I have an obsession with all things cheeseburger. It’s a problem sometimes when it causes me to wake up at 3 am and seriously consider traveling somewhere to get one… And I’m always dreaming up ways to create dishes that taste like cheeseburgers…things like Cheeseburger Pizza and Cheeseburger Meatloaf,or the Pioneer Woman’s Cheeseburger Salad. And of course, this amazingly delicious Crock Pot Cheeseburger Soup.
This is a great soup to make on a cold day – or a day that you’re going to be gone for a while. Or a cold day where you’ll be gone for a while. Hmm, now that I think of it, it’s great any day. You just throw your veggies in the crock and let them cook until tender. Later, you come back and add the cheese… can’t forget the cheese. That would be against my religion. Amen.
Just an FYI – whenever I make Crock Pot Cheeseburger Soup, I usually prep the ingredients the night before, while I’m making dinner. I chop the potatoes and cover them with water then place in the fridge…and I brown the hamburger and put it in there too – then I can just throw everything together in the crock the next morning.
Crock Pot Cheeseburger Soup
Ingredients
- 1 lb. ground beef browned
- ½ cup chopped onion
- ½ cup chopped pepper
- 1 14.5 oz Can diced tomatoes
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp oregano
- ½ tsp pepper
- 3 cups beef broth
- 4 cups diced potatoes peeled or leave the peels on for extra fiber
- ¼ cup flour I used white wheat
- 1 cup milk
- 8 oz shredded cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Combine the beef, onion, pepper, spices, tomatoes, broth and potatoes in your crock (I used a 5 quart).
- Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.
- About 30 minutes before it is time to eat, combine the flour and milk. Whisk until no lumps remain.
- Stir into soup.
- Add cheese and stir again.
- Cover and cook until soup is thickened…about 30 minutes.
- Serve with toasty bread!
I have made a soup like this without the milk, flour and cheese with a package of mixed veggies and some steak sauce (like A1) to season it. I call it either steak house soup or just hamburger soup. (More beef broth to replace the milk, of course.) It is gooood. This sounds good for my cheese loving family to switch things up.
Hope you enjoy! We love it!
Is the oregano dried leaf or ground? If you’re calling for dried and I use ground, I’ll have an over-oregano’d catastrophe. If you’re calling for ground and I use dried, there’ll be no oregano flavor! (Or, GASP, is it fresh!?) Come on, ‘fess up, woman! I need to know so I can make this delicious sounding cheeseburger soup.
I always use dried leaf. 🙂 Ha ha!
I have not even got half way thru your post and you mentioned cheeseburger salad. I have made “Big Mac” Salad and my kids love it! You for sure have to give it a try. I would love to tell you exactly how I made it but I tend to tweak recipes all the time!
This sounds yummy! Looking forward to trying it. I do have 1 question. I typically no longer use flour for thickening simply because in some recipes, the flour tends to make it taste ‘pastey’. I use corn starch. Do you think this will thicken ok using the appropriate water to cornstarch mixture?
Usually you need a bit more flour than cornstarch, so I would cut back the cornstarch a tad and see if it gets thick enough…if not, you can always add more! 🙂
What type of pepper?
I just use fresh ground black peppercorns – but you could use ground black pepper. Thanks Christine!
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Can’t wait to try this. I have been wanting to try adding regular cheese and not Velveta and wasn’t finding a recipe that did. Trying to cut down on processed foods (homemade mac n cheese, no helper meals) so glad I saw my aunt share your 100 non processed crockpot recipes
Dawn, I hope you love it!!! It’s a family favorite here. 🙂
I can’t tell you how excited I am to make this dish tonight. All of the recipes look amazing and that you use fresh ingred. yay!
Just had to tell you it was amazing!!!! We will try it again with ground chicken or turkey.
I’m so glad!!
Do you use the flour and milk just as a thickening agent?
Yep! I have this in the crock right now. 🙂
Love your blog! The recipes look so good. I tried this one tonight with just a little bit of change. I used a combo of hamburger and ground turkey and I used my home canned stewed tomatoes. The biggest change I made though was putting it in my pressure cooker instead of the slow cooker. It turned out great. I can’t remember the last time I used my slow cooker. Thanks for the great recipes!
I love my pressure cooker too!
