Cabbage roll soup is hearty, warm and filling.
The flavors you know and love of cabbage rolls, with a lot less work. Perfect comfort soup on a chilly night. This soup also goes by the name of “unstuffed cabbage soup”.
Ingredients:
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- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 pound ground beef, very lean
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 1 onion, finely diced
- 1 teaspoon garlic, minced
- 4 cups green cabbage, roughly chopped
- 2 carrots peeled, halved and sliced
- 4 cups beef broth
- 3 8oz. cans tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup uncooked long grain rice
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
How to make Cabbage Roll Soup
- In a large pot, add the olive oil and warm over medium high heat. Add the ground beef and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Cook the ground beef, breaking it up with a spatula, until the beef is browned, this will take about 5 minutes.
- Add the diced onion and minced garlic and cook for another 2-3 minutes until the onion is translucent.
- Add the cabbage, carrots, beef broth, tomato sauce, uncooked rice, bay leaf and brown sugar to the pot. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Bring the soup to a simmer and cook for 25 minutes or until the rice is tender. Remove the bay leaf before serving.
- Serve warm with a sprinkle of chopped parsley.
Cabbage Facts:
- Did you know that one head of cabbage yields about 8 cups of chopped cabbage? So you can double this recipe if you’d like with just one head of cabbage.
- Just a half cup of cabbage has a third of the vitamin C you need in a day as well as fiber, folate, potassium and magnesium.
- Fun Fact: Cabbage is one of the oldest known vegetables, grown and harvested since 4,000 B.C.
Store/Freeze:
This soup will keep in the fridge for 3 to 5 days. Reheat in microwave safe container for one minute or in saucepan on cooktop. We do not recommend freezing this soup.
Cabbage Roll Soup
The flavors you know and love of cabbage rolls with a lot less work.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 pound ground beef very lean
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 onion finely diced
- 1 teaspoon garlic minced
- 4 cups green cabbage roughly chopped
- 2 carrots peeled, halved and sliced
- 4 cups beef broth
- 3 8 oz cans cans tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup uncooked long grain rice
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons parsley chopped
Instructions
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In a large pot, add the olive oil and warm over medium high heat. Add the ground beef and season with salt and pepper to taste.
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Cook the ground beef, breaking it up with a spatula, until the beef is browned, this will take about 5 minutes.
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Add the diced onion and minced garlic and cook for another 2-3 minutes until the onion is translucent.
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Add the cabbage, carrots, beef broth, tomato sauce, uncooked rice, bay leaf and brown sugar to the pot. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
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Bring the soup to a simmer and cook for 25 minutes or until the rice is tender. Remove the bay leaf before serving.
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Serve warm with a sprinkle of chopped parsley.
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Variations:
- Lighten it up with ground turkey
- Swap white rice with brown rice, just make sure to increase the cook time 20 minutes to cook the rice completely
- Add in extra vegetables such as zucchini or spinach
- Add in some beans for extra fiber
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