Easy Taco Soup with Ranch | Clean Eating Soup

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 our own 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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5 from 2 reviews

• Author: Whitney Carlson
• Total Time: 40 minutes
• Yield: 6 1x

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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.

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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

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Instructions

1. Brown meat & onions, drain if desired (you do not have to fully cook since it will still cook when the remaining ingredients are added)
2. Mix ranch & taco seasonings into the meat
3. Add the rest of the ingredients into the mixture (you may also need to add a little bit of water)
4. 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