Cook CABBAGE SOUP Homemade
This is how to make and cook cabbage soup homemade step-by-step in about an hour. Included are tips, options, and amazing health benefits like others in our Soups section from our Side Dishes category.
How To Make And Cook Cabbage Soup Overview
This complete easy-to-follow recipe will guide you how to make and cook cabbage soup the fastest possible way. I summarize here the steps.
- Pull out pot and ingredients.
- Dice onions and add it along with initial ingredients to cook for 5 minutes.
- Chop carrots and cut up a cabbage. Add all remaining ingredients to cook covered for 1 hour.
- Ready to serve.
Cabbage Soup Ingredients
The cabbage soup ingredients used in this recipe are simple and common. You just need a cabbage head, carrots, onions, chicken broth, minced garlic, and black pepper.
How To Make Cabbage Soup
When you make cabbage soup, most recipes call for the entire head of cabbage and an enormous pot. Also, most will end up with an oversized amount of servings that you’ll end up throwing out because it’s too much left over. So, this recipe uses just ½ head of cabbage and is far more practical. You just use a regular medium-sized pot and it still makes a good amount of 8 servings.
You’ll just peel the onions, dice them, and cook in some oil for a few minutes. Then, you add in the rest of the ingredients, cover the pot, and come back in an hour. Overall, it’s very simple and very fast. Most important, the recipe is in an order to make it the quickest and most efficient.
Storing Cabbage Soup
When storing cooked cabbage soup, just keep it in the fridge or freezer. It can last 7 days in the fridge. Also, you can freeze it for lasting up to 6 months. However, if you added in any optional meat, it keeps frozen for up to 3 months or in the fridge for 3-4 days.
Expert Tips To Cook Cabbage Soup
Here are some expert tips to improve when you cook cabbage soup.
- Although the recipe calls for a specific type of onions, use the type that you typically prefer. For example, I prefer sweet onions but a lot of people also pref yellow onions. So, change it to the kind you mostly like.
- Also, for an extra kick, add in ¼ teaspoon of cayenne red pepper.
- In addition, if you want some meat, add in cubed or cutup chicken, roasted turkey, ham or leftover ham. Others have added in ground beef or leftover cooked hamburger, but the most commonly preferred are those initially listed.
- If it’s too plain tasting for you, just replace the water with more chicken broth. Another option is to add some salt to taste.
- And if you prefer to cook cabbage soup in an Instant Pot or other Pressure Cooker, just use the soup settings and it will be fine.
- Finally, if you like to cook cabbage soup in a slow cooker all day, just toss in all the ingredients and set it to “Low”. It’s handy to have it ready when you get home from work.
Cabbage Soup Health Benefits
Cabbage soup health benefits are great. Firstly, cabbage soup calories are a little over 50 calories per serving. Also, cabbage is excellent for reducing stomach ulcers, is full of vitamin K, and lowers the “bad cholesterol”. So, that health info is taken from an excellent article “Considering the Cabbage Soup Diet? Here’s Why To Steer Clear” by Leandra Beabout. The article was medically reviewed by Grant Tinsley, PhD, CSCS, *D, CISSN.
The article has health benefits of cabbage soup but alos illustrates the pros and cons of following a cabbage soup diet. Personally, I use it as a side for meals or as a lighter lunch replacement.
Related to Cabbage
Here are some posts related to cabbage.
And here are some recipe items that go great with Cabbage Soup.
- Cornbread Muffins
- Small 6-inch Skillet Cornbread
- Medium 10-inch Skillet Cornbread
- Large 12-inch Skillet Cornbread
Other Homemade Soups To Try
Conclusion of How To Make and Cook Cabbage Soup
To conclude, you’ve seen how easy and quick you can make and cook cabbage soup. And the health benefits including about 50 calories per serving were covered. You saw the common ingredients of cabbage, carrots, and onions were healthy and present. The best part was it cooks unattended in a regular covered pot for an hour. There was even a section on popular meats to add if you wanted. Time’s up so, add a cabbage head to your grocery list. Then, make it and share it. Let me know your thoughts with a comment.
Cabbage Soup
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Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp vegetable oil or bacon drippings
- 1½ medium diced onions
- 1 Tbsp minced garlic
- ⅔ cups diced carrots 1 carrot = ⅓ cup
- ½ medium head cabbage cut as ½-inch chuncks
- ½ Tbsp Ground Black Pepper
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 1 cup water or this amount more chicken broth
Instructions
- In a medium large pot, add oil, diced onions, and diced carrots. Cook on medium heat for about 5 minutes.1½ medium diced onions, 1 Tbsp vegetable oil, ⅔ cups diced carrots
- Toss in cabbage chunks and black pepper. Mix it all up well.½ medium head cabbage, 1/2 Tbsp Ground Black Pepper
- Add in chicken broth & water. Stir everything to combine well. Increase heat to boiling. Then, reduce heat to medium low. Cover pot and continue at medium low for 1 hour. Then, serve.4 cups chicken broth, 1 cup water
Nutrition
Never made cabbage soup before. I was always just so-so on cooked cabbage but I thought I’d try this soup recipe for a weight loss thing that was suggested using cabbage soup. It was a lot better than I thought. Pretty good flavor.