This Keto Bacon Cheeseburger Soup has all the flavors of a cheeseburger, but in soup form. It’s even as though you can taste each individual condiment. So warm and comforting.
A delicious cheeseburger reimagined as a keto soup
Not only is this keto soup rich and filling, but it manages to capture all the flavors of a juicy, delicious cheeseburger. It’s as if you can even taste each individual condiments too. This Keto Bacon Cheeseburger Soup is one of my all-time favorite comfort food recipes. I am a year round soup eater. Hot or cold weather, soup always sound delicious to me. Who’s with me?
Searching for low carb soup recipes?
Low carb soup recipes are my jam! In fact, I love them so much that several years ago, I wrote an entire Slow Cooker Soups and Stews Ebook. This Keto Bacon Cheeseburger Soup is one of the recipes from that book. I’ve made it so many times on my Instagram, that I felt it was only fair that after all these years, I finally share it here as well.
A lot of low carb and keto soup recipes utilize xanthan gum to thicken the broth, but I prefer not to. This gluten free soup recipe is thickened with the use of cheese and heavy cream. I have always been a fan of cream based low carb soups. Actually, Who am i kidding? I am just a big fan of soup in general.
One of the most common questions I get on a lot of my slow cooker soup recipes is how to covert them to stovetop, so for this Keto Bacon Cheeseburger Soup recipe, I gave instructions for both. However, I feel like I need to tell you that you should probably make a double batch! It is that good. Every time we make this, there are never any leftovers, no matter how much I make. In fact, I have to make triple batch in order to have some for our weekly meal planning and low carb food prep. It is one of those soup recipes that just gets better and better as the days go by. It also reheats really well!
This low carb, high fat soup is only about 300 calories and only 3 net grams of carbs. With macros like that, you can afford to have two servings.
Do you have a favorite low carb soup recipe to enjoy on those cold, blustery fall and winter days?
In addition to this Keto Bacon Cheeseburger Soup, check out some of my other favorite low carb soup recipes:
- Butternut Squash and Sausage Soup
- Low Carb Creamy Reuben Soup
- Paleo Cabbage Roll Soup
- Easy Peasy Keto Wonton-Less Soup
- Keto Buffalo Chicken Soup
- Chicken Fajita Soup
- Keto Smoked Sausage Cheddar Soup
Did you know that I have an entire ebook dedicated to low carb soups and stews? I love warm and comforting soup recipes, especially in the cooler fall and winter months.
Keto Bacon Cheeseburger Soup
- Prep Time: 20 Minutes
- Cook Time: 60 Minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Yield: 12 servings 1x
Ingredients
- 4 cups beef stock
- 1 medium tomato, diced (or a 14.5 ounce can diced tomatoes)
- 1/3 cup chopped dill pickles
- 2 tablespoons Dijon Mustard
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 1 teaspoon sea salt, more to taste
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 ½ pounds ground beef
- 1 small onion, diced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 1/2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 8 slices bacon, cooked crisp and crumbled
Instructions
Slow Cooker Instructions:
- Heat the slow cooker on low setting.
- To the slow cooker, add the beef stock, tomato, pickles, Dijon, Worcestershire sauce, parsley, sea salt, and black pepper.
- In a large skillet, over medium-high heat, cook the ground beef, onions, and garlic until the ground beef is browned and cooked all the way through. Drain the excess grease and add to the slow cooker. Cover and cook for 6 hours.
- Mix in cheddar cheese and heavy cream and and cook 1 additional hour.
- Add bacon just before serving.
Stovetop Instructions:
- Heat a large dutch oven or stock pot over medium heat. Add the ground beef, onions, and garlic, and cook until the ground beef is browned and cooked through.
- Add the beef stock, tomato, pickles, Dijon, Worcestershire sauce, parsley, sea salt, and black pepper. Bring to a boil, and then reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Mix in the cheddar cheese and heavy cream, reduce the heat to low, cover and stirring occasionally, simmer for 30 minutes.
- Add bacon just before serving.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 306
- Fat: 11g
- Carbohydrates: 3 net g
- Protein: 13g
Jessica says
What I soup, I love ketonic soup and diets, I’ve followed a diet of keto and I loved it. Thanks for sharing
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Bill Siracuse says
Looking forward to giving this recipe a try. Me and my wife have bought a couple of your books so far and they have been a tremendous help in our weight loss journey. Question, can we substitute out the heavy cream and use Greek yogurt instead? I’ve done this in my own homemade Mac n cheese and was curious if you thought it would work here?
Peace Love and Low Carb says
I cannot say as I have never tried it. If you do try it, I would love to hear the result. Thanks
Jordan says
The Greek yogurt may make the soup NOT keto.. check the sugar in your yogurt
Laura says
This was so so good! Will definitely make this again. It is cravable!
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Jen says
This was very good and filling! I modified slightly, as I don’t like pickles or tomatoes, but the flavor combination was great. Thanks for your work to put together recipes for those of us not creative enough in the kitchen to come up with our own! I’ve also got your cookbook and love all the recipes I’ve tried from it too.
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Carol says
Kendra, I made the soup tonight and it was delicious!
Thanks, Carol
Samantha says
Made this tonight and it was delicious with no modifications. Thank you for such a great dinner idea.
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natalie says
Can I ask what the purpose is of cooking for 6 hours in slow cooker? Is it just let all the flavors blend or? I’ve got it in the slow cooker now but I may take it off early, hoping that will be ok! Thanks for the recipe 🙂
laurie says
I’m wondering how yours turned out with taking it out early? I want to do the same thing! 🙂
Pam R. says
You can cook it on high for half the amount of time and that is fine!
