Easy Weeknight Hamburger Soup with Sweet Potatoes

This Easy Weeknight 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 all 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.

If you're into soup recipes you can make on a weeknight, be sure to check out this one for Healthy Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup (no beans) too!

Here's what you'll need to make this hamburger soup with sweet potatoes recipe:

• 1 lb ground beef
• Onion
• 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
• Garlic
• Dried basil, dried oregano and salt and pepper

See recipe card below for quantities and instructions.

Here's how you'll make this hamburger soup:

What makes this an "easy" hamburger soup recipe are the straight-forward steps:

1. Cook the celery and onion in a little oil over medium heat in a large pot
2. Add the ground beef, cook it (see below-some commenters cooked the beef first so no extra oil is needed.)
3. Once the ground beef is cooked through, add the canned tomatoes, tomato paste, beef broth, diced sweet potato and peppers, garlic, basil and oregano to the pot. Stir to combine.
4. Turn up heat to medium-high, cover and bring to a slow boil. Then reduce heat to low-medium, cover, and simmer for about 20 minutes or until the sweet potatoes are softened.
5. After 10 minutes, add the frozen corn. While the soup simmers, add salt and pepper to taste.

See recipe card below for detailed instructions.

Substitutions

Can I use regular potatoes instead of sweet potatoes in this recipe?

Yep! If you don't the sweet potatoes, just replace them 1:1 with regular potatoes.

This recipes calls for about 2 - 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 try using 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.

I have a big package of ground beef? What can I do with the leftovers?

A few ideas for your leftover ground beef:

• You can make an easy meatloaf and freeze it for later
• Try this delicious soup: Easy Weeknight Hamburger Soup with Sweet Potatoes
• 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

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.

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.

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