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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Absolutely delicious!! My husband and love this on a cold, snowy, winter night. ❤️
I found your recipe for
this soup yesterday and I made it last night. I only tweeked one ingredient… instead of using regular diced tomatoes, I substituted a 28oz. can of original Rotel tomatoes and chilies️. You wouldn’t believe how delicious it made this soup… kicked it up a notch but it is not too hot… just enough to give you a little tingle in your mouth. I almost forgot… I did add 2tbsp.of sugar to tone down the acidity of the tomatoes. Try it, I think you’ll love it!!! Thanks for the recipe!♥️
I didn’t have beef broth but I had dried beefy onion Lipton soup dried so added that with water and it was delicious plus frozen veggies I had from our garden and canned tomatoes we canned.
Not bad, but a little bland. Add an additional two tablespoons of worchestershire sauce, 2 beef Boulton cubes, 15 ounces spring water (to adjust for evaporation), teaspoon of paprika and 1/2 to full depending on taste of chilli powder. Bring to full boil 30 minutes to 45 for potatoes. Use frozen mixed vegetables for best results. Cook time needs to be 1 1/2 hours for flavor to absorb and feel free to add another bay leaf.
Also recommend sweating onions a little in extra Virginia olive oil with garlic before adding hamburger meat. only because had on hand lean 93 percent ground sirlion.
I made this a couple of weeks ago, and my husband and I both enjoyed it. I followed the recipe, and it was perfect for us. It freezes well. I just bought some more hamburger meat and plan to make again for our out-of-town visitors.
this was probably the best recipe I have ever followed. normally recipes don’t have enough spice for me but this I followed to the tea except for not having a bay leaf. it was phenomenal. definitely going to make it again.
all recipes look good going g to make chili and then later hamburger soup
So far all the recipes look great, can’t wait to try them.
The BEST soup of its kind I’ve made. Thank you so much for this recipe- it’s quick, easy, inexpensive, and just plain good, a definite keeper that I plan to make on the regular from now on. I’m a new user of your website, but the family has loved everything we’ve tried so far!
I am so glad you are enjoying the recipes!
Quick, easy, economical, delicious, nutritious!
Spiced mine a bit more heavily but that’s just South Texas. Otherwise perfection!
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Can you use noodles versus potatoes? and if yes, does it matter on what kind?
Hi Jennifer, if using pasta noodles you will want to increase the broth as the noodles will absorb the liquid. Any noodle should be just fine! If you try it I would love to hear how it turns out!
I always add noodles and it’s perfect. I keep the potatoes in though so it should still be good. I just add the noodles when I add the mixed vegetables so they don’t get too soggy.
My husband loves this soup and he doesn’t like a whole lot of things. I substituted 1/2 can of tomato paste for the tomato soup and swapped chicken broth for the beef broth (mother’s allergic) and increased chicken broth to 4 and one half cups. it was a complete hit at my house. Greatly appreciate this recipe. I already shared it.
Does the tomato soup absolutely need to be included? I have a gluten allergy and most condensed tomato soups have gluten containing ingredients…
I have only tried the recipe as written Jackie. But other readers have tried swapping it out for V8 or crushed tomatoes with great success. If you try it I would love to hear how it turns out!
I have used just tomato juice whwn i didnt have the soup and it works just fine
Made this the regular way and plant based and both are really good! Had to add a little sugar both times, my husband is not a fan of highly acid soups; but it didn’t take away from the flavor, just toned done the tomatoes.
Great for this time of the year! Made some cornbread on the side and we had a cozy and filling meal.
love the recipe making this for my sick kids
We LOVE this soup, so delicious and hardy
Fantastic!
always a crowd pleaser.. I substitute sweet potatoes for regular potatoes