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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In 2003 and 2009 I spend my vacation in Canada, B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan. I have tasted the hamburger soup twice and love it. Now I’m glad to have your recepy and can cook it at home. Thank you so much.
Ger Smeets
Overloon
The Netherlands
I love this soup. I couldn’t find how much a serving size is however. I’m hoping it’s a cup, as I wouldn’t be satisfied with only half a cup.
Yes, one serving is about one and a half cups.
Thanks Melissa for the awesome basic recipe. I used less Italian seasoning and added Sofrito to mine. I loved this recipe. Super easy to make and the kids loved it.
I can’t use condensed tomato soup because of the sugar. Could I just use maybe 3 cups of home made tomato soup?
Sure you can.
Seeing as nobody is answering, I will. Condensed tomato soup is basically tomato sauce, sugar, a touch of salt and cornstarch or a thickener. I think you’d be fine with your favorite tomato sauce or paste (add more water if using paste), a touch of your favorite sugar free sweetener if desired (I would probably add a tablespoon of Swerve Brown), salt to taste and if you need it for thickening either a sprinkle of guar gum or arrowroot powder. I have always made soups similar to this with tomato sauce so that would likely be fine too.
How much of condensed tomato soup do I need to make this recipe?
Ariella, you use a 10 ounce can of condensed tomato soup. Enjoy!
If your using canned vegetables would you drain them first?
Yes, they should be drained and added towards the end of cooking as they’re quite soft already.
Made it today ! Loved it – very simple and you can add / omit what you want ! Thank you !
This was soooo good. I added about a tablespoon of my salt free Mrs. Dash garlic and herb seasoning. This was quick and easy and my family enjoyed it! I probably could have saved time on fixing onions and potatoes because it was in my frozen vegetable medley. Oh well!
It’s not only delicious but the texture is bright and colorful.
It all looks tasty and easy!
I loved this recipe. Super easy to make and the kids loved it. The only thing that was off to me was the italian seasoning. While it was still very good I felt like (because I am not a huge fan of it) the italian seasoning flavor stood out. Will make again but will omit it an add another seasoning instead. One question: is the nutritional information based on an 8 oz serving?
Glad you enjoyed this soup Melissa! It’s so easy to spice to your liking. One serving is about one and a half cups.
Do you can your hamburger soup? I want to, but only if its a tried and true recipe.
I have never tried canning this recipe.
I am planning on canning this soup today, it doesn’t look like any ingredients cannot be canned.
This is great and easy recipe but I did not add Worcestershire sauce because my son is extremely allergic to fish
I heard about your site from Camping with Steve. Can’t wait to try some of your recipes.
How would you suggest making this in a crockpot?
Hi Amanda, 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!
This soup was delicious! I didn’t have a bay leaf on hand so it was omitted but still so tasty! I will definitely make this again and again. Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely delicious soup, I added green peppers since I had them in the fridge and it turned out beautiful. My husband now asks for this recipe all the time, it is a nice treat in the winter months here in the midwest.
I have made this dish before and all my family enjoyed it!
I typically am disappointed with recipes I try online. This was AMAZING! Thank you! The only thing is, what exactly is one serving. It doesn’t specify how much of it is a serving.
Hi Kyra, a serving is approximately one and a half cups. Glad you enjoyed this recipe.
It says there are eight servings. If you add up the quantity of liquids and veggies and meat you’re putting into this it comes up to more than 8 cups. Being very conservative and coming up with 15 cups easily. Not a bad thing. Tomorrow is better. Just makes it a little more difficult in figuring out how many calories.
Just finished making it. So delicious. Thanks. Your receipes are keepers
I made this today ! It was so good ! It was perfect for a rainy damp day ! It fills you up & so tasty ! My hubby had 3 bowls. And said this is the best soup ever ! Thank you for all your receipe ! I can’t wait to try a lot of them and you have given me a lot of ideas of what to make thru the week. Thank you