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This Easy Taco Soup with Ranch recipe is bursting with flavor without packaged ingredients. It is a healthy and easy to make meal that the whole family will love. This is gluten-free, dairy-free, and weight watchers friendly. Mix together ground meat, a variety of beans, corn, and a wonderful seasoning blend to create a delicious and protein-packed soup the whole family will enjoy!
Easy Taco Soup with Ranch | Clean Eating Soup
This Taco Soup recipe is very versatile and can easily be tweaked to fit your taste buds and schedule. For example, you can use whatever kind of beans you prefer, whatever meat you like best (we’ve used grass-fed bison, grass-fed beef, and ground chicken!), and you can use the cooking method that best fits your schedule.
This recipe is one that I remember my mom making since I was in high school. She would cook up a big batch and I’ve loved it ever since. I made a few changes to eliminate packaged seasoning but other than that it’s the same old’ taco soup I grew up with.
This soup is perfect plain but you can also sprinkle a little cheese on top and add cilantro.
Can I freeze taco soup?
Yes! I love making big batches of soup like this one to freeze for future meals. While this taco soup with ranch and beans is usually gone before I can blink, there are times I make large batches.
I prefer storing soup in individual freezer portion containers (like these round glass storage containers with lids) so it is easy to grab a single serving for lunches throughout the week. It’s easy to just place those in the refrigerator the night before to thaw or grab straight from the freezer on the day you want to have it. Just pop into the microwave or into a stockpot to reheat to the desired temperature.
Cooking and storage tips for taco soup
- We make ourown taco and ranch seasoning to eliminate packaged seasoning. Our seasoning mixes are quite popular – try them in this recipe!
- DIY Low-Carb Taco Seasoning
- DIY Ranch Seasoning
- If you are using grass-fed beef or grass-fed bison, you can brown the meat and onions and drain the excess fat before adding the additional ingredients
- This can be cooked in the crockpot or on the stovetop
- If you want yours to be more soup-like, add water (start with 1/4-1/2 cup). If you want yours thicker (more like chili), leave out the extra liquid
- Cooked meat usually lasts for 3-4 days in the refrigerator, if you will not consume it in that time period freeze the remaining for up to 4 months.
More Soup Recipes
This recipe is great to incorporate into food prep because it tastes great leftover! Here’s our ultimate step-by-step guide to meal prep for an idea of how to begin the meal prep process. Alongside this soup, I know you ill enjoy some of our other popular soup and chili recipes. Check them out below and print, bookmark, or pin to Pinterest for later!
- Chicken and Kale Crockpot Soup
- Crockpot Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe
- Turkey Black Bean Chili
- Instant Pot Bison Chili
This was originally published on May 13, 2013, and updated on October 15, 2019.
Clean Eating Taco Soup
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- Author: Whitney Carlson
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 6 1x
Description
This Taco Soup is bursting with flavor without packaged ingredients. It is a healthy, easy to make meal that the whole family will love and is gluten-free, dairy free, and weight watchers friendly.
Ingredients
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- 1 lb extra lean ground turkey or grass-fed beef
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 pkg ranch dressing mix (make your own ranch seasoning mix)
- 1 pkg taco seasoning mix (make your own low-carb taco seasoning)
- 1 can (16 oz) pinto beans, drained & rinsed
- 1 can (16 oz) kidney beans, drained & rinsed
- 1 can (16 oz) whole kernel corn (or organic frozen corn)
- 1 can (8 oz) organic diced tomatoes with chiles
- 1 can (8 oz) organic diced tomatoes
Instructions
- Brown meat & onions, drain if desired (you do not have to fully cook since it will still cook when the remaining ingredients are added)
- Mix ranch & taco seasonings into the meat
- Add the rest of the ingredients into the mixture (you may also need to add a little bit of water)
- Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 30 minutes to one hour (you can simmer in the crockpot or on the stovetop)
Notes
- If you are using grass-fed beef or grass-fed bison, you can brown the meat and onions and drain the excess fat before adding the additional ingredients
- If you want yours to be more soup-like, add water (start with 1/4-1/2 cup)
- Your macros will vary depending on the type of meat you use (the macros listed below were calculated using grass-fed bison)
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Mexican
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Kaitlyn says
Fast and delicious! What more could you ask for?
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I malinda says
I have made this many times. One of my favorites!
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Whitney Carlson says
COMMENTS FROM PREVIOUS WEBSITE (ADMIN):
Made this tonight, kept it thicker and husband made his as a burro and I put mine over a salad.
I have had this before made with the store bought packets and I thought it was terrible- tasted like eating straight up MSG. I’d be curious to try it with the homemade mixes, it might be edible that way.
This was sooo good! Thank you for adding it!
I love taco soup!! I will have to try this recipe. Thanks for sharing!
I never had taco soup until we moved to Texas. Yum!!
Thanks for the inspiration. I ‘ve got a vegan version of this in the crockpot now.
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Andrea says
Made this for our lunches for the week. Delicious and easy.
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Joy says
This sounds delicious, but with the canned ingredients it is probably high in sodium. Do you track your sodium intake? Would love to see a section of recipes with tips on cutting back on that!
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Whitney Carlson says
Hi Joy! Great question! We usually rinse our beans and typically use frozen corn (I need to update the recipe with this info) which helps a little bit. However, using dry beans is a better option. We do have a post on that, I’ll link to it below. I hope this helps. Thanks for taking the time to comment. https://www.heandsheeatclean.com/cooking-with-dry-beans/
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Diana says
Wow. This recipe is so good! Both my husband & love it! Your homemade seasonings (ranch & taco) are also super! Going to make this one on repeat for sure & will check more of your recipes. Thank you!
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Peggy says
How much is a serving? A cup? Thanks!
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Whitney Carlson says
Hi Peggy! I typically eat around one cup. 🙂 I hope this helps!
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