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Vegetable Beef Soup
 
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Prep Time: 30 Minutes
Cook Time: 60 Minutes
Ready In: 90 Minutes
Servings: 8
My moms recipe. Very good old fashioned soup. The stock is beef flovor, not tomato based.
Ingredients:
1/2 lb pot roast or 1/2 lb steak
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon barley
4 carrots
4 stalks celery
1 medium onion
1/4 head green cabbage
1/2 of a turnip
1 large tomato
6 potatoes
2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon parsley flakes
1 (12 ounce) package frozen peas
1 (12 ounce) package frozen corn
1 tablespoon beef base or 4 beef bouillon cubes
Directions:
1. Cut beef into 1 inch pieces.
2. Melt butter in a cast iron skillet over medium heat. Add beef, brown very well on all sides. Add 1 cup of water to skillet and stir to loosen the drippings in the skillet. Pour beef, water with drippings into large dutch oven .
3. Add an additional 8 cups of water to dutch oven. Begin cooking over low heat.
4. Add barley.
5. Slice carrots and celery into 1/4 inch slices. Add to water.
6. Dice in medium pieces onion, tomato and turnip and add.
7. Coarsely chop cabbage and add.
8. Peel and cut potatoes into 1 inch pieces and add.
9. Add salt and pepper.
10. Bring soup just to a boil, turn heat down to low and simmer 1 hour 10 minutes.
11. Add parsley flakes frozen corn and peas simmer 20 minutes.
By RecipeOfHealth.com