Cabbage Roll Soup
Cabbage Roll Soup
This Cabbage Roll Soup is a hearty, healthy and delicious dinner…and it tastes just like cabbage rolls! Ready in 1 hour.
Well here in Alberta it turned from summer into fall overnight. One minute the air smelled like sunshine and lazy days, and the next it was all fall leaves and routine, but honestly I’m ready for it. We had an amazing and busy summer, but now I am craving routine, sweaters, brown nail polish, shoes with socks, all things pumpkin, and fall comfort food.
I’m also finding myself in a nesting mode of sorts. I think it’s due to back to school jitters and the fact that I now have two kids in junior high, and I’ve been worried about the transition to a new school and all the stuff that comes with teenagers. Le sigh. So I cook and bake to calm my worries. Last week I made zucchini loaves, chocolate zucchini cake, monster cookies, chocolate chip cookies, bran muffins, hamburger soup and this cabbage roll soup. See what I mean? Nesting. But at least the freezer is stocked.
Tastes Just Like Cabbage Rolls!
This soup is delicious! It tastes just like a cabbage roll, but without all the fuss of having to roll them in cabbage. So good.
Rich and Delicious
I think one of my most favourite things about this soup is the fact that is has a little bacon in it, which adds such a nice smoky flavour to the tomato base. That and the fact that it’s loaded with delicious ingredients: ground beef, tomatoes, cabbage, carrots, onions, garlic, bacon…mmmmm, all the makings of cabbage rolls.
Serving Suggestions:
I served our cabbage roll soup with a homemade braided pumpkin bread. A perfect fall dinner, and comfort food for stressful days. Homemade dinner rolls and a green salad are delicious with this soup too! A perfect hearty meal.
Cabbage Roll Soup Recipe Tips:
- Consommé: If you don’t have consommé, you can use beef broth instead.
- Beef: Use lean ground beef. You can also make this with ground turkey, ground pork or a mix.
- Rice: Use uncooked rice.
- Leftovers: Store any leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days. Also please note that this soup will thicken after it has sat (in the fridge), so you may want to add more water or a water/consomme mix before reheating.
- Freezing: This soup doesn’t freeze well. I have frozen it, but it gets very thick, and the rice becomes a little mushy. Just a forewarning…doesn’t mean you can’t freeze it.
Slow Cooker Option:
If you like you can make this soup in a slow cooker. Just brown the ground beef with the onions, garlic and carrots. When the beef is cooked, drain any excess grease. Add the cooked beef and all the remaining ingredients to a slow cooker and cook for 6 – 7 hours on LOW, or 3 – 4 hours on HIGH (until the rice is soft).
Cabbage Roll Soup
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 – 2 lbs ground beef
- 1 large onion chopped
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 2 carrots finely chopped
- 6 – 7 cups chopped green cabbage
- 6 slices of cooked bacon chopped finely
- 2 10 ounce cans beef consommé
- 1 28 ounce can diced tomatoes
- 1 5 ounce can of tomato paste
- 2 1/2 cups plain tomato sauce basically a (23 ounce can)
- 2 cups water
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 leaves bay
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 3/4 cup uncooked long grain white rice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp ground black pepper
Instructions
- In a large soup pot (stock pot), brown the ground beef with the onions, garlic and carrots.
- When the beef is cooked, drain any excess grease.
- Return the pot with the beef, to low-medium heat, and add the chopped cooked bacon. Stir and cook for about 1 minute.
- Add the chopped cabbage and cook for about 2 minutes more.
- Add the remaining ingredients: consommé, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce, water, Worcestershire sauce, bay leaves, sugar, rice and salt and pepper.
- Simmer at a low boil for 35 – 40 minutes (or until the rice is tender).
- Enjoy!
Notes
Inspired by Spending With Pennies
I hope you try this soup and love it too! Have a delicious day!
I SWEAR I can smell it!! Yummy! Will be making this at Thanksgiving xo
Looks very good…I often make lazy man cabbage rolls (the shredded cabbage instead of rolling lol) because of the amount of shredded cabbage my work place tosses out (most mondays) ..I’ll have to give this one a try soon!!
Oh I LOVE lazy cabbage rolls! If you like those you’ll definitely like this soup!
I can’t wait to make this tonight! Do you add cooked or uncooked rice?
Hi! You add uncooked rice…it will cook while the soup simmers. I hope you love it!!
Can you sub low sodium beef broth for the consume???
You sure can!
Wow! You are Johnny on the spot with responses. Appreciated, thanks!!
No problem at all! I hope you like the recipe!
If you leave out the rice would you use a little less liquid?
I would probably leave out about 1 cup of water…but you may not need to. This soup thickens quickly.
Just made it today! This soup is soooo good 🤤 especially on a cold winter day!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
Made this today, and we just enjoyed this for dinner! Everyone loved it. Great hearty soup for a cold January day in Cleveland!
Thank you.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!!
Do you think I could turn my left over cabbage rolls into this soup? Have left over cabbage rolls and hate to throw them away. This soup looks and sounds amazing and wondered if I could repurpose my cabbage rolls into the soup??? Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
Jennifer
Can you use medium grain rice?
Hi Seterria! Yes, you definitely can!
I make this soup but polish style. I make little meatballs and I add Brown sugar, white sugar, and lemon juice to make it sweet and sour. It delicious.
Oh that sounds delicious! I love the idea of adding meatballs!