This Easy Weeknight Hamburger Soup with Sweet Potatoes (gluten-free) is a healthy and filling meal that the whole family will love.
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
- Garlic
- Dried basil, dried oregano and salt and pepper
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.
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
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
- Healthy Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup (no beans)
- 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
Easy Weeknight Hamburger Soup with Sweet Potatoes
This Easy Weeknight Hamburger Soup with Sweet Potatoes is great for a healthy and filling meal that the whole family will love. Plus, leftovers are super yummy too!
Ingredients
- 1 small sweet onion finely diced
- 3 stalks celery diced
- 1 lb lean ground beef 0.5 kg
- 1 - 28oz can canned diced tomatoes 796ml
- 1/3 cup tomato paste 1 small can (90ml)
- 4 cups beef broth
- 1 large sweet potato about 2.5 cups diced
- 1 red pepper diced
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 2 Tbsp dried basil
- 2 Tbsp dried oregano
- 1 cup frozen corn
- 1 tsp salt
- Pepper to taste
Instructions
- Heat 1 Tbsp of olive oil in a dutch oven or other large pot on medium heat. Dice onion and celery.
- Cook diced onion and celery in the oil for approximately 3-4 minutes, until the onions start to become translucent and the celery softens. Stir often. Season with a little salt.
- Add ground beef and cook until the beef is cook through, about 6-8 minutes, breaking up the clumps with a wooden spoon. Again, season with some salt and pepper.
- Once the 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.
- 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.
- After 10 minutes, add the frozen corn. While the soup simmers, add salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve with shredded cheese, sour cream and cilantro on top.
Notes
This recipe makes about 12 cups of soup. Leftovers are good in the fridge for 3 days.
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This was delicious! I fried the hamburger meat first so that the drippings would be enough to cook the onions and celery. That way, no extra oil was needed.
Hey Kristen – so glad you enjoyed it! I love the idea of cooking the hamburger meat FIRST to cut the extra oil. Right on. Thanks for commenting 😄
This sounds delicious , ….my husband &I aren’t able to add tomato paste to recipes because of the acidity, heartburn, and stomach issues , any suggestions to boast the flavor ….I’ll cook the hamburger first as well , … we are great soup lovers so this will be on the menu , …is it able to be frozen ., thinking about the sweet potatoes
Hey Sharon,
Thanks for the comment. I totally hear you on the heartburn (I have the same thing).
To keep the flavour up and thicken the soup (as the paste helps here too), you could try stewed drained tomatoes for a similar flavour comparison (will give you a little more water – have to drain well) OR if more tomatoes isn’t great for the heartburn too, some people will make a “paste” from red peppers – for a similar texture, one would de-seed, chop, puree and then simmered to reduce the moisture.
Check this article out if you want more details: https://www.oola.com/life-at-home/2458892/5-possible-substitutes-for-tomato-paste/
I’ve frozen half of the recipe once and it was fine. Yes, the sweet potatoes loose a little shape/texture naturally. It wasn’t frozen long – maybe a couple weeks.
Hope this helps!
April
Lovely!! Thanks for sharing…….
Thank you! I hope you love it 🙂
I Like this recipe I will try this at home.
Thank you! Hope you enjoy it👍