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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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I’ve always made this soup. it’s so good
We make this soup so often. It’s easy and make a great leftover meal for several days! Thank you!
I make soups frequently for my in-laws but this one was my favourite.My in-laws loved it as well. The only thing I added was a can of black beans to add more fiber and protein. Both is very important for my 86 year old in-laws. It went to fast to get a picture…lol.
This is one of our favourite soups. Easy to make, hearty and the kids and grandkids enjoy it too.
My favorite soup! Thank you for sharing. I love it!
looking forward to great recipes, can’t wait to try some.
I’ve made this soup more times than I can count. I use ground turkey, add diced celery and a can of kidney beans to make it more like a Minestrone. Love it.
Love this soup. I do add a bit of cabbage. It is soooo good!
I made this soup for our church Souper Bowl event, and it was a hit. I made sure to chill it to pull off the residual fat that I wasn’t able to drain initially (I will be sure to do a better job of that next time). I also was liberal with the Italian seasoning, which wasn’t good—be sure to keep to the correct amount. Otherwise, it was excellent, and I plan on making it often. I added extra potatoes, which was a good move.
Turned out delicious. I used frozen veggie mix and some leftover noodles instead of potatoes since I needed to use them up. Also used a little tomato sauce I had left over instead of the can of soup. All worked out!
hello! wondering if you have any suggestions on substitutions for the tomato soup cans? trying to stay away from the processed stuff. thank you
If you don’t want to use a can of condensed tomato soup, you should be able to use an equal amount of tomato sauce, or a mixture of tomato sauce and water if you prefer. We would love to know how it turns out for you!
Don’t know if this will help, but I use tomato juice instead of tomato soup.
I use V8 juice.
we loved this soup!
I’ve tried several recipes and they’re all excellent thank you
Listen. This soup is not only fast and easy—3 out of 3 adults that I routinely share my food with absolutely RAVED about this soup. My husband and parents both said it’s the best soup I’ve ever made and brother, I’ve made a lot of soups in my day. Most infinitely more complicated than this one. I will be doing this on rotation now with cost and ease as well as getting the veg in our diet (and yes, I used the frozen!). The only deviation I made was adding a seasoning called potato slayer I not only covered my potato pieces in it, but then I added extra to the soup. Really takes it up a notch because that potato slayer (found at my local Walmart) has dill and other seasonings that pair well with hamburger.
So glad you enjoyed it, Amy! That seasoning sounds delicious too!
Hi! How would you recommend cooking this using a slow cooker? It looks delicious but I don’t have a pot large enough for the stovetop. Can’t wait to try it! Thanks!
Hi Allison, we have never tried this recipe in the slow cooker. But I think it could definitely be done! 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. Enjoy.
Decent starting point but found it kind of bland. Added some Paprika, Chili Powder, and a tiny sprinkle of Cayenne, which really took it up a notch
Those additions sounds delicious. Thanks for sharing, Matt!
So good and so easy! Leftovers are yummy, too. Love this recipe. I’ve made it several times.
Making this tonight for second time. So good. I used homemade Ajvar instead of tomato soup. Turned out delicious.
Love this recipe So yummy for a cold winter day I used a jar of hot salsa to give it a little more heat
Love this soup! Instead of potato I add pasta. This time I used small shells which act like little cups to hold all the flavors! Top with crackers or what we prefer a Portuguese Pop with butter to dip in! Yummmmmm
being a family of 1, I love recipes like this I can eat for a week and still freeze some
Perfect!!!