Written: 12/30/2022
Notes for making easy beef vegetable soup from leftovers
What
Beef vegetable soup made from leftover roast beef and frozen vegetables
Ingredients
Beef, frozen soup vegetables, red potatoes, tomatoes, tomato paste, garlic, chicken broth, barley, salt, pepper, herb de Provence, salt, pepper, sugar, mustard, red wine, Worcestershire sauce
Time
~35-50 minutes in a Dutch oven, depending on how much you’re making and if you’re using fresh ingredients or not
Steps
- Prepare the beef by cutting into chunks. Whether fresh or cooked, the steps remain the same
- Heat some vegetable oil
- Add diced/cut onions and garlic (I use squeezable garlic for even easier cooking) and cook until onions are translucent
- Add the beef (I happened to have a rib roast rib bone and put that in there, too)
- Add seasonings to taste
- Add any fresh vegetables after prepping them
- Add 1/2 to 3/4 of frozen vegetables
- Add barley
- Pour in carton of chicken broth (or beef broth)
- Taste to make sure you like it
- Cover with lid, lower temperature
- When things are boiling, taste test again
- Add remaining soup vegetables (this allows some of the vegetables to look more appealing)
- Let simmer
- Taste again
- Let sit for about 10 minutes or so. This will allow the flavor to get stronger.
- In the meantime, prepare the rest of the foods. Rice, bread…whatever you want.
Done!
