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”
Your soup is so very DELICIOUS! Will be so good on a Snowy Day. Thank you so much!
Merry
Modified quite a bit; shows that this is a great and forgiving recipe. I had premade meatballs that needed a “cause”; also used whole large cabbage so I added a can of tomatoes, several tablespoons tomato paste , and some leftover pasta sauce, also a splash of lemon juice. Still perfection and delicious.
I want to try the Cabbage soup it sounds delicious
Can you use shredded cabbage?
Hi Renee. Yes, you can use shredded cabbage with this recipe as well.
Loved it! So much easier than making cabbage rolls. Very satisfying, and made a large batch.
Do you need to drain the grease after cooking the hamburger?
Hi Tiffany. Depending on the fat content of the burger it may be best to, however it might not always be necessary.
We loved the soup did not add the rice but put a whole head of cabbage & a can of tomatoes instead of beef we added ground pork hot Italian & a whole green pepper
So you made a different recipe????♀️
Excellent recipe! No modifications needed!
This recipe is so good and so easy to make!
Made this soup on a cold fall night and it’s definitely turned into one of our staple meals.
Thank you for sharing your Cabbage Roll Soup, I made this today and it has a good taste and the ingredients are perfect.
This was so satisfying and much easier to make than cabbage rolls! It came together quickly and left my tummy feeling warm and fuzzy. Ok, maybe not fuzzy, but full for sure! I had 3 helpings the night I made it and now I’m eating the leftovers. It’s very good leftover…it thickened up so now it’s more like actually eating chopped up cabbage rolls. Thank you for sharing this recipe – so glad I found you!
Thanks Lisa!
The reviews don’t lie! Made this last night for the first time and was easily my favorite soup EVER! Tastes just like my great grandma’s stuffed cabbage roll recipe will become a staple recipe in our home thank you!!
Amazing! I use fresh stewed tomatoes and every year I freeze a pepper variety (bell, jalapeño, etc) and add that to the soup! Gives it a little kick!
One of my most favorite soups!!! Perfect on a cold damp day, this soup just fills you with warmth. I have added a teaspoon of red pepper flakes to the recipe for a little heat. Thanks for sharing
Making this tonight, so yummy for some extra texture I added some radishes. I also needed to use a jar of pizza sauce up so I used that instead. For some extra protein, I made this with beef bone broth. Highly recommend. Love that this is high volume but low calorie and made with all good ingredients!
We love it. I do add raisins for a little extra sweetness because my mom adds it when she would make her stuffed cabbage. I did add more stock to it.
Delicious! I used 99% ground turkey and two cans stewed tomatoes in place of some of the tomato sauce.
A big hit!! It will become a weekly staple, delicious and nutritious!
Tried this for the first time for dinner tonight & it was delicious! Love that it’s such a simple one pot recipe & quick for those nights that you just have the energy to put into a big meal This is definitely going to be a favorite during the colder months
Delicious. Added fresh tomatoes from garden. Turned out perfect