🌾 Agape Love Daily Chuckwagon Recipe🍲 Old-Fashioned Beef & Vegetable Camp Soup A dependable, warming soup—slow-simmered, nourishing, and full of comfort.
- Sarah Skaggs
- Feb 3
- 1 min read
🍲 Old-Fashioned Beef & Vegetable Camp Soup
A dependable, warming soup—slow-simmered, nourishing, and full of comfort.
Serves: 6–8Cook Time: 45–55 minutes
This is one of those “let it simmer and fill the house with warmth” kind of soups—perfect for busy days and cold evenings.
🥩 Ingredients
1 lb beef stew meat (or ground beef)
2 tbsp butter or bacon grease
1 small onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 carrots, sliced
3 celery stalks, chopped
3 medium potatoes, diced
1 cup green beans (fresh or frozen)
4–5 cups beef broth
1 tsp thyme
½ tsp black pepper
Salt to taste
Optional: bay leaf
🍳 Instructions
Brown the BeefIn a Dutch oven, heat butter or bacon grease. Brown beef until lightly seared.
Build the BaseAdd onion and garlic; cook until fragrant.
Add VegetablesStir in carrots, celery, potatoes, and green beans.
SimmerPour in broth. Add thyme, pepper, salt, and bay leaf if using.Bring to a gentle boil, reduce heat, and simmer 40–45 minutes, until vegetables are tender.
ServeRemove bay leaf. Ladle into bowls and serve with cornbread or biscuits.
🤠Chuckwagon Tip
Vegetable-heavy soups like this stretched meat and fed many—trail cooks often added whatever was on hand, making every pot a little different.
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