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📋Easy Hamburger Soup Recipe

This Easy Hamburger soup is a simple one-pot, hearty soup made without barley, with hamburger, potatoes, carrots, onions, celery and a delicious tomato broth. It's also Weight Watchers friendly.
Course dinner, lunch, main dish
Cuisine American, Canadian, North American
Keyword best of bridge, easy, hamburger, soup
Special Diet Weight Watchers
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings 10 servings
Calories 198kcal
Author Adapted from "Hamburger Soup" P. 129 Best of Bridge Cookbook

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ lbs extra lean ground beef
  • 1 cup grated carrots * or substitute chopped carrots
  • 5 medium potatoes, chopped * I don't peel mine for this soup, but it's optional
  • 1 medium onion, chopped
  • 4 tablespoon beef bouillon
  • 4 cups water
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 3 sticks chopped celery
  • 10 ounce - can of tomato soup
  • 1 clove garlic, minced * or use minced garlic from jar equivalent measure
  • 28 ounce -can of diced tomatoes (with juice)
  • 1 teaspoon thyme
US Customary - Metric

Instructions

  • Cook ground beef and onion in large soup pot over medium heat until browned and cooked through. Drain.
  • Add all other ingredients to pot, then add ground beef with onion back to pot. . Simmer covered for 1 hour or until potatoes are cooked through (a fork can easily go through)
  • Serve with bread and butter or biscuits.

Notes

🔢WW Points
If potatoes are a Zero point food for you too, you scored! This Weight Watchers friendly hamburger soup is 3 WW points on my plan. You can click HERE to see how many points it is on your personal WW plan.
📖 Variations & Substitutions
  • Ground Beef: further lighten it up/make it more WW friendly with ground turkey or chicken
  • Potatoes: you could use barley instead
  • Vegetables: you could add different vegetables like beans, peas or zucchini. * I often keep 2 cups bags of frozen shredded zucchini in the freezer and drop them right into soups like this!
💭 Top tip
Why you don't need to peel your potatoes
If you are peeling your potatoes, unless you really enjoy extra work, you can stop now. It's the most nutrient filled part of the potato so why would you want to peel all those nutrients away and add more unnecessary waste to the environment? Potato peels contain more iron than the flesh of the potatoes and they're also a good source of fiber, vitamin B, and vitamin C. And I don't know about you, but I really hate peeling potatoes. Maybe it was the endless buckets I peeled at my grandparents farm when I was a kid. Or the zillion I peeled that summer I worked at the fly-in fishing camp. But I'm guessing I'm not alone in my loathing of this task.  You can read more about why you don't need to peel your potatoes HERE and HERE. 
🌡️Storing
This soup can be stored in a sealed container for up to 3 days in the fridge and frozen for up to 3 months.  Reheat it in the microwave or over low heat on the stove top.
Nutrition Facts
📋Easy Hamburger Soup Recipe
Amount Per Serving
Calories 198 Calories from Fat 36
% Daily Value*
Fat 4g6%
Saturated Fat 2g13%
Cholesterol 42mg14%
Sodium 313mg14%
Potassium 1041mg30%
Carbohydrates 23g8%
Fiber 4g17%
Sugar 5g6%
Protein 19g38%
Vitamin A 2352IU47%
Vitamin C 25mg30%
Calcium 76mg8%
Iron 6mg33%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Nutrition

Calories: 198kcal | Carbohydrates: 23g | Protein: 19g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 42mg | Sodium: 313mg | Potassium: 1041mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 2352IU | Vitamin C: 25mg | Calcium: 76mg | Iron: 6mg