Cabbage Roll Soup Recipe
Cabbage roll soup is a winter comfort food with all the same flavors of your favorite stuffed cabbage rolls, but in a bowl!
Ingredients
- 1 ½ lb Ground Beef
- 1 Onion
- ½ green pepper diced
- 2 cloves Garlic minced
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 Teaspoon Paprika
- 1 Teaspoon Thyme
- ¼ Cup carrot shredded
- 1 medium head cabbage chopped core removed
- ¾ Cup long grain rice uncooked
- 1 28 ounce Diced Tomatoes can
- 4 Cups beef broth
- 1 ½ Cup V8 or other vegetable juice
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 2 bay leaf
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- Heat a large pot over medium high heat and brown the ground beef, breaking up the meat with a wooden spoon until it is no longer pink.
- Transfer the cooked ground beef to a clean plate.
- Carefully remove all but a few tablespoons of the rendered beef fat from the pan.
- Add the onions and green peppers to the pot and saute the vegetables until they start to take on a bit of color. 4-5 minutes.
- Add the grated garlic and stir, cooking 30 seconds until the garlic becomes fragrant.
- Add the browned beef back to the pot and stir to combine.
- Add the tomato paste and the spices to the meat and vegetable mixture and stir to warm through. This will 'wake up' the spices and tomato paste bringing them to full flavor.
- Add the cabbage, carrots, diced tomatoes (with juice), beef broth, vegetable juice, rice, bay leaf and Worcestershire sauce to the pot.
- Bring to a boil and drop to a simmer, cover and cook for 25 minutes or until rice is tender.
- Remove bay leaf and discard.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 | Calories: 209kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 50mg | Sodium: 557mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 5g
Notes
How to make cabbage roll soup in a crock-pot:
- Heat a large pot over medium high heat and brown the ground beef.
- Remove the browned beef and add it to your large slow cooker.
- Carefully remove all but a few tablespoons of the rendered beef fat from the pan.
- Add the onions and green peppers to the pot and saute the vegetables.
- Add the grated garlic and stir, cooking 30 seconds until the garlic becomes fragrant.
- Transfer the cooked vegetables too your large crock-pot add the rest of the soup ingredients WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE RICE.
- Cover and cook on low 6-8 hours or on high 3-4 hours.
- Add the rice to the soup, stirring to combine and cook an additional 20 minutes to cook the rice.
CourseSoup
CuisineAmerican
