Hamburger Soup with Sweet Potatoes {Easy Recipe}

This Hamburger Soup with Sweet Potatoes (gluten-free) is a healthy and filling meal that the whole family will love. Simple ingredients like sweet potato, bell pepper and corn make this a winning recipe🏅

Any soup on a weeknight can be a lifesaver but this soup with ground beef and vegetables checks alllll the boxes:

• Easy to make
• Needs simple ingredients
• Gluten-free and delicious

Inspired by a hamburger soup recipe I had growing up, this warm, delicious recipe is now a family favourite in my house now (honest to goodness the KIDS EAT IT!)

If you're into soup recipes, be sure to check out this one for Healthy Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup (no beans), a Roasted Butternut Squash Soup with Coconut Milk recipe or this Chicken Tortilla Soup (no beans)🥣

Browse all my gluten-free soup recipes here.

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• 📝Ingredients for hamburger soup
• 🔪Instructions
• 🔄Substitutions
• 🙋‍♀️What can I do with leftover ground beef?
• 🥡Storage and Leftovers
• 🥶Tips for freezing
• 🍽️What to serve with hamburger soup
• Want more?
• 📖 Recipe
• 💬 Comments

📝Ingredients for hamburger soup

• Lean ground beef
• Onion - sweet onion or shallot
• Celery
• Sweet potato - 1 medium
• 1 red or orange pepper
• 1 can diced tomatoes
• 1 small can tomato paste
• Frozen corn niblets
• Beef broth - low sodium, gluten-free
• Fresh garlic cloves
• Dried basil, dried oregano and salt and pepper

See recipe card below for quantities and instructions.

🔪Instructions

What makes this an "easy" hamburger soup recipe are the straight-forward steps. Here's what you'll do:

See recipe card below for detailed instructions.

🔄Substitutions

• Ground beef - if you want, you can sub in ground turkey for the ground beef in this recipe. And if you have more ground turkey, then definetly check out this easy and healthy soup that features ground turkey: Ground Turkey Soup
• No sweet potatoes? No problem! You can use regular potatoes instead of sweet potatoes in this recipe. If you don't have the sweet potatoes, just replace them 1:1 with regular potatoes. This recipes calls for about 2.5 cups of diced sweet potatoes.
• Frozen vs. canned vs. fresh corn - You can use frozen or canned corn for this recipe. If you have fresh corn on the cob, you can use it by carefully cutting the corn niblets off the kernel. Let any fresh corn you use cook a little longer in the soup as it will be pretty starchy, not being cooked at all. You can also use corn on the cob that was previously boiled or BBQ'd for this soup.
• Onion - I love the mild flavour that a sweet onion or shallots bring to this soup but you can also sub in a regular cooking onion. Just no red onion - wouldn't taste very good🚫

🙋‍♀️What can I do with leftover ground beef?

If you have a huge pack of ground beef, here are a few ideas for what to do with leftovers:

• You can make an easy meatloaf and freeze it for later
• Try this recipe for The BEST Cast Iron Skillet Burgers (EASY RECIPE)
• Up for a salad? Check out this Healthy Taco Salad with Ground Beef and Kidney Beans
• And if you really don't feel like making anything else, just wrap the ground beef tightly in saran wrap and pop into the freezer for up to 3 months. Take out the frozen beef the night before you want to use it

🥡Storage and Leftovers

This recipe will keep in the fridge for up to 3 days.

Once you make the soup and it's cooled down, store in a large container with a lid that seals shut in the fridge.

When you're re-heating the hamburger soup, you can heat it on the stove-top in a small saucepan until warmed through. Add a little broth if it's too thick for your liking.

You can also re-heat the soup in the microwave but be careful when you warm it up.

Be sure to cover the bowl of soup with a paper towel to prevent ground beef and tomatoes from being sprayed all over the inside of your microwave.

🥶Tips for freezing

You can freeze this hamburger soup for up to 1 month. To freeze: cool the soup down and then place in a large enough container with a lid that seals.

To thaw frozen soup, take out from the freezer the night before. Let it thaw out in the fridge overnight.

Then re-heat as above.

🍽️What to serve with hamburger soup

• Get those greens in - up the nutrition even more when you make this hamburger soup by serving it with some powerhouse veggies! Try my Simple Romaine Salad with Radish and Parmesan, this Kale Salad with Cranberries, or this easy recipe for Roasted Tenderstem Broccoli🥦

• A cornmeal muffin - this is THE best cornmeal muffin from Erin at Meaningful Eats. Gluten-free and delicious😋 And what goes better with hamburger soup than a classic cornmeal muffin!?

I hope you try this hamburger soup recipe it and love it like we do.

If you make it, I'd love to hear what you think!

Just leave your two cents in the comments below and I'll get back to you.

~April

PS. Want more gluten-free and healthy recipes?

Check out these out:

• Easy Chicken Soup with White Beans
• Spinach and Citrus Salad with Sweet and Spicy Almonds
• Sheet Pan Maple Dijon Chicken and Broccoli Bake
• Easy Winter Soup with Beans
• Butter Lettuce and Pomegranate Salad
• Easy Sweet and Spicy Shrimp
• Healthy Banana Bread with White Beans
• Easy Weeknight Ground Turkey Soup

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