I was thinking instead of the diced tomatoes, because I’m not a big fan of tomatoes, to add some tomato paste and a bit of mustard mixed to give it that cheeseburger taste! I’ve made cheeseburger meatloaf and the topping was a mixture of ketchup and mustard and it was that little perfect finishing touch! I cannot wait to make this!
Oh we loooooooooooooove Cheeseburger Meatloaf. It’s one of our favorites!
Oh my goodness!!! I made this tonight and it was So So good!!!! (My hubby hates tomatoes so I had to go without) but I added crumbled bacon in at the end for a fun kick! Yumm!!! I love this website!! Your fun and so real! And your recipes are easy and tasty!!!
BACON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3
Wow, this was great! Just made it and kind of butchered your recipe by forgetting diced tomatoes at the store and throwing in tomato paste instead, ate my pepper before I remembered I needed it for this recipe and threw in corn instead, forgot to brown the beef first so I just threw it into the pot with everything else….I was a mess. 🙂 But it still turned out really well, which means this recipe is going into my rotation. If I can screw it up and still make it taste good AND it uses real ingredients, it’s a winner!
LOL That literally made me laugh out loud! I’m so glad it worked out for you. 🙂
I made this today since I’m on the Jersey Shore, waiting for this blizzard to hit! Absolutely delicious! Thanks for the recipe ? Also, I cooked on high for 6 hours and it came out just fine! Thanks again!
Good to know, thank you! 🙂
What kind of peppers do you use?
Whatever I have on hand – green, red, yellow, or orange. They all work. 🙂
This was so yummy! I told my hubby what we were having for dinner (and then he smelled it all day, since I made it this weekend), and after dinner, he told me he had really looked forward to it, but the actual soup was even better than he was hoping! What a win! I really, really want to love my crockpot, but have trouble finding recipes that excite my family, so thanks for giving me a winner! (and of course I’ve printed off a bunch more of yours to try)
Hooray! That’s a big compliment! 🙂
Running short on time. Can this soup be cooked on stove top?
Absolutely!
i totally have my best ideas while in the shower 😉 this recipe sounds so good!
The bathroom is a good thinking spot. 🙂
I just wanted to let others know that this is fantastic with sweet potatoes in place of the regular white potatoes. It tastes great and has the benefits of added nutrition. It also makes a wonderful freezer meal since uncooked sweet potatoes don’t turn brown when frozen like regular potatoes. Also, if you have picky kids sweet potatoes are virtually undetectable when mashed in the bowl before giving to the kiddo since they are the same color as the cheese 🙂 I love love love this soup!
Thank you for this info! I was just thinking about whether or not sweet potatoes would work!
White sweet potatoes are the best! Not quite as sweet as the others and I use them in everything.
This may sound like a dumb question but the recipe calls for 8oz of cheddar cheese. Do you mean a cup of cheese or an 8oz package of cheese which is 2 cups? Thanks you.
8oz package. Cheese is generally done by weight oz. where liquids are done by…well…liquid oz.
We love this. So easy, ingredients ate always on hand and all 5 of us like it and get full! Thanks for sharing.
I made this for supper tonight, and it was amazingly good! Even better, my fussy hubby liked it! He couldn’t even tell the onions and peppers were in it! Thank you for a keeper!
How do you think coconut flour would be in this? Would it change the taste? We are not gluten free but my nephew is coming to stay and he is?
I know people say it works as a good thickener, but I just haven’t had any luck with it. 🙁 You could try it and see. Or just leave it out. Or try a smaller amount of arrowroot – maybe a tablespoon or two?
I used cornstarch instead of flour because I have celiac disease and it turned out awesome 🙂
King Arthur makes the best gluten free flour that I use when making a cheese sauce, turns out just like the wheat version. I prefer using it instead because the texture isn’t quite the same with cornstarch.
YUM! I mixed the flour in with everything else when I started this because I’m kinda lazy. Then we were so hungry after smelling it all afternoon we just forgot the milk! It was great though!! We’ll definitely make this again!!!
