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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Good and easy just right for a snowy day in the PNW I added a little red wine and a package of onion soup mix.it is simmering on the stove and smells devine❤❤❤
I made this soup and it was delicious!
So good and my husband loves it too!!!
I’ve made this soup twice this month my family loved it!! I made sure to make a double batch the second time.
Could this be made with a meat substitute like Gardien Crumbles or something similar? I have a vegan in the house…..
I haven’t tried it but I don’t see any reason it wouldn’t work! I’m not sure how the crumbles react being boiled so they could also be added towards the end so they don’t become spongey.
I made this with deer meat my family loved it! We will definitely be having this more often. Thank for the recipe. God Speed!
This soup recipe is very good!! It is the only one I will ever use.
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Well I used my canned stewed tomatoes instead of tomato soup and still was yummy !
Was so good……thank you
Made this a few times. Easy to make and Simply delish!
My husband and I love this. My vegetables were Carrot’s and mushrooms ( what I had on hand). This is very easy to make and tastes great. Thank you for such a great recipe.
Absolutely loved it! It was a little thick, I used gluten-free pasta for my husband and put in the box, 8 oz. I will more liquid the next time.PS. Gluten-free pasta tastes and feels like the real thing!
Super easy and very verry good. A recipe to keep and make again.
I have been searching for this recipe (or the taste of it anyways)!! It tastes exactly like my mom used to make when I was a child and I have been craving this for years! It warms my heart to have the perfect hamburger soup back in my life :) (I used half the diced tomatoes, and only 3 cups of broth and I loved it!) It is on my stove right now (and was yesterday too!) and I’m hoping it works well to freeze this batch!
YAY! So glad you loved it!
Easy to make and Delicious!
I am so glad you liked this recipe!
I loved this recipe because it is so easy, and a way to get some protein into my kiddo who only wants to eat carbs. I would double the meat and add 2 more potatoes next time. Two thumbs up!
I loved this recipe. Very easy and a great way to get some protein into my kiddo who wants to eat carbs all the time. You could almost double the beef however….and add 2 more potatoes. Two thumbs up!
I made this tonight and it was great! Made it exactly as written! This is huge for me, I am a nightmare in the kitchen!!! Thank you
I made this once at home just for our family. Well I didn’t even get a bowl and it was gone . They loved it. so I decided to make it for my family get together for Thanksgiving as an appetizer before the big meal, just in case some one came early and they were hungry. I made 4lbs of meat, so that’s 4 big pots. well needless to day it was gone!!! Our family is Italian, so I put some pecorino shredded cheese in each serving on top and it was a hit!! That is a good hint! Well, my sister wanted the recipe and my niece wanted it also and she a guru for healthy foods! I was so proud of myself. So thank you!!!!!! Looking for more of your delicious recipes.
You’re so welcome and thank YOU for the tip! I love pecorino so I’ll give that a try for sure!
Very tasty, simple and quick to make! Thanks for the recipe!
You’re welcome Dawn!