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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.

bowl of cabbage roll soup

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!

bowl of cabbage roll soup

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.

pot of cabbage roll soup

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

Cabbage Roll Soup recipe is a delicious dinner recipe that will warm your belly on a cold and crisp fall day. This is the ultimate comfort food!
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 30 minutes
Servings: 6
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Ingredients 

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.

Nutrition

Serving: 6gCalories: 213.01kcalCarbohydrates: 20.27gProtein: 20.23gFat: 5.24gSaturated Fat: 2.83gCholesterol: 46.87mgSodium: 346.58mgPotassium: 634.05mgFiber: 0.51gSugar: 6.63gVitamin C: 1.67mgCalcium: 22.13mgIron: 2.01mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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562 Comments

  1. Patricia A Pajewski says:

    5 stars
    Very good tasting soup.

  2. Dee says:

    5 stars
    Started making this in March when the Quarantine had started. Thank you so much for this delicious recipe which my family and I love. I make it with original veggie ground and everyone loves it just the same. It is such a gift when people share recipes with others so thank you again.

  3. Deborah Higdon says:

    4 stars
    So delicious and easy to make. My husband loved it. We are eating at home, everyday, since the Corona Virus outbreak, and it gave us something new to try! I froze a small amount for another time.

  4. Shaban says:

    That looks like the second most delicious thing on earth but I wonder what it smells like.

    1. Kathie says:

      It smells delicious.

  5. Jill Wolber says:

    5 stars
    Made this today. Fantastic, and will definitely make this again!

  6. Amy Tyus says:

    5 stars
    My family loved this!!  

  7. michelle franz says:

    5 stars
    can i cook this in crockpot.???

    1. mabel says:

      yes just cook the ground beef first, then put it into the crockpot, dump the rest into the crockpot, this was amazing. add parsley at the end so it stays fresh.

  8. Melody Haines says:

    5 stars
    This soup is excellent. Easy to follow instructions. Did exactly as recipe called for turned out great. Thank you

  9. Kathleen Heller says:

    Made this using hamburger and 1/2 pound chorizo . Skipped sugar bit added herb dr province which I love with beef vegetable soup. Delicious.

  10. Kristin says:

    5 stars
    I made this for the first time tonight, it was delish!! My 10 yr. old said it was one of the best things he’s ever eaten. The only thing I changed was added a few more carrots and some Italian season. I will definitely be making this again.