did not have any broth. I also used fresh carrots and fresh celery along with the potatoes, then I used canned french green beans, corn, and peas (all rinsed) and a can of diced tomatoes with green chilies. I season with lots of salt and pepper, also used 2 tsp. of Worcestershire, roughly a tablespoon of basil, oregano, Italian seasoning, and parsley. I also added chili powder and about a tsp of hot-sauce. I may have went a little overboard with the salt, but it was absolutely delicious!
Hi! I’m making this now. I used two small Gold potatoes and would also like to add some rotini. How many cups of raw rotini should I add? Thank you!!
Hi Jennifer, I would add about 1½-2 cups of uncooked pasta.
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Sounds delish! Do you still be something at the store you could buy called soup stouter and you could add ground beef to it. But this sounds Good.
Love the quick and easy recipes ! I’m a mom of three and often work late so finding something health is often more of a workout then going to the gym lol. Thanks for taking the time to share healthy recipes…
Made your Hamburger Soup.
Used pasta shells instead of potatoes it was DELICIOUS.
My husband really like this dish, so. Will be making it often. Also used canned vegetables as that is what I had on hand plus fresh cabbage cut very thin.
Thanks I always look for easy fast recipes.
That sounds so yummy Yvonne! So happy you both enjoyed it :)