Hamburger Vegetable Soup With V8 Juice – How To Make Easy Vegetable Soup

Hamburger Vegetable Soup with V8 Juice is the perfect meal for hungry kids and adults. With 5 simple ingredients, you can have a warm, hearty, family-pleasing soup on the table. Using a bottle of V8 and a bag of frozen vegetables makes this meal totally doable for a busy weeknight.

Tomato Hamburger Vegetable Soup Recipe

The hamburger vegetable soup with V8 juice is a tasty and nutritious soup! Eating vegetables is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. I love vegetables, but trying to find new ways to make them is always a challenge.

Sometimes, you just need soup. Soup is good for the soul, and it’s cheap, and forgiving, and warm. We could go on and on, and this Easy Hamburger Vegetable Soup is all of these things and more.

Let’s face it. We get overwhelmed with recipes that have a ton of ingredients. Our eyes see the list, and immediately our brain writes it off as “too hard”. It’s for this reason alone that we have a whole page of recipes with 6 ingredients of less. And, this soup meets this criteria.

Hamburger Veggie Soup Ingredients

The ingredient list for this shortcut vegetable soup is short…like 5 ingredients! Check your pantry and cabinets for these ingredients and kitchen tools before you get started.

1. Lean Ground beef
2. Onions
3. Potatoes
4. V-8 juice (secret ingredient)
5. Frozen mixed vegetables

Kids love hamburger, and you can use whatever frozen veggies they dig. If it’s carrots, then go with it. Corn, green beans, peas, lima beans – whatever they love, use it. There’s no reason to put your energy into a meal that they will turn their nose up at. Been there, done that.

How to Make Tomato Hamburger Vegetable Soup

Step By Step Instructions

1. In a pot, brown ground beef and onions, season generously with salt and pepper.
2. Add diced potatoes and frozen mixed vegetables, and stir together. Pour V8 vegetable juice on top and stir again.
3. Bring to a boil, and reduce heat to a simmer for 35 minutes or until the vegetables are all fork tender.

Equipment

Check out our list of essential kitchen tools and pantry staples needed for this recipe. Our favorite kitchen tool ever, a meat chopper, is perfect for browning hamburger.

For the full recipe instructions and recipe amounts for 5 ingredient Hamburger Vegetable Soup, scroll to the bottom of this post to the recipe card. 

What veggies go in vegetable soup?

Vegetable soup is very versatile. It’s the perfect way to clean out your veggie drawer in the fridge, or check the pantry for cans needing to be used up. The freezer is also a great place to look for half bags of frozen veggies that can be tossed into the soup.

Here’s a list of vegetables that taste great in vegetable soup.

• Corn, canned, frozen or fresh off the cob
• Frozen mixed vegetables
• Onion, freshly diced or dried, minced
• Potatoes, peeled or unpeeled
• Peas, canned or frozen
• Celery
• Leeks
• Cabbage
• Green beans, fresh, frozen or canned
• Garlic, minced
• Zucchini
• Carrots
• Greens (kale, spinach, collard greens)
• Tomatoes, fresh or canned
• Squash
• Okra
• Chickpeas

Recipe FAQs

• How can this get any easier? This is a 5 ingredient hamburger vegetable soup – ground beef, onions, potatoes, V8 juice and frozen vegetables. The result is warm, hearty and delicious.
• It is very important to season the ground beef for easy hamburger vegetable soup as it browns.  We use about 1 teaspoon of salt and a 1/2 teaspoon of black pepper. Be sure to taste the vegetable hamburger soup right before serving too to see if it needs any more salt and pepper.
• For our vegetable soup with ground beef, we use Original V8 juice, but if you want a bit more kick, go with the spicy version.
• The best part of making a hamburger vegetable soup with V8 juice is that you are getting all the tomato flavor and extra servings of vegetables.
• In order to get the vegetable soup with hamburger to all cook at the same rate, dice the potatoes small to match the size of the frozen mixed vegetables.
• We use mixed vegetables with corn, carrots, peas and green beans because that’s what our kids like the best, but you can use whatever frozen vegetables you prefer. Lima beans would be a nice addition, or add a second bag of corn or peas or whatever your heart desires.
• Hamburger vegetable soup with potatoes gets even tastier as it sits in the fridge. Try making a double batch and eating it for several meals throughout the week.
• We’ve even been known to use Bloody Mary mix in soups and entrees too. Try our Bloody Mary Beef Vegetable Soup and Bloody Mary Lasagna.

What to add to vegetable soup for flavor?

If your soup is suffering from a case of bland, check your pantry, cabinet or refrigerator for some of these simple ingredients to give your vegetable soup more flavor.

• Salt and Black Pepper (simple but essential for flavorful soup)
• Diced onion or onion flakes
• Garlic, garlic salt or garlic powder
• Fresh squeezed lemon juice
• Dried herbs (basil, parsley, oregano, bay leaf, etc.)
• Tomato paste
• V8
• Parmesan Rind
• Butter or Olive Oil (just a tablespoon or two)
• Better than Bouillon
• Vinegar, any variety
• Chicken or beef broth

Soup Ideas

We are obsessed with soup! Here are 12 new soup ideas for fall and winter.

1. Crock pot Taco Soup
2. Tuscan Sausage and White Bean Soup
3. Slow Cooker Chicken Corn Chowder
4. Collard Greens and Bean Soup
5. Zero Point Weight Watchers Green Bean Chili
6. Instant Pot Potato Soup
7. Crock Pot Chicken Chili
8. Low Carb Tuscan Soup
9. Low Carb Chorizo Taco Soup
10. French Onion Soup
11. Broccoli Cheddar Soup with Sausage
12. Frozen Meatball Vegetable Soup

Can V8 substitute for tomato juice?

Yes, V8 juice is a great substitute for tomato juice in any recipe. I use the two interchangeably.

Can you make vegetable soup with v8 juice?

Yes, using V8 juice is my standard way of making vegetable soup. Use V8 in a 1:1 ratio for tomato juice.

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