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

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• Author: Sarah
• Cook Time: 8-9 hours
• Total Time: 8-9 hours

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

1. Dice 1 onion, 1 cup carrots and  drain beans
2. Cut stew meat into 1 inch pieces
3. Place all ingredients in slow cooker, except Parmesan cheese
4. Cook on low 8-9 hours
5. Garnish with Parmesan cheese

Freezer Bag Instructions:

1. Dice 1 onion, 1 cup carrots & drain beans
2. Cut stew meat into 1 inch pieces
3. Place all ingredients except parmesan cheese into gallon size, freezer safe bag
4. Label & lay bag flat in freezer
5. Get bag out of freezer the night before you plan to cook it
6. Place contents of bag into slow cooker
7. Cook on low 8-9 hours
8. Garnish with Parmesan cheese