Cabbage Roll Soup recipe is a delicious dinner recipe that will warm your belly on a cold and crisp fall day. This unstuffed cabbage soup is one of the BEST soup recipes that we have ever made and very easy to make!
With lots of chopped vegetables, broth, tomato sauce, ground beef and rice, this hearty soup is a total winner. We like to serve this soup with our easy and delicious 30-minute dinner rolls.
Cabbage Roll Soup
This recipe is pretty simple, which is just one of the reasons I love it so much. You simply season and brown your ground beef, add veggies, broth and tomato sauce, then let sit for 25 minutes. My whole family loves this soup!
We really like making this recipe in our amazing dutch oven, but you can totally use your soup pot instead. Any pot with a lid will work!
How to make Cabbage Roll Soup?
Ingredients you will need:
- lean ground beef
- vegetable oil
- onion
- garlic
- green cabbage
- carrots
- low-sodium beef broth
- tomato sauce
- white rice
- bay leaf
- brown sugar
- parsley
To make this delicious unstuffed cabbage soup, you’ll need to start with lean ground beef. You can use regular ground beef, but we like that the lean keeps out a lot of the grease. You put a nice golden brown on the beef and then add in the rest of the ingredients to the pot.
I like to make a double batch of this soup so we have leftovers to eat. We always have sporting events and this is such an easy dinner to heat up on those busy nights knowing everyone will love it.
Can you Freeze Cabbage Roll Soup?
Yes!! If you have leftovers, this soup freezes perfectly. We place the cooked and cooled soup into individual portion freezer bags and place them on a tray or cookie sheet to freeze. Once the soup is frozen, stack the bags in the freezer. Take a bag out to thaw when ready for use. These make easy and delicious lunches.
What Is A Dutch Oven?
A Dutch Oven is very similar to your usual large pot, except with one big difference. That is, it’s usually made out of cast iron. Also, it is much heavier and thicker and the lid fits very tightly on top. Here is the classic red one we like to use.
To cut and dice your vegetables, I always suggest getting a Ninja Food Chopper Express Chop. (Just $18.99 on Amazon.) This things makes chopping one hundred times easier! It’s such a time saver.
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Cabbage Roll Soup
Ingredients
- 2 tsp. vegetable oil
- 1 lb. lean ground beef
- salt and pepper
- 1 medium yellow onion diced finely
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 4 cups chopped green cabbage
- 2 medium carrots quartered and sliced
- 4 cups low-sodium beef broth
- 3 8 oz. cans tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup white rice uncooked
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 tbsp. light brown sugar
- 2 tbsp. fresh chopped parsley
Instructions
- In a dutch oven or large soup pot, heat oil over medium-high heat and add ground beef.
- Season ground beef with salt and pepper as desired and cook until browned.
- Add diced onion and minced garlic and cook for another 2-3 minutes, until onions are tender.
- Add in chopped cabbage, carrots, tomato sauce, beef broth, white rice, bay leaf, and brown sugar and stir to combine.
- Bring soup to a simmer and let cook for about 25 minutes, until rice is tender.
- Take out the bay leaf and sprinkle with chopped parsley.
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536 comments on “Cabbage Roll Soup”
I had an Alaska sized head of cabbage to use (still have 5 more!) so I started looking for recipes. It’s raining here tonight, so I thought this would be a great meal to have. Very good, and easy to make.
Thank you Karen!
I love this recipe. It reminds me of my cabbage roll recipe, but turned into a soup. I did everything to a tea. The first time is a little too sweet for my taste, but that’s OK and then the second time I did everything on my way and I left out the brown sugar and when I tell you, it was top-tier 10,000 stars You wouldn’t have it any other way this recipe was great thank you
Thank you Lakrisa!
great, light soup. i used v8 since i didn’t have tomato sauce and added a bit of fresh zuchinni from the garden about 5 min before. very delish…and versatile recipe.
Thank you Eve!
Can this be made for freezer meals?
Hi Holly. Yes, this recipe will work well for freezer meals.
ALL YOUR RECIPES ARE JUST SUPER!!!!
Thank you Dianna!
in your cabbage roll soup do you use uncooked long grain rice and do you have to put in the brown sugar as we are diabetics here??
Hi Sharon. Yes, uncooked long grain works well but any white rice will work. You can omit the brown sugar with good results.
Great, filling soup!
Thanks!
Thanks Jen!
I started growing my own cabbage, and I had no idea what to do with it. Found this recipe and it will be a staple in our home from here on out. Thank you so much for your talent and expertise! PS we actually ended up subbing our beef for spicy sausage, bomb!
That’s great Kinna. Thank you!
OMG this tastes just like my Granny’s Cabbage Rolls. This is going to be a weekly soup at our Dinner Table. Thank you for sharing
Thanks Lorri!
I have been making a similar soup for a long time and love it. Because this soup has sugar in it could I use some smoked meat of the bone instead of ground beef and omit the sugar