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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This soup turned out amazing. I doubled the recipe because I was making for my family and to bring to friends. I couldn’t quit eating it. It’s so good. I served it with these sides;
hot bread and butter,
jalapeños (because my husband likes them with every meal) and shredded cheese to top it off with.
This will definitely be one of our new favorites.
Very good. Was fast and easy g to o make
Amazing!! We hosted a huge halloween party and had several cooked hamburger patties leftover that I ground up in my food processor. I doubled the vegetables because that’s how I like it and added cooked macaroni at the end. Might double the broth next time as mine turned into a stew because of my additions. I read reviews only after adding the Italian seasonings so was somewhat anxious as to what the end result would be but the smell was heavenly. I let it simmer while I went trick or treating with my daughter and it was wonderful to come home to. One of the best versions of hamburger soup I’ve tasted and bursting with flavour. Extremely filling so I only had 1/2 a bowl with a fresh bun but I’m freezing the rest and I look forward to another comforting bowl to ward off Fall and Winter chill. Thank you for the fabulous recipe!!
what is hamburger? You mean ground or minced beef, right?
Hi Bob, this recipe calls for ground beef. I hope this helps!
So good! I also added cabbage. Even my two toddlers ate it up!
Delicious!
Can you use baby potatoes instead
That should work just fine Katie!
Basically a very good recipe. Too much Italian seasoning for my crew. I should have gone with half the recommended amount. But I will next time. Definitely a keeper. Everyone loved it and went back for seconds. Thank you so much for sharing.
made it tonight.a little zingie for us. i only used half of the worcestershire, think i’ll skip the italian season next time.
Do you add a can of water with the tomato soup? Or just the soup?
No need to add additional water with the tomato soup Kris. Enjoy!
it was an awesome basis for a good hamburger veg soup but I had to add some better than bouillon beef and additional seasonings to Amp it up a bit. but all means the recipe is good just our tastes needed more
I’ve been making hamburger vegetable soup for years. I don’t normally use a recipe but this time I used yours. This soup is delicious. The tomatoe soup adds a new level to it and a bit of sweetness. I used fresh vegetables and frozen and I used baby potatoes. I added fresh spinach at the end. I didn’t use Italian seasoning. I used garlic and onion powder and Cavenders plus salt and pepper.
Probably the best soup I’ve ever had! Instead of two white potatoes, I used 1 white and 1 large sweet potato. Just amazing. Love it.
For several weeks now, this recipe is our favorite soup. It s very close to the soup that the “Lunchroom ladies” made 45 years ago when I was in Elementary school in Georgia. Keep up the good work!
I am so happy to hear you are loving this soup recipe Max!
I added to much Italian seasoning but otherwise very good, thank you..
Making the hamburger soup today! 35 degrees this morning in Mississippi and a skillet of cornbread with this soup will be very fitting!
The perfect day for this soup Sara! Enjoy!
This soup is always a winner. I add sliced okra in the beginning with carrots and potatoes. Really thickens the soup.
Make it as the recipe states. It will be good.
Then adjust to your needs.
I use 2lbs of hamburger and 4 cups of better than boullion to make mine.
It freezes well also.
Absolutely delicious!!!! Will make this over and over again! I added a can of corn just because I don’t like peas. Thanks for this recipe!
Turned out really good but needed a bit more flavor. Since I cannot use salt anymore, that is probably what was missing. Next bowl will be getting a little salt! Thank you for the great recipes. I have so many favorites.
We made a few changes, just minor ones. We added sweet basil, substituted V8 for tomato juice and changed potatoes out for turnips. I don’t like the way potatoes freeze, their texture changes. Thanks for sharing, it is delicious!
Great recipe and easy to make. Everyone loved it.