Ok, I have my same “tired” resolution for cutting calories. May be a dumb question, but is this a high calorie meal? I hate ground turkey, so I know I won’t use that. Any other suggestions for cutting calories if it is highly caloric? TRUTH: Even if you don’t, I’m still making this because it looks yummy! Smile. Thank you
The only thing in here heavy on calories would be the meat and cheese…thus CHEESEBURGER. If you don’t want to use beef or turkey, you could use ground chicken, ground venison, etc. You could also use a different type of cheese or cut back on the amount of cheese. That would be about all I could think of that might do it.
Can this be cooked on high for a shorter amount of time? I might try to it in an afternoon or for a lunch on a Sunday.
Usually cooking slower on a lower temp gives better flavor but I’m sure you can go higher and shorten the time some…not sure how much since I’ve not tried it.
Thank you for a great recipe making our Halloween night even better. We got home with our Annie (2) from a cold, rainy night of trick or treating to this yummy, hearty soup!
Can you prepare this ahead of time (chop, etc.) and freeze it? I’m trying to “cook” once a month and have meals ready in bags that I can just put into the crockpot. Thanks!
Yes, I think that would work just fine. 🙂
Do you just use the flour as a thickening agent? I’m gluten free, and wondering if I could mix corn starch with the milk instead. 🙂
Yep! Cornstarch would work just fine.
I was thinking you could maybe use heavy cream/cooking cream as a substitute too????
Made this with dry mustard and dill, since that’s how I want my cheeseburger (instead of oregano), and I used Rotel instead of tomatoes to spice it up! Sorry, but I used your recipe as a guide and customized it for our tastes!!
That’s what a recipe is for! 🙂 You take it and use it to create what works for your family. Glad you liked it!
This looks so good! I am going to try and make this but spicy with mushrooms, I can’t eat a burger without mushrooms!! 🙂
Sounds like my father-in-law. 🙂
made your Cheeseburger Soup today – it is incredible! My whole family loved it. I of course can’t cook potatoes evenly, so I had half cooked potatoes in the soup – but my family is use to that with me and potatoes 🙂
🙂 It’s all in getting them the right size – and that’s HARD. Glad you liked it!!
We are making this for supper tonight, having my husband pick up the milk needed on his way home from work. It smells great already!! THANKS for a great super easy dinner idea:)
I really hope you loved it!! 🙂
This look awesome! I can’t wait to try it on one of our crazy-nights! Thanks!!
Can I come over?
Oh yeah! The more the merrier! It’s crazy though – we usually eat in shifts on Tuesdays, that’s why I like to have something simple and crockpot-y so that we all get a decent dinner. 🙂
Some days are like that! 🙂
Stupid question- do you drain the tomatoes?
Not a stupid question at all. 🙂 Usually in recipes if I want the tomatoes drained, I make sure to note it beside the ingredient. So no, no draining needed. 🙂
Can’t wait to try it!! Looks so yummy! Looking forward to your cookbook next month!! Hopefully, I’ll be able to squeeze it in my budget 🙂
🙂 I hope so. It’s going to be $5.
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THANK YOU for posting a cheeseburger soup recipe that doesn’t contain “pasteurized processed cheese food”! I have been wanting some cheeseburger soup since I saw a pin on pinterest earlier this week, and all the recipes I saw didn’t use real food!
It’s my goal in crock pot recipes to avoid processed foods and cream of soups. 🙂
that is one thing that is on my to-do list, sounds great I have never had it, thanks Barbara
You’re welcome!
YUM! We will be trying this tomorrow! Did I read that you are working on a cook book for the crock pot? *PLEASE TELL ME YES*
Yes, I am. 🙂 Due to come out in November.
Yum!!! Can’t wait to try it!! I’m wondering how dry mustard & pickles would taste in it….lol
You know, I thought about putting pickles in it…but I was afraid it would ruin the flavor. 🙂 I do put pickles on the pizza and in the meatloaf though. 😉
That’s pretty much my hamburger soup recipe. I dont use beef broth though. All my friends love hamburger soup. yes I put cheese in it but I think the hamburger outweighs the cheese therefore voiding the cheese in the title lol. This recipe is a staple in our house and probably will be in yours too.
Yep…every time I make it, it’s a big hit – even with my picky Daddy. 🙂
This sounds great! Have you ever tried using tofu crumbles in a crock pot? I wonder if it would be similar?
We don’t eat tofu, so I’m not sure. You could give it a shot! 🙂