5 Bean Soup Recipes with Vegetables, Beef or Chicken

These bean soup recipes bring together a three-bean vegetable pot, chicken tortilla soup and three beef-based options. All use fully cooked canned beans, with black, kidney, pinto or cannellini beans contributing to the bowls. Choose a vegetable broth, chicken, slow cooker beef, creamy finish or spicier tomato direction.

Drain and rinse beans as specified, then add them at the recipe’s intended stage. The vegetable soup simmers while carrots soften, while the chicken soup adds beans after the chicken cooks in broth. The beef versions brown their meat before simmering or slow cooking. These methods are not instructions for cooking dry beans in the same schedule.

Bean Soup Recipes with Vegetables and Chicken

These first two offer different main ingredients and broth styles: three canned beans with vegetables, or chicken thighs with black beans and lime.

Bean Soup Recipes featuring Hearty Bean Vegetable Soup

1. Hearty Bean Vegetable Soup

Black, kidney and cannellini beans simmer with carrots, celery and tomatoes. A few beans may be mashed for body, making this the vegetable-and-bean option without chicken or beef.

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Chicken Tortilla Soup with Black Beans, Corn and Lime

2. Chicken Tortilla Soup with Black Beans, Corn and Lime

Diced chicken thighs simmer in a spiced fire-roasted tomato broth before black beans and corn enter. Lime finishes the soup, with tortilla chips divided across bowls at serving.

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Slow Cooker Beef and Bean Soup

Browned beef and cooked canned beans form this slow cooker option. Optional toppings stay outside the pot.

Slow Cooker Kidney Bean Taco Soup with Beef and Corn

3. Slow Cooker Kidney Bean Taco Soup with Beef and Corn

Browned beef and onion transfer to the slow cooker with black beans, kidney beans, corn and tomato-chiles. Cheddar, sour cream and chips are optional additions offered separately.

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Creamy and Spicy Beef Bean Soups

Both use black and pinto beans, but one melts in cream cheese while the other uses a spicy tomato sauce and fresh serving toppings.

Creamy Taco Soup with Beef, Beans and Cream Cheese

4. Creamy Taco Soup with Beef, Beans and Cream Cheese

Black and pinto beans share a beef-and-tomato soup with jalapeño and green chiles. Cream cheese melts in gradually over lower heat, giving this the creamy option among the beef soups.

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Easy Taco Soup with Beef, Beans and Spicy Tomato Sauce

5. Easy Taco Soup with Beef, Beans and Spicy Tomato Sauce

A measured canned spicy tomato sauce distinguishes this beef, black bean and pinto soup. Sour cream, avocado, tomato and tortilla chips complete the bowls just before eating.

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Before You Choose Your Recipe

For less last-minute assembly, choose the vegetable soup or creamy beef soup. Tortilla-style bowls often include chips, sour cream or avocado added just before eating. Keep those toppings separate from any soup saved for later, and choose the canned tomato product carefully: seasoned tomato-chiles and plain spicy tomato sauce are different ingredients.

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