Cheeseburger Soup Makes a Splash with Guy Fieri

by Slashfood Editor, Posted Oct 27th 2009 @ 3:15PM

Cheeseburger soup at Kalie's Family Restaurant. Photo: playswithfood/flickr

It's a soup! It's a cheeseburger! It's cheeseburger soup?

Kalie's Family Restaurant in Cleveland serves up cheeseburger soup, but the restaurant is not alone.

Food Network's Guy Fieri hunts down the meaty concoction at Grover's Bar and Grill in East Amherst, N.Y. on "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives." The episode, called "Dives Worth a Drive," is airing Nov. 6, 7 and 8 on the Food Network.

Click here for a cheeseburger-soup recipe.

Would you eat cheeseburger soup?
Bring it on!	546 (92.4%)
If the price were right...	14 (2.4%)
Not in a million years.	31 (5.2%)

Filed Under: Chefs
Tags: beef, cheeseburger, cheeseburger soup, CheeseburgerSoup, comfort food, guy fieri, GuyFieri, salads, soup

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2-27-2010 @9:08AM Glen Sype said... I saw that episode with cheeseburger soup. It actually looked great!!! I have NEVER heard of such a thing before, but would love to try it. The only problem is that I cannot find a recipe online that looks like what I saw on TV. All of the recipes that I found call for adding potatoes and carrots, and nothing about using tomatoes and lettuce!
BTY. My wife and I love watching that show!!!
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2-28-2010 @7:37AM Kurmie said... I agree 100%! Who would ever dream of putting carrots or corn on a cheeseburger, but those are in the online recipes. I may have to make the 5 hour drive to Cleveland to experience it myself.

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2-27-2010 @10:55PM james h millhouse said... I too saw that episode with cheeseburger soup. It actually looked great!!! I have NEVER heard of such a thing before, but would love to try it. The only problem is that I cannot find a recipe online that looks like what I saw on TV. All of the recipes that I found call for adding potatoes and carrots, and nothing about using tomatoes and lettuce!

Glen if you locate the recipe we saw would you please forward it to me. It looked great.

Thanks!

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3-14-2010 @10:13AM M. E. said... I found the following link:
http://keyingredient.com/recipes/150146/triple-d-cheeseburger-soup/
to a recipe that sounds very similar to the recipe on the show. No potatoes, carrots, or corn and it has the tomatoes and lettuce. I haven't tried it yet, but I will. It calls to Velveeta cheese and 1/2 & 1/2 instead of a cheese sauce, but I think that would work.

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1-09-2011 @10:44PM Jodyo...I found it :) said... Triple D Cheeseburger Soup

* 1 pound super lean ground beef
* 16 oz chicken stock
* 1 pints half and half
* ½ block of Velveeta, cubed
* 1 large onion, diced
* 3 T. butter
* 2 med tomatoes, chopped
* 2 cups Iceberg lettuce, chopped
* Salt & Pepper to taste
* 1/4 cup flour mixed with 3/4 cup water (for thickener)

In a Dutch oven, melt butter and sweat onion until translucent, remove. Add ground beef, season with salt & pepper and cook until browned and a bit crispy, drain. (Next time I will make actual patties and grill them to get more of a burger taste) remove from pan.

Add your chicken stock, & flour slurry, bring to boil scrapping bits off the bottom. Add half & half and Velveeta. Cook until all the cheese is melted, not boiling. Add in onion & hamburger.

Season to taste and lower heat. Cover and cook for about an 1 hour. Add the tomatoes and lettuce, stir and serve.

Here you g

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2-28-2010 @2:18PM Kurmie said... OK, guys, try this:

KURMIE'S AWESOME CHEESEBURGER SOUP
(I don't know if it tastes anything like the original, but it didn't make me puke.)

1 can Campbells Chedar Cheese soup
6 oz milk or 1/2 & 1/2 (a whole can will dilute the cheese flavor too much)
4 oz hamburger (cooked & drained)
4 oz diced tomatoes (about 1/2 can), drained
2 large bib lettuce leaves cut up coarsely
pepper to taste

Heat cheese soup and milk
stir in hamburger
add tomatoes & lettuce, pepper to taste and serve.

Add the lettuce just before serving, or serve it on the side. You don't want it mushy,

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3-07-2010 @11:35PM Carole said... I just watched that episode today and it did look GREAT! Thanks for the recipe!

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4-19-2010 @2:03PM Linda said... looking for the recipe for cheeseburger soup aired on Guy Fieri Show

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3-11-2010 @5:57PM James H. Millhouse said... The episode showed melted butter, sauteed onions, cream and beef stock.

Still looking for the recipe as shown.
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3-18-2010 @6:12PM Mindee said... I had this soup yesterday in Shipshewana,Indiana,. It was excellant!!!!! theirs had potato's and little bits of carrots, Don't know it till you try it ;)
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7-28-2011 @3:00PM Jane said... There is a restaurant in Butler PA called the Chop Shop that has a to die for cheeseburger soup. Thick and rich and when you leave you are already planning on when you can return for more.
No potoatoes in this soup.
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