howdy folks so welcome to the hillbilly
kitchen today we're going to be making
hamburger soup now hamburger soup is one
of those things that you really can put
in whatever you want however much you
want
somebody called me and said I should
really do an apron that said put it in
however much you like or however much
you like but this is an add however much
you like recipe for sure I have about a
pound a very lean ground beef and you
can use any grade of ground beef they
just happen to have this extra lean
stuff on sale when I was in the grocery
store so I bought it
if you use something that's fattier you
will probably want to drain it if not
completely drain it drain most of the
grease off of it and if you don't want
any ground beef in this this recipe
works really good for just a plain
vegetable soup you can totally leave the
beef out and make it a vegetarian dish
but start with the pound of ground beef
if you don't want the vegetarian version
I have about a pound of carrots here
that I have diced up and about a pound
of potatoes I also have a little less
than a pound of corn this is a 12 ounce
bag of corn and I usually open
everything but I left this in the bag to
show you this right here this is non-gmo
I had no idea that there was even a
commercially produced brand of corn that
was not labeled as organic that wasn't
GMO but sweet picks frozen corn from
sweet picks farms and they have a whole
line of vegetables they are actually all
grown in America so you're supporting
American farmers if you buy this and
they don't have Monsanto corn so I'll be
buying lots of this I just saw this and
I bought sweet picks before but I never
oh is that so anyway I'll definitely be
be buying more of that and you could
have to have some tomato in this recipe
when you don't have to but I always do
today I'm just using plain tomato sauce
you can add other stuff in it and one of
my favorite shortcuts or substitutions
in this recipe is to use spaghetti sauce
B now it's just bread nice so we always
have leftover spaghetti sauce so when I
make this a lot of times I'll use
spaghetti sauce in it and a lot of times
when my kids were little half of them
didn't eat spaghetti sauce so I had a
spaghetti sauce left over we'd have
spaghetti one night for dinner and a
couple nights later we'd have this soup
and I just use the leftover sauce in it
because I'm using plain tomato sauce
today I'm gonna add a little garlic
powder and a little onion powder to mine
not a lot and it really is to taste and
you can do other spices with this you
can add like Mexican spices to give it
almost like a chili flavor
only instead of beans you've got
vegetables in it I also have a cup of
chopped up onions I'm gonna put those in
my beef and brown my beef and I've got a
little bit of sugar here now because I'm
using this plain tomato sauce I am going
to add a little bit of sugar because the
sugar kind of cuts the acid in the
tomato sauce and it also really brings
out the flavor in it and I've only got
about a tablespoon it's optional the
corn when I make mine with corn
especially when my kids were little I
always add the corn at the end of the
cooking process because you don't want
to overcook corn it makes it tough and
also because half of my kids didn't like
corn in it so I would cook it then
divide the pot and put corn in half of
it and leave the coin out of the other
half so and another thing you can do
with this too is you can add some pasta
to it like some elbow macaroni noodles
something and that's a great adding in
it I used to do that a lot when the kids
were little but not always it's just
kind of what you're in the mood for and
I'm not adding any pasta to this today
because I actually have some leftover
pasta and I may add it to some of the
soup as I heat it up and heat it but
anyway let's get this started
oh and you do need some salt and pepper
gotta have salt and pepper
anytime you're cooking any kind of meat
gotta have a little salt and pepper
we're going to take our hamburger and
our onions and our salt and pepper over
here we're going to brown hamburger
first with the onions I should have
already had this pan preheated and I
usually do this over about medium heat
I'm probably gonna turn it up a little
bit because I'm going to be standing
you're watching it but if you're doing
other things in your kitchen your
cooking other stuff you won't want to
turn it up very high you'll want to cook
it on about beat him because ground beef
and onions will burn really really
quickly if you're not watching it it's
tucked up too high but on medium heat it
can kind of sit there and cook okay
while this meat is browning let's talk
about our vegetables for just a minute
now you can use canned vegetables in
this recipe you can use frozen
vegetables in this recipe they will both
speed up the process and we've talked
before refresh it's always best when you
have time and when it's available I know
it's not always available so if you
don't have it or you don't have time to
peel and dice up potatoes and carrots
you can certainly use canned stuff in
this and I have many times especially on
the most busy weeknights when the kids
were little if you use fresh though
carrots cook much faster or much slower
than potatoes your potatoes are going to
cook really fast and your carrots are
going to cook really slow so I have cut
in different sizes you can see the
difference in the size of my potatoes
and my carrots here and because the
carrots are smaller I can add the
carrots and potatoes at the same time
and they'll get done at about the same
time so if you're using fresh vegetables
you're going to have to be your carrot
it's a lot smaller than your potatoes
are you gonna have to add your carrots
about 15 minutes before you do your
potatoes now I kind of like the carrots
is small especially in soup because it
spreads the flavor out more evenly in
the soup but if you wanted to just do
them in slices and you're using fresh
ones I said just add them about 15
minutes before you do your little potato
