Zesty Beef and Vegetable Soup for the Crock Pot

Submitted by Chris from Kansas

"This is an easy soup with a slightly spicy base."

 

• Ready In: 8hrs 15mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 1 lb ground beef
• 1⁄2 cup chopped onion
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 cups pre-shredded coleslaw mix
• 1 (10 ounce) package frozen corn
• 1 (9 ounce) package frozen cut green beans
• 4 cups spicy vegetable juice
• 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can Italian stewed tomatoes, undrained
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon dried basil, crushed
• 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper

directions

1. Brown ground beef and onion in a large skillet. Drain off fat.
2. In a 3 1/2-5 quart crock pot, combine meat mixture and remaining ingredients.
3. Cover; cook on low heat for 8 to 10 hours or on high heat for 4 to 5 hours.

Reviews

[Darkhunter]

Excellent! Only change made was to add about 2 cups juice from draining some tomatoes that I had. As written, it was more of a stoup than soup. Nothing wrong with that, I just wanted a more soupy soup! Everybody absolutely loved this, and didn't mind eating leftovers! In fact, I had put extra in freezer, and my sister got it out right away. Thnx so much for posting, Chris. We will enjoy this again! Made for Fall 2008 My-3-Chefs.

 

[breezermom]

I used diced up round steak instead of ground beef to save calories. I think it would be better with the fatter ground beef! I had some cabbage I needed to use, so I chopped that up and added some carrots, since I didn't use coleslaw mix. This was a little tomato-ey for me, so next time I'd add some beef broth or stock to dilute the amount of tomato. I added a bay leaf to the other seasonings, and used Spicy Hot V8 for the veggie juice. Loved the heat in the recipe...I like it hot!

 

[bmcnichol]

Very good. I followed the recipe other then I used a 15 ounce can of corn and 15 ounce can of green beans as I am not a fan of frozen veggies. I also used petite diced tomatoes instead of stewed as I don't care for stewed tomatoes either. I used V8 juice for the vegetable juice and used 3 11 ounce cans. After everything was added I added about a handful more of slaw mix. I also cooked this on the stovetop instead of the crockpot. I cooked on the stove for about two hours. I really enjoyed this. I was looking for something different and this fit the bill.

 

[veenas]

I did modify this some with veggies I had on hand and tomato juice and beef broth instead of vegetable juice. Turned out super with the coleslaw mix ,kicking it up a notch, in my book. Thanks for posting!