Beef and Vegetable Soup

[3 Meter Para Bellum]

Made some soup yesterday. I was pretty exhausted but I really wanted something good and hearty for dinner, so with my two brothers' help we got two big Instant Pots made. Had leftovers today.

Here is what a typical set of vegetables before prep looks like. The knife on the board is a gyuto that I was given to test run for a week by the maker, but isn't what I used yesterday. Also only a few of those onions went into the soup, heh.


This was my kitchen weapon of choice for the most recent batch, my Dexter Chinese Cleaver. Perhaps better referred to as a Chinese Chef Knife, or Cai Dao as the Chinese call it.

In the pot!

And ready to eat!

 

[JD338]

Looks delicious!

JD338

 

[DrMike]

'Fraid that'd get in my mouth!

 

[Slimfinn]

Looks yummy

 

[Bruce Mc]

Looks laripen, where's my corn bread. I think you need to post more detailed recipes with these photos.

 

[3 Meter Para Bellum]

Looks laripen, where's my corn bread. I think you need to post more detailed recipes with these photos.

Some of these I do have stored on my computer, so I can post the recipes easy! Others though I am still trying to figure out what it is my Mom would put in it, but she rarely measures things very carefully, so I still don't know how much to do for certain meals, ha ha.

For this beef and veggie soup, it starts with 4 cups sliced carrots, 4 cups cut celery, and 3 large onions diced. We usually put some broccoli and cubed potatoes in too, but it is one of the things I don't have measurements for yet, so I winged it. Maybe something like four to six medium potatoes, and a couple average sized clusters of broccoli. The good thing is, even though we never do it exactly the same, it comes out great every time.

In each pot we put half of the diced onion and 1 pound of ground beef, seasoned with some salt and pepper. Saute that until the beef is done.

While the beef is cooking, we make 14 cups of beef broth using Better Than Bouillon.

When the beef is cooked through we throw in all the vegetables split between the pots. In addition each pot gets 2 cans of stewed (or diced) tomatoes, one 6 oz. can tomato paste, then 7 cups each pot of the beef broth.

This gets seasoned with a mixture of salt, pepper, granulated garlic, oregano, and maybe italian seasoning too, but this is usually handled by my Mom and seasoning is infamously lacking any measurements, so I have no real idea how much to do.

Once it is seasoned and stirred up we set the Instant Pots to the soup mode for 30 mins. Once the timer goes off, we let it set for 5 mins. before doing the pressure release.

As you might have guessed this is a lot of soup, and most people will probably only make half of that. The amount we make is enough to feed 5 adults and six kids twice, and have just a little bit left.