Mom's Hamburger Vegetable Soup

When you are feeling under the weather, you rally don't want to spend time in the kitchen cooking. This is an easy recipe, full of good, healthy vegetables that will put you on the road to feeling better in no time.

Mom used tomato juice that she canned from vegetables in her garden. If you can do that, it will put this recipe over the top.  We use extra garlic in ours because we like garlic. It also has many health benefits like helping fighting against colds.

Ingredients

1 lb. ground beef
1 onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 (36.) oz can tomato juice, or your home canned tomato juice
2 to 3 potatoes, peeled and diced
2 carrots, chopped fine
2 stalks celery, chopped fine
1/4 head cabbage, shredded or chopped fine
1 (14.5 oz. can green beans, undrained
1 (14) oz. can whole kernel corn, undrained
3 or 4 beef bouillon cubes
1 tsp. Worcestershire
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. basil
1/2 to 1 tsp. marjoram
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
salt and pepper to taste

Directions

In a large cast iron Dutch oven pot, brown the ground beef, onion, and garlic. Season with salt and pepper as desired/  Cook until the beef is no longer pink.  Drain off grease.

Pour in the tomato juice.  Add potatoes, carrots, celery, cabbage, green beans, whole kernel corn, beef bouillon cubes, Worcestershire, garlic powder, basil, marjoram, and cayenne pepper.  

Bring the contents to a bubble.  Cover and reduce heat to low.  Cook and simmer for at least one hour, or until the vegetables are tender.  Season with salt and pepper as desired. 

Serve.

Notes

Instead of using marjoram and basil, you can use Italian seasoning.

Frozen vegetables can be used in place of canned vegetables.  You may need to add a bit more water if it has too much tomato flavor for you.

If you don't like certain vegetables, leave them out or use a vegetable you do like.