Jamie Aduddell says
Made this tonight, and my husband said, “this is my favorite thing you’ve ever made.” Yay! So, so yummy! Thank you for sharing- I love following you❤️
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Linda says
This is satisfying and delicious. Perfect for a cold winter day. It only took 30 min in the Instant Pot.
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Nicole says
This soup is really easy to make. I browned the meat (beef and pork) the day before and then used organic crushed seasoned tomatoes instead of a chopped onion (my husband is allergic). I let the whole thing cook on low for two hours, added the cream and shredded cheese and let it cook for another 45 minutes and called it done. We topped it with bacon and some leftover shredded cheese. My husband, who does not even like soup, ate two huge bowls.
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Megan says
Delicious! Left pickles out for my hubby.
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Deb says
Made the Bacon Cheeseburger Soup, one word describes this soup; awesomeness!
Simple ingredients and full of flavor. This is a must- try healthy, Keto comfort food. I used a few substitutions. 1/2 & 1/2 for. The heavy cream and 4 slices of bacon instead of 8. This is a keeper. Thanks
PS. I purchased 30 minute Ketogenic and The Cookbook.
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Tara says
This was amazing!! My husband was Leary about the pickles but he literally ate 3 bowls of it before I could eat one lol a definite success!!
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Stephanie Mrse says
Everyone in my family loved this!
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Angie says
Loved this recipe! Being from New Mexico, we plan to add some green chile next time for a true Green Chile Bacon Cheeseburger taste! I do have one question, though. Has anyone frozen this for later? If so, how does it come out? Thanks!
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Victoria Skelly says
made as stated and froze half. It thawed wonderfully!! My 13 yr old LOVED it!!!! Thank you!
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Jean says
Made it and it came out great! I did end up adding some xanthum gum as I like a thicker soup. Next time I think I’ll add some jalapeños or chili’s for heat.
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Sharon Howe says
Excellent Soup – Flavours amazing – made as per recipe – thank goodness I doubled it – everyone loved it!!
Thanks,
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Cindy says
This is a great soup! I left out the pickles and I used 1 10oz can of Rotelle Original (diced tomatoes with green chili’s) in place of the tomato. It was delicious!
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Jana says
Oh my GOSH!!!!!!!! This is so good I can’t even believe it. Total hit. thank you
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Faythe Irwin says
Loved this! I did add diced green chilies and 1/2 – 1 cup of pickle juice.
Becky says
Best soup ever😍
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Danielle D McCann says
I never feel the need to comment on blog posts or recipes, but with just one month of keto under my belt, we’ve made this soup 6 times!! We’ve had fun making some alterations along the way — adding more meat, subbing deer meat and beef stew chunks, and our favorite: adding something green for lettuce! I prefer quartered Brussels sprouts, while my husband likes kale. We also like to eat this over pork rinds, which ends up tasting like a soggy burger bun!
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Kyndra Holley says
So happy you enjoy it. It’s definitely a favorite in our house too!!
Stacey Brinkman says
This soup was great for my low carb diet! AND A BONUS—-my very picky husband LOVED it too! Will definitely keep this recipe! Thank you so much!
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Denice says
Made soup according to stove top recipe. I like pickles on my burgers but 1/3 c chopped pickles made the soup less like a cheeseburger and over-poweringly like pickle soup! Will try it again but only use a couple pickle chips.
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Fiona Jones says
Since starting keto, I’ve been craving a juicy burger & this really hit the spot. Wasn’t sure how I’d feel about pickles in every bite, so I used them as a garnish along with the bacon, a sprinkling of cheese & a little chopped raw onion. I subbed evaporated milk for heavy cream since that’s what I had & used tomatoes with green chilies for a little kick. Served mine over some mixed greens for a full burger experience. Absolutely delicious! This is definitely going into the rotation. My husband loved it too. Usually, when we have leftovers, we’ll skip a day or two before finishing them up but we happily ate this two nights in a row. Thanks so much!
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Diane says
This is very good. I am not good with draining ground beef so I boil water and crumble the ground beef in the boiling water to cook it , then I drain it and wash out the Dutch oven. Next I sautéed the onions, then the garlic added for a short bit and the. I added in the ground beef, stock and went with the. Recipe. I used dill pickle relish and I used regular mustard because I don’t care for Dijon.
I really enjoy your recipes.
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Chloe’ says
Ho-Ly CRAP!! This was soooooo dang good!! I left out the xanthan gum because my local grocery store didn’t sell it, but I did everything else to a T and it was amazing. It literally taste like a warm comfortable cheeseburger and it smells the way you wish McDonald’s smelled. I enjoy this so much I had to bowl falls, and even though it took a little over an hour to make, it was completely worth the wait. Thank you so much for the recipe, this is definitely going to be a keto staple of mine. Today is literally two weeks of me on keto and having something that’s comforting helps!!!
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Jennifer says
I wish that it didn’t say that it serves 12 …that would give each serving about only 1/2 cup….which is crazy small. Sure it makes the macros look good but it was pretty disappointing when i started putting all the ingridients together. …still looking forward to trying it.
Tara says
Made this yesterday and it is now one of our favorites…. honestly it tastes just like a big mac!!! Added two diced jalopenoes and two tsp crushed red pepper flakes and it was just enough kick. This will definitely go on rotation as it stores great and taste just as good reheated! Thanks for this one. Trying your strew next week.
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