Vegetable Beef Soup

Warm up this fall with this quick, easy, inexpensive recipe. This hearty vegetable beef soup is loaded with protein and veggies.
This recipe makes about 8- 1 1/2 cup servings. Calories per serving: 282; Carbs per serving: 7g; Fat per serving: 9g; Protein per serving: 42g; Fiber per serving: 2g

Vegetable Beef Soup
Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 lbs Lean Ground Beef cooked and drained of fat
- 1/2 large onion diced
- 3 large celery stalks sliced
- 2 large carrots peeled and sliced
- 4 oz mushrooms sliced
- 6 oz zucchini sliced and quartered
- 2 TBS tomato paste
- 1 15 oz can diced tomatoes or 2 medium fresh tomatoes diced
- 4 cups Beef bone broth I use Sam's Choice
- 1/4 cup fresh basil chopped
- Salt and taste
Instructions
- In a large pot brown ground beef, when cooked all the way through, drain fat. Salt and pepper to taste.
- Add diced onion, celery, and carrots to pot, cook covered until vegetables are tender stirring occasionally.
- Add sliced mushrooms, sliced zucchini cooking for about 2-3 minutes.
- Stir in tomato paste and diced tomatoes.
- Add in bone broth.
- Add chopped basil.
- Bring to a simmer, let simmer for about 3-5 minutes.
- Serve alone or with your favorite side salad.