🥣 Creamy Carrot Soup Recipe (Award-winning)
This Award-winning Creamy Carrot Soup with beef is a one pot meal that is healthy, hearty, and delicious! Substitute ground turkey or chicken for the ground beef or eliminate the meat all together and make it vegetarian.
Servings 6 servings
Calories 172kcal
Ingredients
- 1 lb extra lean or lean ground beef or substitute ground chicken or turkey
- ½ cup chopped celery
- ½ cup chopped onion
- 1 cup chopped green pepper
- 3 cups grated carrots
- 1 32 oz can tomato juice
- 1 10 oz can cream of celery soup undiluted
- 1 10 oz can condensed cream of mushroom soup undiluted
- 6 cups beef or vegetable soup stock
- 1 teaspoon fresh garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon dried marjoram
Garnish (optional):
Instructions
- In a large pot or large dutch oven, brown the ground beef on the stove top. over medium heat (or ground chicken or turkey).
- Combine the remaining ingredients and begin to cook on medium heat.
- Bring the soup to a boil, then reduce and simmer on low heat, uncovered, for 1 hour or until vegetables are tender.
Garnish:
- Garnish with crispy fried onions, if desired.
Notes
📖 Variations
WW friendlier: substitute ground turkey or chicken for the ground beef- this will decrease the points substantially
Vegetarian: And it can easily become a vegetarian dish by using vegetable stock and eliminating the meat all together.
Deluxe - add crispy onions as a garnish!
🍽Equipment
You only need a soup pot (affiliate link) for this recipe. A food processor (affiliate link) for shredding carrots, is handy, but a box grater (affiliate link) will do.
💭 Top tip
Use the food processor to quickly grate large batches of carrots, then bag and freeze them for future use. If you are really pressed for time, most grocery stores sell grated carrots.
🌡️Storage
Make sure your soup has completely cooled before putting the lid on the storage container and moving it to the fridge or freezer.
- The soup can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for 3 days.
- This recipe freezes well in an airtight container for up to 3 months.
Nutrition Facts
🥣 Creamy Carrot Soup Recipe (Award-winning)
Amount Per Serving
Calories 172
Calories from Fat 63
% Daily Value*
Fat 7g11%
Saturated Fat 3g19%
Cholesterol 49mg16%
Sodium 104mg5%
Potassium 532mg15%
Carbohydrates 9g3%
Fiber 2g8%
Sugar 4g4%
Protein 16g32%
Vitamin A 10820IU216%
Vitamin C 25.2mg31%
Calcium 41mg4%
Iron 2.1mg12%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition
Calories: 172kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 16g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 49mg | Sodium: 104mg | Potassium: 532mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 10820IU | Vitamin C: 25.2mg | Calcium: 41mg | Iron: 2.1mg