Beef Soup Recipes: Delicious Meals to Warm Up Your Stomach and Soul

Today’s collection of hearty beef soup recipes features ideal comfort food, with fork-tender beef chunks and an abundance of vegetables that have been cooked in a flavorful broth.

What Cut of Beef is Best for Soup?

Chuck roast and sirloin steak are the greatest pieces of beef to use in any soup. When cooked in soup, they always provide tender, succulent meat.

Chuck roast is quite difficult to cook and requires time to get soft. We recommend using a slow cooker or Instant Pot for this cut for convenience and the best results.

Collection of Beef Soup Recipes

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Taco Soup Recipe

We love a recipe that uses only one pot. This Taco Soup involves dumping meat, veggies, and cheese in a stew and simmering them all in one go. You’ll reap hot Mexican flavors you can enjoy with a simple pico de gallo.

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Beef Stew Recipe

This stew is everything you could ask for in a weekday meal. Cooked in one pot, the chunky mix of peas, carrots, and potatoes delivers taste and texture in one go. It’s guaranteed to satisfy.

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Instant Pot Beef Stew Recipe

Thanks to the Instant Pot, your stews can go off without a hitch. The bonus is a delightful meal of unmatched red wine and brown gravy aromas where you did only half the work.

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Vegetable Beef Soup Recipe

If there’s anything you should have on your menu, it’s a gratifying stew or soup for rough days. This veggie medley is nourishing and comforting to the body and soul.

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Meatball Soup Recipe

A good soup almost always disappears by the end of the meal. Make a big batch of this meatball soup; if you’re lucky enough to have leftovers, you can enjoy it the next day.

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Instant Pot Beef Barley Soup Recipe

This barley soup is a rustic stew made with basic pantry ingredients. Add in some red wine to set it apart and give it a good simmer, and every guest will be satisfied at the gathering.

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Instant Pot Mississippi Pot Roast Recipe

Somehow, your menu feels incomplete without a good ol’ Mississippi Pot Roast. You won’t find a dish more fulfilling yet low effort to bail you out on hectic days. Save the recipe!

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Hamburger Soup Recipe

Filled with alliaceous flavors and nutritious veggies, this meat and pasta dish is a weekday lifeline. You’ll suffer no compromise of flavors with this one-pot stew that’s ready in under an hour.

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Stuffed Pepper Soup Recipe

We’re showing you our healthy take on one of the world’s greatest soups. It’s incredibly savory, heartwarming, and what we’d refer to as “soul food” at its best.

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Instant Pot Pot Roast Recipe

A dish like Pot Roast makes you fall in love with cooking — and dish duty. It requires the typical “dump and cook” technique to limit dirty dishes and increase your downtime without sacrificing its flavors. Now tell us, who doesn’t love that?

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What Can I Add to?

If you want to improve the taste, texture, and flavor of beef soup broth, here are a few simple techniques and additions:

1. Herbs, Spices, and Seasonings

Herbs and spices provide the soup broth with fragrance, taste, and intensity. In general, fresh herbs should be used at the end of cooking, whereas dried herbs and spices should be added early on.

Consider fennel seeds and marjoram for Italian tastes, cumin and coriander for Mexican, ginger and sesame oil for an Asian twist, cinnamon and cardamom for Moroccan, and turmeric and mustard seed for an Indian twist.

If your broth lacks flavorful depth, add tomato paste. It provides umami flavor and builds up complexity.

2. Vegetables

Almost all vegetables will produce a flavorful soup. Sweet potatoes, zucchini, squash, turnips, tomatoes, celery, mushrooms, onions, leeks, cabbage, kale, chard, potatoes, celeriac, cauliflower, and broccoli are just a few examples.

Also, keep in mind that not all veggies require hours of cooking time. Add root vegetables at the beginning of the cooking process and save tender veggies for the end.

Different Ways to Cook

There are several methods to cook beef soup recipes. It can be prepared on the stovetop, in a slow cooker or crockpot, or in an instant pot. The steps are quite similar, but there are a few secrets that make sure each version is delicious.

1. Stovetop

This strategy is effective for good reason. Homemade vegetable beef soups can always be prepared on the stovetop with no need for special equipment such as a slow cooker or instant pot.

Simply brown the meat in a saucepan for a few minutes before adding the remaining ingredients. Then bring the pot to a boil, cover, and simmer on medium heat for approximately 30 minutes. The supper will then be ready to serve.

2. Slow Cooker

A slow cooker helps you to cook the soup in advance and allows it to slow-cook while you run to work and return to a ready-to-eat meal!

For added flavor, brown or sear the beef in a pan before placing it in the slow cooker. This is optional but strongly suggested for optimal flavor.

Then, combine your preferred vegetables, beef broth, and seasonings in the slow cooker, cover, and simmer on low for 7-8 hours, until the meat is tender and juicy.

3. Instant Pot

Normally, beef takes a lengthy, slow boil to become tender. However, cooking the beef soup under pressure in an Instant Pot makes this process quick and simple. It also allows you to sauté the steak and veggies in the same pan, making cleanup a breeze.

The recipe starts with searing the beef chunks on both sides to enhance the rich, meaty taste. The result will be a delicious brown crust.

After browning the steak, add the veggies and toss everything together. Then, add the broth, seasonings, and spices before closing the lid. The cooking time for this soup is only 15 to 20 minutes, but the end product still delivers richness and flavor.