This easy vegetable soup recipe with ground beef is made with ground hamburger meat, carrots, green beans, corn, mushrooms, and tomato juice. It can be made on any day of the week. A quick and easy home cooked meal that's perfect for the whole family.
2cupsfrozen, chopped onion, bell pepper, and celery blend
1-½cupscarrots, peeled and chopped into chunks
1-½cupsfresh mushrooms, sliced
16ouncescanned green beans, drained
16ouncescanned whole kernel corn, drained
1bay leaf
1teaspoonminced garlic
1teaspoonblack pepper
1teaspoonbasil
1teaspoonoregano
salt to taste
Instructions
Brown the ground beef in a large pot, then drain the grease.
Add vegetables.
Add tomato juice and seasonings. Stir. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat to a slow simmer. Simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Remove from heat. Discard bay leaf. Check the flavor and add salt, if desired.
Notes
Serve with cornbread, saltine crackers, french bread, buttermilk biscuits (the frozen biscuits at the grocery store are delicious), tater tots, or a simple side salad.Add-in suggestions:1 cup raw diced potatoes.1 cup green peas, canned or frozen.1 cup cooked elbow macaroni (or your favorite pasta).1 cup cooked rice or wild rice.Chopped or shredded cabbage.Cut okra.Use a small bag of frozen mixed vegetables instead of the canned vegetables.Use V-8 juice instead of tomato juice.