Italian Beef Soup Recipe
Sometimes, a girl just has to have soup. At least I do anyway! This Italian Beef Soup Recipe is definitely a delicious soup for me. It’s even one I could lose weight on if I wanted to!
The reason I decided to make this soup is simple. I wanted to save money and cook with ingredients I already had on hand. Since we buy a side of beef from our local farmer, our freezer is typically pretty packed with different cuts of beef. When I went digging to see what all we had left, I found several packages of stew meat. I always love how easy it is to throw stew meat into a quick slow cooker soup.
We always shop at Aldi for the majority of our groceries, because it saves us a ton of money, for our large family, and I already had cans of white beans, beef broth, diced tomatoes and carrots in my pantry,. Those are regular staples for us, that I typically pick up any time I do our big monthly grocery shopping trip. Since I cook from scratch all the time, my spice cabinet is pretty well stocked as well.
Anyway, I had tried to make this soup using the slow cooker option on my Instant Pot, but I ended up not doing it correctly and when it was time to eat, it wasn’t ready yet. The carrots were still crunchy! So, instead of freaking out, I decided to pressure cook it in the Instant Pot the rest of the way. It turned out fabulous! I just cooked it for 20 more minutes on Manual mode and that was perfect. This was after cooking for 4 hours on what I thought was high, using the slow cooker setting.
This recipe is part of one of my Freezer to Slow Cooker Subscription Plan weekly menus. (Sidenote: There’s currently 400+ happy subscribers who have joined the subscription and it’s growing steadily every day!) .
You can print this recipe below… and if you want to see a quick video of how I made it, be sure to scroll to the bottom and watch it. Enjoy!
Slow Cooker Italian Beef Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 lbs stew meat
- 1 onion
- 1 cup carrots
- 1 tsp oregano
- 30 oz beef broth
- 2 14.5 oz cans Italian Diced tomatoes
- 2 15 oz cans Great northern Beans drain
- 2 tsp onion powder
- Salt & pepper to taste
- Shredded Parmesan cheese for garnish
Instructions
- Dice 1 onion, 1 cup carrots and drain beans
- Cut stew meat into 1 inch pieces
- Place all ingredients in slow cooker, except Parmesan cheese
- Cook on low 8-9 hours
- Garnish with Parmesan cheese
Freezer Bag Instructions:
- Dice 1 onion, 1 cup carrots & drain beans
- Cut stew meat into 1 inch pieces
- Place all ingredients except parmesan cheese into gallon size, freezer safe bag
- Label & lay bag flat in freezer
- Get bag out of freezer the night before you plan to cook it
- Place contents of bag into slow cooker
- Cook on low 8-9 hours
- Garnish with Parmesan cheese
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