Cabbage Roll Soup – Rachel Cooks®

Though cabbage soup is a really stereotypical food regimen recipe, it’s really surprisingly scrumptious. In a soup, cabbage turns into meltingly tender and all that simmering coaxes out its pure sweetness. Nevertheless, diet-style cabbage soup is just not very filling as a result of the soup recipes are often cabbage in a tomato-y broth and never a lot else. This cabbage roll soup makes for a satisfying (however nonetheless gentle!) meal because of the bottom beef and rice.

Cabbage roll soup is kind of actually all of the substances you’d put into cabbage rolls, plus broth to make it a soup. One of the best half? You don’t should assemble the rolls, making this soup recipe very straightforward.

Hearty Cabbage Roll Soup

Made with pantry substances. From the canned tomatoes to the seasonings and rice, nearly all of substances you’ll want for this cabbage roll soup recipe are pantry staples. Purchase a head of cabbage and a pound of floor meat, and also you’re able to make soup!

Simple to make. More often than not required for this soup is hands-off simmering time whilst you anticipate the rice to turn out to be tender. It’s an incredible recipe to make while you wish to multitask within the kitchen. It’s not overly time-sensitive so in case you’re aren’t fairly able to serve the soup, it might probably simmer awhile longer.

Freezer-friendly. Cabbage roll soup freezes like a dream so you possibly can have some for dinner, and freeze some for one more day, or make a double batch for these evenings while you desire a home-cooked dinner with out all the trouble. (I additionally love this butternut squash soup and beef chili for freezing.)

Ingredient Notes

• Lean floor beef: In the event you’re not a fan of beef, floor turkey is completely acceptable (and it’s what’s proven in our pictures). Add a beneficiant drizzle of olive oil to the pan earlier than browning it in case you swap in very lean floor turkey.
• Onion and garlic: These savories type the spine of taste for this (and so many different!) soups. I at all times have a bag of yellow onions within the pantry as a result of they don’t should be refrigerated, and their tremendous texture works effectively for soups and stews.
• Seasonings: Along with your normal salt and pepper, I add bay leaf, paprika, dried thyme and oregano.
• Cabbage: Purchase a head of inexperienced cabbage. It’s cheap, straightforward to organize, good for you, and it retains effectively within the fridge.
• Diced tomatoes: I like to recommend low-sodium or no-salt-added tomatoes. Hearth-roasted tomatoes will add one other layer of taste to your soup if you wish to go that route.
• Tomato sauce: I take advantage of no-salt-added tomato sauce. In the event you evaluate common canned tomato merchandise with no-salt-added tomatoes, it’s possible you’ll be stunned by how a lot sodium common canned tomatoes comprise. There may be not a discernible distinction in taste.
• Beef broth: And right here, I additionally used reduced-sodium broth. Through the use of canned items with low or no sodium, I can management the flavour of the completed soup by including my very own seasonings.
• Tomato paste and Worcestershire sauce: Whilst you received’t want giant quantities of those two substances, don’t skip them as a result of they add umami and depth to the soup.
• Parsley: Contemporary herbs at all times add such a pleasant contemporary taste when used as a garnish.

Easy methods to Make Cabbage Roll Soup

Brown the meat (or turkey – as pictures present) and onion. Set a big pot over medium warmth. As soon as it’s sizzling, add the bottom beef (or floor turkey), onion, salt, and pepper. Brown the meat, utilizing a wood spoon to interrupt it up because it cooks. You’ll be able to drain the fats off in case you’d like however in case you use floor sirloin or floor spherical, you actually received’t have to.

Add the garlic and cabbage. Stir within the garlic and cook dinner simply till it’s aromatic, then add the cabbage and cook dinner it for five minutes, stirring sometimes. You wish to soften it only a bit, however not all the best way—the simmering will try this.

Carry to a boil. Pour within the broth, tomatoes, tomato sauce and paste, together with the seasonings and Worcestershire sauce. Carry the soup to a boil, then scale back the warmth to medium low.

Simmer. Stir within the rice, then simmer the soup coated for 30 to 35 minutes, or till the rice is cooked by way of. Stir sometimes to maintain the rice from sticking to the underside of the pan.

End. Discard the bay leaf and season the soup to style. At this level, you possibly can add extra broth if the soup appears too thick to you. Serve the soup with a sprinkle of contemporary parsley. My household loves it with a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese, too.

