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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Soon easy to make! A friend in I were in Israel for Rosh Hashanah, which meant there weren’t going to be any grocery stores or eating establishments open for a few days. I saw the recipe on FB and we decided to try it so that we had something to eat over the holiday. Trying to find the ingredients in an Israeli grocery was a hoot (since everything was written in Hebrew and few pictures). After the grocery store adventure we went home to fix the soup, not sure if we even had the correct ingredients. Let me just say, it was delicious!!! We’re so glad that we tried it. Now that I’m home, I’m going to try making the soup again and hope it turns out as well the second time. Thanks for posting!
Making this tonight for dinner and so far smells good
Just made this for supper tonight. My family loves it! Really yummy and filling. Will defiantly make it again- it’s a keeper!!
So glad to hear that your family loves it Angie!
If making with Elbows or Rotini how much pasta do you use?
You would use approximately 2 cups of pasta Linda. Enjoy!
Loved this soup. So easy to make.
We make this with fresh veggies and make the hamburger meatballs, its called it Abondiga soup
Ingredients are awesome, lots of room for tweak. I added choped green chili and it just added the extra flavor.
Big hit, everyone could not stop eating it. All wanted the recipe.
Added, Red wine Vinegar, minute rice, potato flakes, olive oil and 8oz tomato sauce.
Used seasoned ground pork.
Awesome sauce recipe.
Very easy and my family loves it
One word
Awesome
I tried the Hamburger Soup for the first time and my husband and I loved it. I had most of the ingredients on hand and found the recipe easy, quick and delicious. What a nice surprise to find such a wonderful recipe! The tutorial was inviting and encouraged me to try it the same night I saw it. Thank!!
I am so glad your family enjoyed the recipe!
My mom used to make this…..she called it mustgo soup,she checked the fridge and said……this must go this must go lol…….
I love it Linda! Thanks for sharing this with me!
That is such a great story, Linda! I repeated it to my husband and we had a nice laugh over it, Your mom sounds like she was fun!
I’ve made this twice. My kids love it!
We loved it! Great recipe, and definitely will make again!
So glad you loved it!
So easy and quick to make and deeeeelicious! My husband loves soups and this one made him very happy!
Glad he enjoyed it Diane!
Loved it. Making it again today with my Mom.
Loved it. Made it 2 weeks ago. Making it today with my Mom.
I was thinking this soup wasn’t going to have much flavor so I added Rotel tomatoes to give it a little kick. This turned out sooooo good. I barely added any salt and I could have went without the Rotel and used regular diced tomatoes. It has so much flavor, and my daughter loved it. I will definitely be making this again from now on. Thank you for such an amazing recipe!!
This soup is sooo good the whole family loved it!!