If you haven’t heard of the Best Cheeseburger Soup recipe, you need to keep reading. It is a family favorite dinner recipe at our house. It is basically a cheesy ground beef soup with amazing flavors that make you feel like a cheeseburger. You can make this easy ground beef soup recipe for a simple dinner recipe and have plenty as leftovers for lunch the next day. With the spices, chicken broth, and Velveeta cheese used in this recipe, (YES I said Velveeta!) you cannot go wrong with this soup.
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make our cheeseburger soup recipe, you need the following ingredients:
- Lean ground beef
- Butter
- Diced onion
- Shredded carrots
- Diced celery
- Dried basil
- Dried parsley flakes
- Cubed potatoes
- Chicken broth
- All-purpose flour
- Velveeta cheese
- Milk
- Salt
- Pepper
- Sour cream
- Fresh Parsley
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How to Make Our Best Cheeseburger Soup Recipe:
- Grab your large saucepan and add in the ground beef and brown it until it is no longer pink.
- The drain the grease from the pan and set the meat aside in a small bowl for later.
- In the same saucepan, melt 1 tablespoon of butter over medium heat.
- Then, add in the diced onion, shredded carrots, diced celery, a sprinkle of basil and parsley on top and saute all of the vegetables together until they are tender. This should take about 8-10 minutes.
- Next, you are going to add in the cubed potatoes, chicken broth, and cooked ground beef (that you set aside) to the saucepan and let the ingredients come to a boil.
- Once it has reached the boiling point, turn down the heat and let it simmer covered until the potatoes are tender. Depending on the size you cut them it should take about 10-12 minutes.
- While the soup is cooking, in a small skillet, place the remaining 3 tablespoons of butter and melt it over medium heat.
- After the butter has melted, add in the flour and whisk it together until it begins to get nice and bubbly. Doing this you are creating your rue for the soup.
- When the flour mixture becomes bubbly add it to the soup and mix it in.
- Then, turn the temperature to slow and stir in the Velveeta cheese, milk, salt, and pepper.
- Continue stirring it all together until the cheese has completely melted.
- After the ingredients are all melted and combined, remove the soup from heat and serve it in a bowl with sour cream and some fresh parsley and enjoy!
Healthy Ground Beef Alternatives:
I know not everyone is a fan of ground beef, and that is okay! Or maybe you are, but you want to change it up and make it a little healthier, then let’s find some great alternatives to using beef for this recipe. Take a look over at Better Homes and Garden’s list of Healthy Meat Substitutes on what you can use in place of the ground beef for this recipe.
We have only made this recipe using Velveeta. Shredded cheddar cheese will work, but it might not be as creamy as when you use Velveeta.
Recipe adapted from Taste of Home.
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Cheeseburger Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 4 Tablespoon butter, divided
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 cup shredded carrots
- 3 celery stalks, diced
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
- 3 potatoes, cubed
- 3 cups chicken broth
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- 16 ounces Velveeta cheese, or 2 cups shredded cheese*
- 1½ cups milk
- salt and pepper, to taste, about ½ teaspoon of each
- ¼ cup sour cream
- fresh parsley, optional garnish
Instructions
- In a large saucepan, brown ground beef until no longer pink. Drain grease (if desired) and set meat aside.
- In that same saucepan, melt 1 Tablespoon butter over medium heat. Add in onion, carrots, and celery. Sprinkle basil and parsley on top. Saute until vegetables are tender (about 8-10 minutes).
- Add potatoes and broth, then add ground beef back to the saucepan; bring the mixture to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, until potatoes are tender (which will take about 10-12 minutes).
- While the soup cooks, place remaining butter (3 Tablespoons) in a small skillet over medium heat on the stove top.
- Add flour and whisk together until butter starts to cook and get bubbly. Add butter/flour mixture to the soup. Reduce heat on stove top to low and stir in cheese, milk, salt and pepper; stir until cheese is melted.
- Remove soup from stove top and stir in sour cream. Top with additional fresh parsley if desired.
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I used cheddar cheese and it worked beautifully to add it to the butter/flour mixture after it thickened. Just whisk until it’s all melted. Thanks for a great recipe!
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My whole family couldn’t get enough of this soup, and two of them don’t even like soup that much! They told me many times if we could please make this soup again. I used onion powder and a bag of shredded sharp cheddar cheese- because that’s what we had, and it worked out great.
So glad the family liked the soup!!
Love this soup! Instead of making a rue, I thickened this soup with instant mashed potatoes flakes, and I added broccoli to make it a little heartier!