Cabbage Roll Soup

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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 with beef and chopped veggies is a delicious dinner recipe that will warm your belly on a cold and crisp fall day.
5 from 583 votes

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!
Servings: 6
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 30 minutes

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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Nutrition

Serving: 6g | Calories: 213.01kcal | Carbohydrates: 20.27g | Protein: 20.23g | Fat: 5.24g | Saturated Fat: 2.83g | Cholesterol: 46.87mg | Sodium: 346.58mg | Potassium: 634.05mg | Fiber: 0.51g | Sugar: 6.63g | Vitamin C: 1.67mg | Calcium: 22.13mg | Iron: 2.01mg

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295 comments on “Cabbage Roll Soup”

  1. 5 stars
    So delicious! Question; in the serving size area it says serving is 6grams is that supposed to be oz?

  2. 5 stars
    I am making this again this week. I improvised with mild italian sausage (yes, added fat but the flavors were out of this world lol). I made sure I fried and drained the sausage well. Unbelievable flavor from the sausage meat. I did add a little bit of hot pepper flakes too.

  3. 5 stars
    Came home tonight from work tired and hungry for something good. Made this in no time!! So simple and my oh my…so delish! Family loves it.

  4. This looks delicious! In a slow cooker, would I cook this on high for 4 hours, or on low for longer? Thanks.

  5. 5 stars
    This soup is awesome! I used picante tomato sauce by accident the first time I made it and it turned out even better than the second time when i used half picante and half regular. The spiciness balanced out the sweet from the brown sugar nicely, especially the next day because it was sweeter left over. We love veggies so I also put 2 cups extra cabbage and doubled the carrots. Definitely a new staple recipe at our house.

  6. 5 stars
    My grandparents always used to make me cabbage rolls and i’ve been missing it and with the fall season i’ve been trying new soups. This definitely hits the heart!! quick & easy. Love it.

  7. At 92 degrees in the shade today, it is amazing the cabbage roll soup sounds so delicious. Already planning to substitute turkey for the beef & vegetable broth for the beef broth. Thanks for helping me look ahead to the autumn season.

  8. 5 stars
    Really delicious recipe. I love it yummy!!! It’s really awesome. Will surely try this. You can also try this one https://www.beckandbulow.com/authentic-british-fish-and-chips/

  9. 5 stars
    I absolutely love this soup.  I’m about to make it for the third time and the little comment button came up, so I though, yep, I need to comment and say how absolutely amazing, down home yummy, this soup really is.

  10. 5 stars
    I love this soup! When I made it this time I had no carrots, so I threw in half a bag of frozen peas and carrots. Also subbed in bloody Mary mix (Zing Zang brand) for the tomato sauce for a little added zing. Love the original recipe, but this was also very good! Thank you for a delicious healthy recipe!

  11. 5 stars
    This was AMAZING so good and my husband wants it on repeat monthly. Thanks for sharing. So easy and so good!

  12. 5 stars
    Definitely a filling soup I had a 1 cup bowl of it and I could not breath after eating it I was so full. Be great for a diet item. Thanks for sharing.

  13. 5 stars
    I loved the Cabbage Roll version of your soup. Although, I did not try it yet, I just know it is good, very good! You are very creative in the kitchen and a good teacher for your children, alleluia!