Easy Beef Pasta Soup from Kelli’s Kitchen
Y’all know me pretty well by now and you are aware that I have learned to enjoy cooking but I love a good shortcut unless it is the weekend. This is a weeknight soup for those cold rainy nights – like we are having this evening. It takes no time at all and a big plus is that it incorporates one of Mr. Picky Eater’s favorite convenience foods: Hamburger Helper. When I first started the blog back in January of 2012 I began making all kinds of new-fangled food, as he called it – sometimes a colossal failure but most times not however I wanted to make something familiar for him at least once per week. I found this recipe on the Betty Crocker website and figured I would give it a try. Turns out that we all like it! I have changed it up over time to fit our family likes but if you click on the link in the name Betty Crocker, you will see the original recipe.
Start out with these things:
Easy Beef Pasta Soup from Kelli’s Kitchen
Hamburger Helper Soup
1 lb hamburger meat
1 box Hamburger Helper Beef Pasta
½ teaspoon basil
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1 small onion chopped
6 Cups of water
2 cloves crushed garlic
2 Tablespoons fresh parsley
**the original recipe calls for one jar of Mushrooms but that’s not going to pass the MPE test!**
Easy Beef Pasta Soup from Kelli’s Kitchen
Directions:
Brown the meat with onions and garlic then drain.
Put that back into the Dutch oven with the water, sauce mix, basil and black pepper bringing to a boil then simmer with a lid on the pot for 10 minutes.
Take the lid off and bring back up to boil and add the pasta.
Once again put the lid on and simmer on low for 10 more minutes and serve.
Easy Beef Pasta Soup from Kelli’s Kitchen
You have weeknight soup and it’s hearty and tasty!
This recipe has 1 lb. of left over taco meat from the night before and a few red pepper flakes to give it some spice.
I wasn’t paid by Betty Crocker to review this recipe – I just really like it and for those of you who don’t have everything you need for all-day homemade soup or don’t have all day but soup would hit the spot – this is the recipe for you AND there was only 1 cup of leftovers after 5 bowls were polished off – MPE had two!
Enjoy!
Easy Beef Pasta Soup from Kelli’s Kitchen
I think we are married to the same man!!! My Mr. Picky would not eat mushrooms either…and it very suspicious when I make anything gourmet! He would love this soup…homey and comforting 🙂
He loves it and I promise – it’s pretty darn tasty! 🙂
That looks good! I am going to have to make this. Thanks for the great idea.
I KNEW you would love the Hamburger Helper part of it – I can’t believe I haven’t told you about it before!
This looks delicious! I’m always looking for quick and easy weeknight recipes. I’m usually too tired to want to cook when I get home from school. And this would be perfect. Your Mr. Picky Eater is lucky you have a cooking blog, my men wish I had a cooking blog instead of a sewing blog. 🙂
This looks so warming and delicious 😀
Cheers
CCU
The only way I could make this is if I hid the Hamburger Helper box, before AND after making the soup. Maybe I’ll look online for a recipe for Hamburger Helper/Beef Pasta. Now that I have all this time on my hands. LOL!!
Thanks, Kelli. You are amazing.
That looks very comforting and ymmy! I never would have thought of making a soup from it 🙂
I actually don’t like mushrooms, either. Brian does but…that’s too bad. 🙂 I can totally picture a bowl of this on a cold winter night.
This sounds pretty delicious! I would’ve never thought of making soup with Hamburger Helper!
If MPE has two bowls, it must be very good. 🙂
When I got my first apartment in college and was really able to cook for myself, I bought hamburger helper a lot–kind of as a protest b/c mom would not buy it for us at home growing up. She made homemade. :).
This soup is pretty darn good – but we only had the tuna helper casserole dish and I loved it but they don’t make it anymore.
Can this be done with other Hamburger Helpers? Is there a rule of thumb for these kind of soups. I love a good pot of soup and this one sounds great for a quickie!!!
Yes, it can or shall I say – probably? I made up a quick soup just 1 week ago when it turned cold for a day. I used the Velveeta skillet dinner – cheesburger. Do you know the one I’m talking about? Anyway, I made it the same except I added a can of mild Ro-Tel only I used Red Gold Ro-Tel-like stuff and then made it just like the recipe……..I did add shredded velveeta at the end………turned out wonderfully!
Yes, I know the one you mean. The one I use the most is potato stroganoff . To which I add fresh or caned spinach and adding liquid from the can to what is called for on the box. And when I brown meat I add onion and bell pepper and of course garlic to taste. I like a lot.
By adding one more veggie on the side, you have a balanced meal.
That sounds great! I must try that next time we make it.