Ideas and Variations

• Reduce the cabbage to the scale of a spoon. There’s no strategy to gracefully eat soup made with gigantic items of cabbage. Be conscious while you’re chopping the cabbage to cut it to roughly the scale of a spoon so it’s straightforward to eat.
• Make it creamy. A spoonful of bitter cream is a scrumptious topping for this cabbage roll soup; stirred into the soup, it provides a pleasant creaminess. Make sure that so as to add it off the warmth so it doesn’t curdle.
• Cooking time could range in case you swap out the white rice. If you wish to use brown rice or one other grain like farro, barley, or wheat berries, take into account that you will have to cook dinner the soup longer till the grains are tender, so monitor the soup intently because it simmers. Add extra broth if essential.

Serving Strategies

Refrigerate: Switch leftover cabbage roll soup to an hermetic container and refrigerate it for as much as 3 to 4 days. 

Freeze: Freeze leftovers in an hermetic container or a freezer bag with the surplus air pressed out. (I like utilizing freezer baggage as a result of I can freeze them flat and stack them, which makes higher use of freezer house!) Freeze for as much as 3 months and thaw within the fridge earlier than reheating.

Reheat: Soups made with rice will thicken throughout storage, however this one isn’t made with so a lot rice that it ought to be an enormous situation, particularly because it’s meant to be a thick soup. In the event you discover the soup thickens greater than you’d like, simply add a splash extra broth when reheating. You’ll be able to heat up the soup in a pan set over medium warmth or within the microwave.

• Warmth a big pot or Dutch oven over medium warmth. When the pot is sizzling, add the bottom beef, onion, salt, and pepper; cook dinner, breaking the meat up into crumbles, till browned and cooked by way of, 7 to eight minutes. If desired, drain extra fats.

  1 lb. lean floor beef (95/10) or floor turkey, 1 cup diced onion, 1 teaspoon kosher salt, ½ teaspoon coarse floor black pepper

• Add minced garlic to the pan; cook dinner, stirring, for 1 minute or till aromatic.

  4 cloves garlic, minced or pressed

• Stir within the cabbage and cook dinner for five minutes, stirring sometimes, till it softens barely.

  ½ head medium inexperienced cabbage, chopped

• Pour within the broth, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, and tomato paste. Add Worcestershire sauce, bay leaf, paprika, thyme, and oregano. Stir, and convey the soup to a boil. Cut back warmth to medium low.

  5 cups beef broth, 1 can (15 oz.) diced tomatoes, undrained, 1 can (15 oz.) tomato sauce, 1 can (6 oz.) tomato paste, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, 1 bay leaf, 2 teaspoons paprika, 1 teaspoon dried thyme, 1 teaspoon dried oregano

• Stir in rice. Cowl the pan, and simmer for 30 to 35 minutes, till the rice is cooked and the cabbage is tender. Stir the soup sometimes to stop the rice from sticking to the underside of the pan.

  ½ cup raw lengthy grain white rice

• Take away the bay leaf, style the soup and modify salt and pepper, if desired. If the soup is simply too thick, stir in additional broth as wanted.

• Ladle the soup into bowls and garnish with contemporary parsley.

• Broth: In the event you desire, you should utilize 4 cups broth (32 oz. carton) and add 1 cup water as a substitute of utilizing 5 cups of broth. Be at liberty so as to add extra broth or water to regulate the consistency of the soup to your liking. As written, the soup is kind of thick, nearly stew-like in consistency.
• Salt: We at all times select low sodium or no-salt-added broth and canned tomato merchandise (diet data displays that). For the reason that saltiness depends upon the kind of broth and tomatoes you employ, it’s vital to style the soup earlier than serving it to find out whether or not it wants extra salt or pepper. 
• Floor meat: I often use a 95/10 floor beef (floor spherical or floor sirloin). In the event you use floor beef that isn’t as lean it’s possible you’ll wish to drain off the surplus grease. I typically make this soup with floor turkey as a substitute of beef, and it’s very flavorful, too. You’ll be able to substitute hen or turkey broth in case you are utilizing floor turkey.
• Storage: Refrigerate leftover soup promptly; it can maintain for 3 to 4 days. Cabbage roll soup freezes effectively, too. When reheating, add further broth or water if soup appears too thick. 

Serving: 1.5cups, Energy: 197kcal, Carbohydrates: 25g, Protein: 19g, Fats: 3g, Saturated Fats: 1g, Polyunsaturated Fats: 0.4g, Monounsaturated Fats: 1g, Trans Fats: 0.2g, Ldl cholesterol: 35mg, Sodium: 676mg, Potassium: 1149mg, Fiber: 5g, Sugar: 9g, Vitamin A: 931IU, Vitamin C: 36mg, Calcium: 81mg, Iron: 4mg

Diet data is routinely calculated, so ought to solely be used as an approximation.

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