Recipe: Delicious grandma's vegetable beef soup

grandma's vegetable beef soup.

You can cook grandma's vegetable beef soup using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of grandma's vegetable beef soup

1. It's of carrots.
2. It's of stalks celery.
3. You need of cabbage.
4. It's of onion.
5. Prepare of turnips.
6. Prepare of stew meat.
7. It's of diced tomatoes.
8. It's of corn.
9. It's of green beans.
10. You need of pearl barley.
11. Prepare of beef soup base.
12. You need of bay leaves.
13. It's of italian seasoning.
14. You need of salt.
15. Prepare of black pepper, ground.

grandma's vegetable beef soup instructions

1. brown meat in the oil in a large stock pot..
2. add chopped raw vegetables and sautee until tender. I use the pot lid and add as I chop. Then I can stir the pot well more often..
3. add 3 quarts of water to the pots and bring to a boil. Add the soup base and tomatoes, seasonings. Simmer for an hour or more. 30 min. Before serving add barley and canned vegetables..
4. Stir occasionally to keep from burning. Dish up and let set 10 min. Before eating. Goes well with sandwiches or just bread..
5. pick out bay leaves before serving. this makes a wonderful comfort food for anyone ! I think of my grandma every time I make it ..