When you’re a thirty-something girl of Romanian decent, you have a few options when craving delicious, comforting and hearty cabbage rolls: you can make a request of your mother or baba, you can purchase them (I like Peg’s Kitchen here in Regina!) or you can whip up recipes capturing the flavor of cabbage rolls without all the work (sorry, babas, you’re much better at it than younger generations are!)
One of my favorites is this Cabbage Roll Casserole recipe! I love all the cabbage-roll-hacks in this recipe, including using a bag of coleslaw in place of actually shredding a head of cabbage – brilliant!
I recently saw a post on Facebook sharing Cabbage Roll Soup and thought that, too, was genius. Soup is comfort-food to me, and adding in all the flavors of cabbage rolls makes this like a big warm hug from baba! Here’s the recipe, below and it truly was easy!
- 1 large onion, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 lb lean ground beef
- ¾ cup uncooked long grain brown rice
- 1 bag coleslaw mix (alternatively you can shred 1 medium head of cabbage)
- 1 can (398ml) diced tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 2 containers (900ml each) Campbell's Beef Broth
- 2 cups vegetable (V8 or other) juice
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon thyme
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 bay leaf
- salt and pepper, to taste
- In a large pot, brown the onion, garlic and beef. Drain fat (I don't like to rinse if I have garlic/onion cooked with it.)
- Stir in coleslaw mix and let it cook another 2-3 minutes to soften (like you are cooking a stir-fry!)
- Add all remaining ingredients, bring to a boil and reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer on low until rice is fully cooked (about 25-30 minutes)
- Serve with a dinner bun and butter for full comfort food utopia (don't forget to remove the bay leaf!)
I’ll be making this soup often this fall and winter when I have a cabbage-roll craving! Enjoy!
NOM NOM made some this morning!!! THANKS 🙂
These recipes looks so good. I really have to try cabbage soup, I never had that before.
I love this recipe but I can’t make it 🙁 Being married to a SK Ukrainian I could not chance using short cut recipe or BABA would be at the door hahaha Just kidding. I look forward to trying it.
Recipe look delicious. I love cabbage rolls. I will have to try this.
Oh wow – cabbage rolls remind me so much of my grandmother. This would be an awesome winter soup!
I will be making this one. looks tasty and filling.
Looks delicious! I will have to give this recipe a try.
I love cabbage and this soup sure would warm a person up in the cold weather.
I have a head of cabbage that is calling out to me for this!
All my favorite foods in one dish,,,,yum
This would be ideal for my daughter. She’s not too crazy over the actual rolls but she would love the soup.
Love the shortcut with the coleslaw mix for this Cabbage Roll Soup. It reminds me of unstuffed cabbage where you throw it all in a casserole dish and skip the part of rolling up the cabbage leaves.
Cabbage Roll Soup! I think I shall make almost every recipe here they are my kind of eats!
This looks as delicious (but less frustrating to make) as regular cabbage rolls!
I love cabbage rolls and to have that flavour without the work of rolling all those things sounds marvelous. You can be sure I’ll be trying this soon.
This is such a tasty and quick recipe and it freezes so well too! Have made this a few times already and there are rarely leftovers so I’ve started cooking up a double batch so I can fill my freezer 🙂
oh this looks sooooo yummy !!
oh my gosh the cabbage roll soup and casserole both look amazing…especially the soup!!! My babcia used to make cabbage rolls all the time. they are so yummy and it has been such a long time since i have had them last
have been wanting to make this for some time now; had some at my brother’s place.
This cabbage roll soup recipe sounds like such a comfort food.
Yummy! Cabbage rolls in a soup – OMG!!
I love cabbabge! We make a cabbage soup pretty similar to this but not quite, now with the snow hitting us.. some homemade cabbage roll soup would be amazing! Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Sounds like a delicious way to change up cabbage rolls! I love making soups!
I love cabbage rolls so I definitely have to give this a try!
what a great soup! thank you for the recipe