Are you looking for an easy, one-pot weeknight dinner? Look no further, because my vegetable beef soup is your answer! It is packed with vegetables, protein from ground beef, and gut-healthy bone broth.
Jump to RecipeThis recipe fits almost any diet that includes meat! It is gluten-free, grain-free, and dairy-free. If you aren’t a fan of peas, you can substitute green beans. You can also be flexible with the broth you use. I suggest doing half vegetable broth and half chicken or beef broth. But you can do totally one or the other if you’d like!
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Now, onto the recipe!
Vegetable Beef Soup
Equipment
- Soup pot with lid
- Cutting board
Ingredients
- 1 lb. ground beef
- 3 stalks celery, sliced
- 5 medium carrots, sliced
- 1/2 tbsp. butter (optional)
- 1 lb. baby creamer potatoes, cubed (sub Yukon gold or red potatoes)
- 1 15 oz. can diced tomatoes
- 20 oz. vegetable broth
- 20 oz. beef or chicken bone broth
- 2 tsp. sea salt
- 1/2 tsp. ground black pepper
- 1 tsp. Italian seasoning
- Sprinkle celery seed
- 2 dried bay leaves
- 16 oz. frozen peas (sub frozen green beans)
Instructions
- Brown ground beef in the soup pot. While the beef cooks, slice the celery and carrots and cube the potatoes.
- When the ground beef is browned and cooked through, remove from the soup pot, put into a bowl, and set aside. Leave the fat in the pot for sauteing the veggies. If there's not enough fat, melt about 1/2 tbsp. of butter.
- Saute sliced celery in the beef fat or butter for 5 minutes, then add the carrots and saute for another 5-10 minutes.
- Add the beef back into the pot, as well as the potato cubes. Pour in the vegetable and beef or chicken broths and diced tomatoes. Stir to combine.
- Add the seasonings: sea salt, black pepper, Italian seasoning, celery seed, and bay leaves. Stir well to combine. (Note: the amount of salt you use will depend on how salted your broths are. Start with 1 tsp. and add more as needed.)
- Bring the soup to a boil on high heat while uncovered and then turn down to low, placing the lid on the pot. Simmer on low heat for 20-30 minutes until the vegetables are soft but not mushy.
- Add the frozen peas (or green beans) and simmer until cooked, about 5-10 minutes.
- Serve alongside a salad or homemade bread.
Thoughts from the Chef
This recipe developed from just wanting to throw something together without much thought or time. Even if you love cooking, there are some days you just don’t feel like spending much time in the kitchen! Or maybe you’ve had a busy day, it’s nearing 6pm, and you have no idea what to fix. Maybe you haven’t even defrosted any meat yet! (Been there, done that – like every week.)
This vegetable beef soup can get dinner on the table quickly and you can make it fast even if you have a completely frozen block of ground beef. I defrost either in a bowl of warm water or in the microwave. While we’re on the topic of ground beef, I almost always use organic, grass-fed ground beef. We order meat monthly from Butcher Box. You can customize each box, skip months, and cancel at any time. It’s SO convenient! If you want to try it out yourself and get $30 off your first Butcher Box order, use MY LINK! (This is a referral link so I also will earn cash back.)
Like I mentioned in the recipe notes, you’ll want to taste test for the amount of salt. It all depends on how salted your broths are. The vegetable broth I use is salted but the bone broth is not. So I need the 2 teaspoons called for in the recipe. But if your bone broth is salted already, you’ll need less.
This soup also gets more flavorful on subsequent days! So if you’re not feeding 6 people, you will have leftovers either for easy lunches or for dinner the next night. I love recipes like that!
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Grace says
Thank you for the great recipe! I did add onion and garlic. The other modification was that I only used 1 teaspoon of salt. This was delicious and we will definitely be making it again!
Malori says
You’re welcome!! I’m so glad you enjoyed it and that it was great with the onion and garlic. 🙂