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Beef Soup Recipe: Southern Cuisine

Updated on July 19, 2012

Delicious Recipes - From the South

Searching for a good beef soup recipe? The South is famous for its delicious recipes. You're probably thinking that every region of the country has its own delicious recipes, right? Okay, I'll agree with that point, but there's something very special about southern food. Maybe I'm biased since I was born and reared in the Deep South, but southern cooks really do seem to put a lot of love and effort into their cooking. Most of us enjoy feeding people, from strangers to friends to family members. Personally, some of the best compliments I can get involve my cooking skills. I pride myself on creating and preparing delious recipes that appeal to the eye, the taste buds, the nose, and to the tummy. The one I'm sharing with you here is for homemade soup, a beef soup recipe.

Easy Vegetable Beef Soup Recipe

If you want to make this a really easy vegetable beef soup recipe, use leftover hamburgers or leftover meatloaf. Then you won't have to worry about cooking the ground beef. You can always cook the diced onions in the microwave in just a minute or so. Leftover roast beef is good in a beef soup recipe, too, and I've used leftover steak at times.

Another way to make this an easy vegetable beef soup recipe is to use canned corn and canned okra instead of frozen. To be perfectly honest, the soup won't be quite as tasty, but it will be much quicker to make than it would be to use fresh or frozen vegetables. Homemade soup is a wonderful way to put any leftover veggies to good use, too.

Beef Soup Recipe - Ingredients Suggestions

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Homemade Soup Recipes

I love homemade soup recipes! After the long, hot Southern summer, I usually can't wait until we get our first chilly night so that I can make a big pot of soup. For those of us in South Gerogia, this doesn't usually occur until early November. When the chill does finally arrive, we break out our homemade soup recipes and dust them off.

This soup is very tasty and hearty. It's a great way to use any leftovers you might have in the freezer or fridge. Johnny likes it with cornbread. He likes to crumble the cornbread into the soup and finish it off with a big glass of cold milk. I'm linking my article about how to make good ol' Southern cornbread, which is part of my article about how to make good ol' Southern cornbread dressing!

homemade vegetable beef soup
homemade vegetable beef soup

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Cook Time

Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 hour
Ready in: 1 hour 20 min
Yields: 12 servings

Ingredients

  • 1-2 pounds ground beef
  • 1/2 cup diced onion
  • 1 can cream of mushroom soup
  • 1 can cream of onion soup
  • 2 cans tomato sauce
  • 1 can diced tomatoes, with liquid
  • 1 can Chef Boyardee beefaroni or spaghetti
  • 1 cup niblet corn, fresh or frozen
  • 1 cup sliced okra, fresh or frozen
  • 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tablespoon sugar or Splenda
  • black pepper, to taste
  • garlic salt, to taste
  • onion powder, to taste
  • water, as needed

Instructions

  1. Brown the ground beef and onions and drain it in a colander. I rinse mine with HOT water to remove as much fat as possible.
  2. Rinse out the soup pot and add two cups of water. Return the beef and onions to the pot and heat on medium.
  3. Add the rest of the ingredients and more water, as needed. Stir well. Cover and simmer for an hour or longer, stirring occasionally.
  4. Leftovers are great in this soup! I've used steak, baked potatoes, squash, hamburgers, rice, and spaghetti. Just dice or chop whatever you're adding to your beef soup recipe!
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