chunks and that way all of your soup
will get done at the same time and your
potatoes won't be absolutely cooked too
much and disappear in your soup because
if they're the same size your potatoes
are gonna be way way overcooked are your
carrots are going to be really crunchy
okay I have my vegetables covered with
water here now I'm not going to dump all
of this water in my soup when I'm making
the soup this would be way too much
water I just had these covered in water
because I didn't want him to turn brown
while I was getting ready for the video
that's the only purpose for this water
I'm going to drain these but as I cook
the soup I will want to keep enough
liquid in it to keep the vegetables
covered and I also want to keep enough
liquid in it so that the consistency is
like soup and I'm just going to add
water to it I'm not going to add any
beef broth or anything like that
if you want to add that you can keep in
mind that does add quite a bit of salt
to it so you're going to have to adjust
your salt the salt and stuff that I'm
putting in mine is just what I'll need
for my vegetables so but if you're doing
I can broth or something it is going to
have salt in it I'm not a fan in the can
boss I said that before because they
almost all have the MS DS in them and I
am very sensitive to MSG's and food they
do cause migraines God proportioned the
MSDS that are naturally occurring in
food in the write-up of in the correct
amounts for our body that process them
so eating a tomato is not going to give
you a headache but if you eat something
that has those added MSG's in it and you
get migraines it probably is going to
give you a headache
if you eat very much of it at all okay
my hamburger is pretty well done and my
onions are starting to get tender you do
want to crumble your hamburger meat up
pretty good it so that it's evenly
distributed in the soup
it makes the flavor better and just the
overall texture of the soup a little bit
more desirable I think and you can see
this meat was really lean it doesn't
have hardly any grease in it at all so
I'm not going to drain it but if you're
using the regular ground beef or even
ground chuck you're probably going to
want to drain some of that grease off so
the first thing I'm going to add is my
tomato sauce because I want to start
getting that flavor in my meat and I
want it to cook in with my other
vegetables as soon as they start and
like I said you can use spaghetti sauce
in this if you want to
it would probably even be good with some
kind of salsa in it if you want the
Mexican flavors in it and that kind of
spices you can really season it any way
you want to all right and I'm going to
drain these vegetables
okay once you've got your vegetables in
there you are going to want to add
enough water to cover them up and they
do need to be completely covered and at
this point you're going to kind of get
your soup from the consistency that you
want it when it's done you may have a
little more liquid in it than what you
want to have when it's done but not very
much because this doesn't take a real
long time to cook and it's not going to
cook down much and this soup is not
going to thicken up much so whatever
consistency you get it out now is going
to be about the consistence you give
your soup
now I am gonna use filtered water in
this I said that before any time I cook
something like soup where the liquid is
gonna stay in the recipe are in the
finished product
I want it filtered now that took about
two cups I may have to add a little more
later but probably not mmm
yeah maybe I'll probably add a little
more later this is a little thicker than
I like it and if you were going to put
pasta in here you would probably want to
add it now if your carrots are this size
if your carrots are bigger weight to add
your pasta until you add your potatoes
and I have never personally tried it but
if you wanted to do a really low card
version of this you could probably use
on chunks of cauliflower instead of the
chunks of potato in this and it would
probably be very very tasty yeah I'm
definitely going to have a little more
water I put about two cups in there I'll
probably put another cup and a half or
so my sugar in the like I said that's
just about a tablespoon the onion powder
is just a season the tomato sauce a
little bit it's not really to season the
whole pot of soup because we had all
that onion in the hamburger meat if you
didn't do the hamburger meat though if
you were doing a vegetarian version of
this you would probably want to still
add the onion or it wouldn't have enough
flavor or you would have to add a lot
more onion powder or maybe some dried
minced onions or something I will add
more salt and pepper to this or the
potatoes and the care
the corn and stuff but I'm going to wait
until it's very close to being cooked
and taste them and add my salt and when
it's very close to being cooked because
it will take less salt to season them
once they're cooked then it does to add
it now
and then cook it the salt will lose its
flavor as it's cooked and I'll have to
put a lot more in it I have about three
cups of water in mine now you know I'm
going to see how that does and see what
it looks like after I've added the corn
and like I said I'm not going to add the
corn until the other vegetables start to
get soft this is about the consistency
that I like mine here I like so I'm
souping it and but you know not totally
watery and once this pop comes to a boil
we're just going to turn it down to
about medium little heat just so it's
simmered now we're going to let it sit
here and simmer until our potatoes and
our carrots are tender and then we'll
add our corn and we'll heat it enough so
that everything's heated good and
thoroughly and it comes back to a boil
it doesn't have to come back to a
rolling boil just enough so that we know
we have everything getting hot
okay our soups really boiling good now
so at this point you can turn it down
and put a lid on it you want definitely
want to put a lid on it either that or
