Steak or Hamburger Soup

Steak or Hamburger Soup

This soup is about as easy as it comes.   Most of the prep consists of just throwing the ingredients into the pot.  You can choice whether you want to use either steak or ground beef for this recipe, but personally I prefer the taste of the ground beef in it.

Here is what you will need:
Either 2 4oz beef steaks - cubed or 1.5 lbs ground beef
1/4 t garlic salt
1/8 t pepper
1 T cooking oil
1 onion chopped
2 celery stalks chopped
4 c water
10 oz. pkg frozen mixed veges
1 T beef bouillon
1 T Worcestershire sauce
1 t dried basil
1 7oz. can diced tomatoes
1/2 c cold water
1/3 c flour

*Sprinkle meat with garlic salt and pepper, and cook in oil until browned
*Cook onion and celery until tender.  Stir in meat, water, veges, beef bouillon, Worcestershire sauce, and basil.
*Bring to a boil and reduce heat.  Cover and simmer for 5 minutes
*Stir in tomatoes
*Mix together water (1/3 c cold) and flour.  Stir in until thick and bubbly.  Cook and stir 1 minutes
*serve immediately