Lately I took the little bits to Madison County, of The Bridges of Madison County fame, to take a look at Clark Tower. The huge stone tower was constructed within the 1920’s on prime of an unlimited hill with essentially the most attractive, sweeping views of Madison County beneath.

I’ve been eager to see it for years, and advised the children we had been going to go see a citadel. We had been all thrilled!

The tower is positioned inside Winterset Metropolis Park which accommodates one of many historic bridges, plus an enormous playground, hedge maze, and a log cabin initially constructed within the 1850s.

The altering leaves, cool breeze, brilliant blue skies, and sense of outside journey made for a very perfect-feeling fall morning.

What actually drove the sensation house was having a pot of cozy Hamburger Soup ready for us to eat again on the home.

This floor beef and veggie-packed soup tastes just like the canned vegetable soup of your childhood (the place my fellow 80s infants at?!) made healthful and selfmade.

I can’t emphasize sufficient what number of greens are packed into every bowl, but every brothy chew tastes wealthy, savory, and hearty. Hamburger Soup is simply a 2-bowl-worthy recipe!

Watch How one can Make It

Components Wanted

This simple vegetable hamburger soup is a clear out your fridge, freezer, and pantry form of dish. Right here’s what you’ll want:

• Floor beef: I choose utilizing fattier, 80/20 or 85/15 floor beef for a extra luxurious mouthfeel, however use what you want finest or have readily available.
• Beef inventory: high-quality beef inventory or beef broth varieties the savory base of the soup.
• V8 Unique Vegetable Juice: shock! V8 is my secret ingredient for including extra veggies and taste to every chew. You should purchase particular person cans of it on the retailer.
• Recent greens: thinly sliced or shredded carrots, celery, onion or shallot, and diced russet potatoes make up the fresh-veggie portion of this system.
• Frozen candy corn: for pops of shade and taste in every spoonful.
• Canned inexperienced beans: Like several good elder millennial, I love canned inexperienced beans and stored them in my recipe as a nod to the canned vegetable soup I used to eat as a child.
• Tomato sauce: for shade and taste.
• Further virgin olive oil or butter: for sauting the recent greens in.
• Garlic: for cozy aroma and taste.
• Italian seasoning: for a pleasant herby taste.
• Bay leaf: so as to add one other layer of taste to the broth.
• Seasoned salt and pepper: black pepper plus my 4 ingredient selfmade seasoned salt add plenty of taste with practically zero effort.

What to Serve It With

What I like about this hearty soup is that I don’t want to serve it with something, because it already accommodates the perfect Midwestern meal trifecta of meat, vegetable, and starch.

That stated, if you wish to spherical out the dinner desk, serve every bowl with a recent inexperienced salad or any of those simple facet dish recipes:

I can’t wait so that you can get this hearty floor beef soup recipe simmering in your range. It really feeds your abdomen AND soul!

How one can Make This Recipe

Step 1: Saute the greens.

Begin by heating additional virgin olive oil or butter in a big soup pot over medium warmth. Add sliced or shredded carrots, thinly sliced celery, and chopped shallot or onion then saute till the greens are tender, seasoning with my selfmade seasoned salt and pepper.

Add recent garlic then saute till extraordinarily aromatic, 1-2 minutes.

Step 2: Brown the bottom beef.

Flip the warmth as much as medium-high then add floor beef and break it up because it cooks. Fattier floor beef like 85/15 or 80/20 stays very tender within the soup after sauting/simmering, plus it provides a ton of taste. You possibly can both drain the combination then return to the pot, scoop out extra fats with a spoon, or skim off any fats that rises to the highest of the soup because it simmers.

All that stated, lean floor beef is ok to make use of, or if you wish to get even leaner, floor turkey or floor rooster may additionally be used. I’d keep away from floor turkey breast or floor rooster breast as a result of they have an inclination to dry out.

Step 3: Simmer the soup.

Flip the warmth to excessive then add a can of tomato sauce, prime quality beef inventory or broth, plus a can of V8 vegetable juice so as to add additional diet, seasoning, and taste.

Lastly, add Italian seasoning, a bay leaf, a can of minimize inexperienced beans, and frozen candy corn then stir to mix and convey the soup to a boil.

Add diced russet potatoes then flip the warmth right down to medium-low and simmer till the potatoes are tender, 15-20 minutes, stirring sometimes.

Diced yukon gold potatoes are a great swap, although I do love the creaminess of normal ol’ russets!

That’s all she wrote!

Take away the bay leaves then scoop this hearty, humble, DELICIOUS Hamburger Vegetable Soup recipe into bowls and revel in. Then return for an additional bowl. After which one other. You’ll see!

How one can Retailer, Reheat, and Freeze

My Hamburger Soup recipe makes sufficient to feed a military however when you have leftovers — fortunate you! They reheat and freeze extraordinarily nicely.

• To retailer: cool the soup to room temperature then scoop right into a glass storage container with a lid (plastic will stain) and refrigerate for as much as 5 days.
• To reheat: scoop individual-sized parts into bowls then reheat coated with a paper towel within the microwave. Alternatively you may reheat the soup in a pot on the range over medium-high warmth.
• To freeze: cool the soup to room temperature then chill within the fridge. Pour the chilled soup right into a gallon-size Ziplock freezer bag then seal and freeze flat. Thaw the bag positioned inside a dish (in case of leaks) within the fridge then reheat in a pot on the range over medium-high warmth.

I hope you like each spoonful of this nourishing, brothy, beef and veggie-packed soup. Take pleasure in!

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