Simple Hamburger Tomato Basil Soup!

Look, some of the simplest ingredients ever. Also, look, second best kitchen helper ever is in here. Hi, how you doing? You coming in here to help? There's like not much in here I can give you, if anything. Sorry about that. You're in here already for soup season, snuggled in your blanket. Here's third best kitchen helper ever. Welcome back to Snow Dogs Cooking, where if I can cook it, so can you. It's soup season. It may not be soup season where you're at, because technically fall is like two days from today. But it's soup season because it is a whopping like 61 degrees outside and it's raining. Soup season is all the time. Who's with me? Soup is the answer all the time. But we're gonna make some hamburger tomato basil soup, which is super easy. It's kind of almost a dump and go recipe. Almost. We do gotta do a little bit of prep work. But it's one of my favorites. We used to make it at the deli every once in a while and I always loved it for how simple it is. You can actually modify this and change it so many different ways and turn it into so many different things. But we're gonna make it the simple way. This is the key ingredient for what you put on it when it's all done. This is what makes this soup. So I'm gonna tell you guys everything that you are going to need to make this. Now clearly there's not a whole lot in here. You could add carrots. You can add celery. You can add barley. You can add noodles. You can modify this however you want. But this base is one of my favorites. And then you can also make grilled cheese and like dip the grilled cheese in it. So good! Anyway, let's get to the ingredients. So of course this is a hamburger tomato basil soup. You're gonna need some hamburgers, some tomatoes and some basil. You're gonna need one pound of hamburger. You're gonna need one small diced tomato. You're gonna need four cans of petite diced tomatoes. You can use the fire roasted if you want. I'm not a big fan of that flavor or you can do like two of these and two fire roasted if you wanted to or switch it up a little bit. You're gonna need some fresh basil. We're gonna need about an eighth of a cup of this and then a little bit more to put on top. You're gonna need some garlic or two to three cloves of garlic. You know, measure that garlic with your heart. Some salt and pepper. Also a little bit of garlic powder. And then we're gonna need three cans of water or beef broth. Now I am using a beef base. You could also use better than bouillon and then just figure out, you know, how much you need to make the right amount of broth for this. So basically this is about six cups of broth. So if you're using like a better than bouillon, you'll just do your measurement based on whatever you're using to make six cups of broth. If you're using minors, it's one and a half tablespoons is what I'm actually going to be using. Oh my goodness. That's it. That's literally all you need. Well and your pan and that type of stuff. Super simple. Like I said, there's a lot of things you can add to this to make it even more better. But I like it just like this. I'm doing all of this in my big soup pot because I can cook the hamburger right in here and I misinformed you guys. You also need a tablespoon of butter. If you're doing the onions in yours, drop it in there and let it melt. I have this on medium right now. So we're gonna let that melt and then throw our onions in there. Yeah, it looks good enough. We're gonna go ahead and add the onions. And we're going to cook the onions until they're translucent. So like five to seven minutes. Okay, so you can see the onions are slightly translucent. Just barely starting to brown. Now we're gonna throw our hamburger in here and I'm using a 93.7. So I'm not gonna have to drain mine because there's almost no fat in it. Use my hamburger cutter or kind of just mix it all together. And yes, we're gonna season it as well. So I cooked it a little bit. We're gonna go ahead and add some pepper. How much? You know, enough. You can always add more later. And I am gonna add a dash of salt as well. A little bit, not a whole lot. This is when I'm also gonna add my garlic. By the way, if you are using cloved garlic after your onions go for a few minutes, then do your garlic. Then throw your meat in. And a little bit of garlic powder as well. Again, measure with your heart. I'm definitely gonna add more than that. And you can always add more after you mix some of it together. I'm gonna go ahead and turn this down to medium low. You see, there's not a whole lot of anything that needs to be drained out of there. And we're gonna add all four cans of tomatoes. So there was one, two, three, four. And now we're gonna fill these with water and do three cans of water. One, two, and three. Oh yeah, it makes a lot. Now remember, if you were using beef broth, use three cans of beef broth instead of water. And if you're using the bouillon or the better than bouillon or whatever, we're gonna add that now. So for the minors, I add one and a half tablespoons of the beef base. And like I said, it may be different depending on what you're using. But we're gonna go ahead and start mixing that in. Now I'm going to wash and then finely chop my basil until I have about an eighth of a cup of it. This smells so good! In it goes. Fresh basil makes all the difference in this soup. If for some reason you want to make it and you don't have fresh basil or you don't want to deal with the fresh basil, it's about two teaspoons of dried basil. Or you can get basil paste, which comes in a little tube. A lot of the times you can find it by, you know, all the other fresh herbs. You can also use that and it would be about two teaspoons of that, which will be even better than the dried basil. But fresh basil makes this the best. Now I am gonna let this come to a simmer. I am gonna put a lid on it and I'm going to leave it on the stove here for probably a good 30 to 45 minutes to get all of those flavors mixed in together. So I guess now we wait. Well, did you come in here because you think you're supposed to get something? It's basil. Yeah, I didn't think you... You want to try it? Or just snoop it? Yeah, yeah, I know you're gonna spit it out, isn't it? Try a little bite? Little tiny bite. Little nibble. No? Okay, let me get you something you can have. What do you think? Would you like to try a nibble of basil? It's... I didn't think so. Maybe? Yeah, I didn't... I didn't think so. I'll get you something too. Hold on. Okay, you might not like this too much because you're not a big fan of potato chips. But would you like a oyster cracker? She don't like oyster crackers. Yeah, that's a face. How about you? Would you... You're like, yeah, give me a oyster cracker. You eat it like nothing. Second one? Just gone. Try again? Here. Let's show everybody your face you make when you eat these. Clearly does not like it, but will eat it. What's with the crooked ears? You didn't like that at all. No, she didn't like that at all. Oh my goodness. I wish you guys had smell-o-vision. It smells amazing! It smells amazing in here, doesn't it? That's not good. You know, it's funny though. As soon as I eat it, I'm like, where's the barley? So I mentioned to them that they could add barley or noodles or whatever. Or this version with barley is really good. Yeah, or noodles. Because then it's like spaghetti soup. That's what it makes me think of. Even though there's not oregano in it, like it feels like a spaghetti soup. We've done it before. Yeah, with noodles, yes. So I added a little bit of oyster crackers to mine. Yeah, because the oyster crackers make it the best. And it might not be blistering hot anymore. Yeah, well, that's good because we don't want you to burn your face off. It's still hot. Yeah, it's still hot. It's better than probably what we've been eating all week, which is whatever we could grab and throw in the air fryer. Yeah. So I decided to make you real food since you were home today. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, and look it. I'm telling you, it's soup season, people. Soup season. Yeah, it was a perfect day for soup today. Soup season. You guys want to see some more of the soup recipes that we've done? There'll be some on listed in the cards at the end of this video. And down in the video description below. I'm excited for soup season again. Let me know down in the comments what you want to see us make next. And as always, thanks so much for watching. Thanks for subscribing. Stay positive, dream big. We will see you again soon. Goodbye. Also, this freezes really, really, really well for anybody that was wondering.