Vegetable Beef Noodle Soup
Ingredients
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- 1 lb lean ground beef
- 1 small onion finely diced
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 can (15 oz) Italian style stewed tomatoes
- 2 cans (15 oz each) beef broth
- 1 can (15 oz) petite diced tomatoes do not drain
- 1 can (15 oz) mixed vegetables drained
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1½ cups uncooked egg noodles
Instructions
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Brown the ground beef, onion, salt, and pepper in a large soup pot over medium-high heat. Crumble beef as it cooks. Once beef is no longer pink drain the grease.
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Blend up the can of stewed tomatoes in a blender and add to the soup pot with the cooked beef.
Add the beef broth, diced tomatoes, mixed vegetables, basil, and parsley. Bring to a boil.
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Once boiling, stir in the uncooked egg noodles, and cover the pot with a lid. Turn heat to low and let the soup cook for 12-15 minutes.
Ground Beef : Be sure and drain the grease from the ground beef so you don’t end up with an oily broth. Or, just buy the leanest ground beef possible and then you probably don’t have to worry about draining.
Use a yellow onion or a white onion for this recipe.
Beef Broth : When I make this recipe I use 1 can of regular, full-salt beef broth + 1 can of 50% reduced sodium beef broth. I find that for us, it’s the perfect salt combination. I don’t add any additional besides to the meat (as recipe calls for) and the canned beef broth. If you choose to use no salt or low sodium for both cans of broth, then you may need to add additional salt at the end.
Stewed Tomatoes : You don’t have to blend up the stewed tomatoes but I would recommend it. The stewed tomatoes provide so much flavor but they are really large pieces of tomato. If you don’t want to blend them up, just skip that step and add them directly into the pot. Maybe use a spoon to break them up inside the soup pot.
Canned Vegetables : Don’t let the canned vegetables throw you off. It’s so easy and you honestly would never even know they’re canned. If you are totally against it, then maybe try frozen mixed vegetables. If using frozen you will have to cook the soup for longer before adding in the egg noodles.
Tip : We love the egg noodles so I usually end up using a heaping 1 1/2 cups of them. Probably slightly closer to 2 cups.