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.
Easy Hamburger Soup
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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Fast and hearty! To get the metal acidic taste from tomatoes out add 3 tablespoons of sugar. Do that to spaghetti sauce as well.
That is a great tip! Thanks for sharing!
This is very easy and yummy to eat. I would recommend this!!
Glad you enjoyed Diane!
I make this often and love it! I use ground chicken and sweet potato and it is wonderful!!
That sounds like a great variation of this soup!
My family loved it! Doubling it next time!
I made this and it’s fantastic.
Awesome!
I plan on making this soup this week and am wondering if anyone has used sweet potatoes instead of regular potatoes? And I will use a tomato paste instead of condensed soup, I try to avoid those! At any rate, the soup looks delicious and I can’t wait to make it!
Looks good and easy. Will make it.
I made this for the second time within 2 weeks. I am trying to eat healthy & this soup fits the bill! Love to use the fresh veggies that are so reasonably priced now & I used ground turkey. Yummy
I rate it a 10 (scale below is confusing
Glad you like it so much!
Loved your soup. Made extra for the freezer.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I made the soup last night and added about 3-4 tbsps of tomato paste for a bit more depth & thickening and 1 tbsp of sugar to cut the acid a bit and my family LOVED it. It’s definitely a keeper.
Great suggestions. So glad you liked it.
OMG this is so good
Will be making it again
All I can say is DEEEEEE-LISH!!!!!! I made this soup last night. I made a few slight variations to suit my taste but the overall recipe is outstanding. Simple. Hardy. Easy to make with vibrant flavours. My variations were: 2 lbs of ground beef (‘cuz I love lots of meat in my soup), 2 beef cubes & some dry chili peppers for kick.
The recipe made 5 big bowls. Total cost for all ingredients around $10.
VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Chili flakes would be yummy in this! Thank you for sharing!
Hi do you cook the potatoes ahead of time?
No, the potatoes are not cooked ahead of time.
This was simple and excellent! My family loved it. My son said it tasted like Shepherd’s Pie in soup form.
I wouldn’t use commercial taco seasoning… WAY too much sodium! If you make your own (sans salt), then fine. With the tomatoes, tomato sauce, and Worcestershire sauce, and the beef broth (unless you use sodium-free or low-sodium), there’s more than enough sodium to go around.
This recipe doesn’t contain taco seasoning.
This soup was soooo good! I was looking for a new soup recipe and had all of the ingredients on hand. It is my new favorite and I’ll be making it often.
So glad you liked it!
Loved this so much! Easy to make, tastes wonderful.
Very easy! I used tomatoes with green chili’s, gives it a little kick! I omit the Worcestershire sauce because I have to follow a restricted salt diet. I also add small noodles, to help thicken it up a little like a stew since I can’t have crackers.
Has anyone tried it with adding a packet of taco seasoning ?
You could definitely try that!
I’m made this soup before but to have a thicker broth i used tomato paste. Delicious!