How to Cook Tasty Vegetable beef soup

Vegetable beef soup. This Vegetable Beef Soup is the perfect way to use up all those summer veggies! It's perfectly hearty and filling thanks to the abundance of vegetables and the tender chunks of beef. So many beef soups are watery and dull.

Try this vegetable beef soup recipe and get more comfort food recipes and ideas from Food.com. Loosely based on a gourmet cooking magazine's recipe for Beef Barley soup, I didn't have any barley. This vegetable beef soup is made with tender chunks of beef, plenty of vegetables and potatoes, all simmered in a tomato broth. You can have Vegetable beef soup using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Vegetable beef soup

1. You need 1-1 1/2 lbs of stew meat cut into sm pieces(any meat or turkey).
2. Prepare 2 cups of fresh green beans.
3. Prepare 2 cups of baby carrots cut small.
4. You need 1 cup of red potatoes cut small.
5. Prepare 20 oz of crushed tomatoes.
6. Prepare 1 can of corn.
7. You need 1 can of rotel(I used mild).
8. It's 1 can of seasoned black beans drained and rinsed.
9. It's 1/2 of onion chopped.
10. It's 1 tsp of minced garlic.
11. You need 1 tbs of chia seeds soaked (optional).
12. Prepare of Morton's nature's seasoning.
13. It's of Salt and pepper.
14. Prepare 2-3 cups of Chicken broth.

A hearty one pot meal that's perfect for a cold night! Can I Make This Vegetable Beef Soup Ahead? Soup is great for making ahead, and this easy vegetable beef soup is one of the best because the flavors just get better as it sits. On a whim I decided to cook vegetable soup.

Vegetable beef soup step by step

1. In a pan add onion and cook until soft. Add minced garlic and stir for about 30 seconds. Add stew meat, or your choice of protein, season to taste and cook through..
2. While meat is cooking snap green beans, cut carrots and potatoes. Rinse them and put them in crock pot. Add corn, crushed tomatoes and rinsed black beans and rotel. Add about a cup of chicken broth, stir and season to taste..
3. When meat is finished add to crock pot and stir, add soaked chia seeds if using. Add more chicken broth until completely covered. Stir cook on high for 4 hrs then on low until the veggies are cooked through and meat is tender..

Having never made vegetable soup I was a little leery especially since my husband. Actually, I have already shared quite a bit of the deliciousness from my freezer with friends. Nothing beats my Mom's slow-cooked vegetable soup. It's a labor of love that starts with stew meat in the slow cooker overnight and is finished the next day with tons of fresh veggies. This homemade vegetable beef soup is super easy to make, so hearty and filling.