Pressure Canning Vegetable Beef Soup (Step-by-Step Recipe) (2024)

FAQs

Can I can soup with meat in it? ›

Answer: Vegetable, dried bean or pea, meat, poultry or seafood soups can be canned.

Process the beef stock in a pressure canner at 10 pounds pressure 20 minutes for pints and 25 minutes for quarts, adjusting for altitude. Remove jars and cool. Check lids for seal after 24 hours. Lid should not flex up and down when center is pressed.

As long as the can is in good shape, the contents should be safe to eat, although the taste, texture and nutritional value of the food can diminish over time. Home canned foods should be used within 1 year.

For vegetable soup, fill the jars half full of solids, add broth allowing 1-inch headspace and process in a pressure canner. There needs to be space for the hot liquid to circulate between the food particles. Pieces of cooked beef or chicken can be added to the vegetables to make a vegetable meat soup.

Meat can be packed either raw or cooked. Pack meat loosely into clean canning jars. Keep precooked meat hot while packing and cover with boiling liquid. Salt adds flavor, but it is not necessary for preservation.

The chicken does not need to be cooked completely through when preparing soup in this way, because it will cook more once it's in the boiling broth, but The Whole Portion notes that if you are adding raw or underdone chicken to broth you need to ensure the broth still needs time to be fully ready so it won't taste over ...

The best meat for canning includes cuts from the area of the animal that does most of the moving, such as the leg, shoulder, chest, and rump. These are tougher cuts and naturally leaner. They're often on sale or sold at a lower price and are available in large quantities because of the cut.

Unfortunately, once you overcook a piece of meat in the pressure cooker, there's no going back. You'll be left with a pile of dry, crunchy, tasteless fibers and no amount of additional pressure cooking is going to put that moisture back into the meat. Earlier, I explained how ingredient size affects the cooking time.

Vegetable soups in a broth base may be safely canned using the process time for the ingredients that takes the longest process time for the individual ingredients in the soup. Most soups will take 60 to 90 minutes to process in a pressure canner depending upon size (pints or quarts) and ingredients.

Most shelf-stable foods are safe indefinitely. In fact, canned goods will last for years, as long as the can itself is in good condition (no rust, dents, or swelling). Packaged foods (cereal, pasta, cookies) will be safe past the 'best by' date, although they may eventually become stale or develop an off flavor.

Can I leave vegetable beef soup out overnight? ›

Food should not be at room temperature for more than two hours. Shallow containers or small amounts of hot food can be placed directly in the refrigerator or rapidly chilled in an ice or cold water bath before refrigerating. Cover foods to retain moisture and prevent them from picking up odors from other foods.

Canning homemade soup is an excellent way to put seasonal produce to use and stock up your pantry with vegetable, chicken, or tomato soup for colder months.

Ladle hot soup into hot jars, leaving 1" headspace. Remove air bubbles with a knife. Adjust two piece caps. Process pints 1 hour, quarts 1 hour and 15 minutes, at 10 pounds pressure in a pressure canner.

Meat and beans must be cooked thoroughly before canning

That's because the liquid content in the jar isn't enough to cook the meat or beans contained within it. For soup recipes with meat, cover the meat with water and heat it until it's tender and cooked through.

Meat in canned soups is meat that has been thoroughly sterilized by the cooking process and then sealed in a container that does not allow outside contaminants to enter.

Yes, you can can cooked meat using the hot pack method. This involves placing cooked meat in the jars and covering it with a hot liquid, such as broth or water, before processing in a pressure canner.

Fill the pressure canner with one to two inches of water and get that warming up on the stove. Next, take the hot soup and ladle it into hot jars. Keeping mason jars in the oven on the lowest temperature until ready to use is an easy way to keep your jars warm until ready to use. Fill the soup up to 1-inch headspace.

Yes, 100% you must use a pressure canner to can meat. A pressure canner is mandatory because meat is a low-acid food. A pressure canner is the only way to get the meat up to a high enough temperature, for a long enough time to make it safe for food storage. Don't be intimidated by your pressure canner.