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Beef and Vegetable Soup

Course Soup
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 6
Author Sandra | Sandra's Easy Cooking

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp. Olive Oil
  • 1/2 Onion
  • 4 Garlic Cloves
  • 1 Celery stalk
  • 1/2 lb Beef cubed for stews
  • 1 cup baby Carrots
  • 1/2 pound fresh French Green Beans or any on hand frozen works fine as well
  • 4 cups Water add more if needed
  • 1 Beef Boullion Cube
  • 1 teaspoon dried Parsley
  • 2 dried Bay leaves
  • 2 Large Potatoes peeled and cubed or 3 smaller
  • Salt and Ground Black Pepper to taste
  • 1 cup Tomato sauce
  • 1 teaspoon Tomato paste

Instructions

  1. Heat a large pot with 2 tbsp of Olive oil and add chopped onion, saute for a couple of minutes on medium-high temperature, just when they start to sweat, add minced garlic and chopped celery. Stir and allow it to saute for a minute or two.
  2. Add beef for stews (they are usually in cubes, but you may cube it yourself, too). Stir until and sear all the sides of the beef, 3-4 minutes.
  3. Add baby Carrots and French Green Beans (if the beans are frozen they will need less time to cook), stir all together and pour in water. You may add more water if needed as the liquid evaporate as it cooks.

  4. Add Boullion Cube, Parsley and Bay leaf then stir, cover with a fitted lid and allow it boil. When it boils, turn the heat on low and let it simmer for 45 minutes.

  5. Peel and cube the potatoes, and drop them in the pot, then season with salt and pepper.
  6. Turn the heat back on medium temperature and cook until the potatoes are completely cooked, about additional 15 minutes.
  7. The last step is to add tomato sauce and tomato paste. Stir, let it boil and cook for additional 5 minutes. Remove bay leaves before serving.
  8. Serve hot with cornbread and jalapenos, olives or similar.

Recipe Notes

You may use chicken instead and frozen green beans. If you using both the cooking time will decrease, since chicken does not need as much time as beef. Beef is always better when it cooks more on lower temperature until it starts to fall apart.