you're going to have to stir it pretty
often to keep it from splattering all
over your stove yeah a little not only
keep it from splattering everywhere but
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you can see that's been popping pretty
good and without a lid it would have
been all over the stove and all over the
kitchen I said I don't like to add beef
stock to it but if you do you certainly
can and when I give these just a few
minutes then I'm going to test my salt
and my pepper and see how much salt and
pepper I need I like this little with a
little more pepper in it than most
people do but I usually don't add as
much as I like to the pot because I can
always add a little in my bowl and
that's something to keep in mind with
salt too some people like a lot of salt
and you can always add a little salt
soup in your bowls so you don't have to
get the pot of soup super salty just get
enough in there so that it's got some
flavor and I sprinkle we'll finish it
off for those people who like a lot and
they all seemed pretty done I think I've
done enough that I can add the corn and
cook it just a minute and it'll be
finger
now you do want to taste it because you
have to just the salt the pepper and the
onion and the garlic if you use the
canned broth you're probably not going
to need any more soup if you used the
spaghetti sauce instead of just the
plain tomato sauce all your spices are
going to be pretty good except for salt
and pepper and you'll have to add a
little salt and pepper probably a lot of
people comment and they say I wonder why
you don't taste it at the end of the
video like a lot of people do or they'll
ask why I don't taste it well my mama
told me not to talk with your mouth full
and I know they do these videos now
they're called mutt makes or something
works just somebody eaten food usually
it's not very appetizing looking food
either but I tried to taste stuff at the
end of videos as I was saying goodbye
the past and it does not work my mama
was right you shouldn't talk with your
mouth full
so don't taste the food at the end of
the video and I won't be doing MUC bakes
or whatever that is that they're called
I think I'm pronouncing that right but I
am going to taste this because I have to
adjust the spices well that's actually
pretty good I think it's got enough salt
in it I did add some after I put the
vegetables in there I didn't measure it
I just shook it in there and it really
is to taste how much salt and pepper
that you put I only put a tiny bit of
garlic powder in it because I don't want
the soup to taste the garlic in the soup
to be overpowering and you could add a
little fresh garlic when you cook your
hamburger meat I didn't have any so I
just used to call it powder and you can
also get the minced garlic cause I'm did
have some of you know on the spice aisle
that you add to it I just didn't think
about that I could have added that
my hamburger but at any rate wherever
you add it or whatever kind of garlic
you used to use and it's up to you again
how much you put I don't like a whole
lot in this just enough to accent it a
little bit okay it's pretty much back to
a boil now it's not a rolling boil but
that's plenty hot enough our corn is
heated good so it's safe to eat and
everything it does say you want to cook
it thoroughly
it certainly has far more ingredients
than just the liquid but it's not like
can see we're not making cans of beer
but that's all there is to that like I
said you can substitute about anything
you can add other stuff um you certainly
had peas in it turn the stove off and
take this over here now this would be a
good recipe for those programmable pots
like the sim pot that we reviewed on
here are the instant pot you could cook
this entirely in one of those you can
even Brown your beef in them and then
just throw your vegetables in and put
the lid on it and program it for a
couple of minutes and it'll all be done
even in those though I will probably add
my corn after it was cooked because it
really does make corn tough if you boil
it far too long so save that until the
end when I eat this I don't need
anything else with it my daughter Alex
she likes half pan rolls with it so if
you want bread with it some kind of
rolls is great this makes a really good
lunch or dinner in the winter because
it's got so many vegetables in it it's
gonna fill it up but it's quick enough
that you can really make it for lunch if
you want and it's good for those big
gatherings because you can double and
triple the recipe you can stretch it
with as much meat as I had in there
I really fed have doubled the vegetables
and it would have still been okay so if
you need to stretch your meat and
stretch your money a little bit you can
cut the beat down and add more
vegetables you know like with a pound of
carrots and pound the potatoes and stuff
you could have just done a half a pound
of meat to stretch it more or if you've
got a feed crowd you can add twice as
many vegetables it's a good one to fix
in the morning when you gotta leave and
put it in a crock pot or something just
Brown your beef and then throw
everything in the crock pot but I hope
you give this a try this winter because
it is certainly good on cold dreary day
like what we have here today we were
supposed to have sunshine 70 degrees we
have clouds drizzle and 58 degrees so we
went straight from roasting this summer
to freezing to death this fall okay well
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Hamburger Soup. This is a hearty, chunky soup that's perfect on a cold day. This is a one pot meal that's easy to make, and puts all of that extra hamburger meat to good use. You can use fresh, frozen or canned vegetables. You can add pasta or any vegetables you have a taste for. I never make it the same way twice, but it is always delicious. Remember to put God first! :) Ingredients: 1 lb. of ground beef 1 medium onion 1 lb. of carrots 1 lb. of potatoes 1 to 2 cups of tomato sauce 12 ounces of corn Salt and pepper Onion powder Garlic powder Water