This is my all time favorite vegetable beef soup recipe. It is one of those things my mother has always made with basic guidelines, but that I have never written down with exact amounts until now. She made it in an effort to duplicate her grandmother’s recipe, so it is a multi-generational favorite. Most of the time I make it in the fall and winter with vegetables frozen from the summer, but this year we have had quite a few cool, rainy days, so it was a perfect time to use vegetable fresh from our garden and a local farm.
The Best Vegetable Beef Soup
Ingredients
- 1 lb. stew beef (If the pieces are large, cut them into bite sized pieces.)
- 10 cups fresh or canned tomatoes, coarsely chopped
- 1 onion, chopped
- 4 cups okra, sliced
- 5 cups cabbage, coarsely chopped
- 4 ears corn, cut like you would to cream corn
- 4 large white potatoes, cut into bite sized pieces
Instructions
- Place tomatoes and beef in a large pot. Bring to a boil and then reduce to a simmer.
- Add the onion, okra, cabbage, and corn and simmer for at least one hour. Really the longer you cook it the better it seems to get, so you could leave this on for several hours.
- Add potatoes, and cook for an additional hour or until potatoes are cooked through.
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