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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294 comments on “Cabbage Roll Soup”
This is really good with extra cabbage and smoked sausage as well for a change up.
This is so delicious! I made it with 93% turkey meat.
I did make some modification: I added orzo, celery, extra cabbage with 93% turkey meat. This was a hit with my family of 4 with 2 picky toddlers. For the toddlers, I also added a little fresh jasmine rice mix with this soup for them as well.
93%? That’s pretty precise
We love this soup! So easy to make and I sometimes choose different additions. I use black beans instead of rice and always use red cabbage instead of green. Today I used celery & added some V-8.
I can confirm that this is delicious with ground sausage, instead of beef.
I added celery and it was delicious!
Very tasty , filling but light. Great for emptying out the frig!
I’ve made this soup three times now. My husband and I love it. It’s simmering on the stove now for an easy dinner. I added three cups of water to keep it from getting too thick. (That’s because I put in a little more cabbage).
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Simply Delicious !
i made the cabbage role soup two time absolutely delicious
Delicious!! I knew this recipe was going to be winner and it was. I love a little sauerkraut with a dish like this so I did add a small can. Used 1 tsp. of sugar, ground pork, and because I’m low sodium I used low sodium tomatoes because I was adding sauerkraut so I didn’t want to blow my sodium intake. This recipe is amazing!! Thank YOU!!
I’m going to make that myself looks delicious
My husband was going back for his third helping I had to stop him . A really great soup.
This recipe is soo easy and only 1pan! This soup is delicious.
Love this recipe. If you like cabbage rolls you will love this soup. My husband could eat it everyday.
Saw it, went to the store and bought what I needed and made it for dinner tonight!!! It was delicious!!! I didn’t change a thing!!
Tomato sauce here in Australia is like ketchup. So I’m a little confused and I’m not sure what to buy
I’m thinking maybe crushed tinned tomatoes?
Hi Al. Maybe try one can of the paste and 2 cans of the crushed tinned tomatoes. I would drain at least one can of the crushed tomatoes.
I made the cabbage roll soup tonight for dinner. It was very delicious. Thank you.
Made this & loved it. Left the sugar out
I have this in the crock pot right now. I added two stacks of celery and a red bell pepper that I needed to use up. Also a can of roasted diced tomatoes.
I’m going to make the rice separately so I can freeze some soup without rice.