Best Stuffed Cabbage Soup Recipes

LAZY GOLUMPKI (STUFFED CABBAGE) SOUP

Steps:

• Heat butter in a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion until tender, 5 to 10 minutes. Add ground beef; cook and stir until beef is browned and crumbly, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Combine water, cabbage, tomato puree, tomato soup, rice, beef bouillon, salt, and pepper in a slow cooker; add ground beef mixture.
• Cook on High for 8 hours.

STUFFED CABBAGE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Cook and stir ground beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Add coleslaw mix and onion; cook for 4 minutes. Add broth, tomatoes, water, brown sugar, lemon juice, and salt.
• Bring mixture to a boil, add rice, and reduce heat to medium-low. Cover and let simmer until rice is tender, about 45 minutes.

UN-STUFFED CABBAGE SOUP

Steps:

• For the meatballs: In a large bowl, combine the ground meat, rice, salt, pepper, cumin and onions. Form into 1-inch balls and set aside while you make the soup.
• For the soup: In a 6-quart pot, sweat the garlic in the olive oil until white in color. Add the onions and sweat until translucent. Then add 1 1/2 cups water, the carrots, tomato paste, brown sugar, ketchup and whole tomatoes with juice. Season with salt and pepper and simmer at a lively bubble for 10 minutes. Crush the whole tomatoes with a potato masher or fork. Continue to simmer until the carrots are tender, about 10 more minutes.
• Working in batches, transfer the soup to a blender and blend until smooth but not pureed. Return the soup to the pot. Remove the cabbage ribs and cut the leaves crosswise into 1/4-inch ribbons. Add the cabbage to the soup and stir to incorporate. Add the bay leaf and simmer over medium-high heat for 10 minutes more (the cabbage should be reduced in size). Add water to thin the soup to the desired consistency. Add the meatballs and simmer for 25 minutes. Add the lemon juice and raisins 10 minutes before serving.
• Ladle the soup into bowls and garnish with sour cream and dill.

CROCK POT STUFFED CABBAGE SOUP

Steps:

• In a pot, warm the oil over medium heat, and saute beef and onions until onions are soft and beef is browned (8 minutes).
• Drain off the fat, and add the tomatoes, bouillon, barley, splenda, paprika, garlic, pepper, and tabasco; mix well.
• Put the cabbage in the crock pot, and top with meat mixture (Do NOT stir); top with beef broth.
• Cover and cook on LOW for 9 hours.
• Stir soup well; continue to cook covered on LOW for another hour.

HEARTY STUFFED CABBAGE SOUP (HALUPKI SOUP)

Steps:

• 1. Brown meat in a 4-5 quart Dutch oven over medium high heat. Do not drain.
• 2. Add onion, garlic and bouillon. Mix well and cook for 3-4 minutes or until onion starts to soften.
• 3. Add the cabbage. Mix well. Cover and cook for 6-8 minutes, stirring often, until cabbage wilts.
• 4. Add the tomatoes, tomato sauce, beef stock, beef broth, sugar, vinegar and rice. Mix well to combine. Cover and cook an additional 10-12 minutes to combine flavors.
• 5. NOTE: Instead of using the bouillon and brown rice, sometimes I use a box of beef flavored Rice-a-Roni instead ...... (replace beef broth with water)..... add in step 4 and cook a bit longer until rice and vermicelli are cooked thru ....

CROATIAN SARMA SOUP (STUFFED CABBAGE SOUP)

Steps:

• Cook turkey bacon in frying pan until crisped, remove from pan to drain on paper towels. Crumble and set aside.
• Add ground beef to pan and brown in turkey bacon drippings until almost cooked through.
• Add diced onion and cook 4-5 minutes until onions are transparent.
• Add garlic and cook an additional 1-2 minutes.
• Drain meat mixture on paper towel lined plate.
• Place all ingredients, including meat mixture and turkey bacon, in a large pot and cook over medium heat until it boils. Turn heat down and cook for at least one hour, stirring occasionally. Add a little water if it gets too thick for your liking. I cook mine 2-3 hours.

STUFFED CABBAGE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in 6 qt.
• pot over medium heat.
• Add beef, saute until browned.
• Add coleslaw mix and onion.
• Cook covered 4 minutes, stirring after 2.
• Add tomatoes, beef broth, water, brown sugar.
• lemon juice and salt.
• Bring to boil.
• Add rice, reduce heat to medium-low.
• Simmer, covered, 45 minutes or until beef and rice are tender.

STUFFED CABBAGE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat large stock pot and begin to brown beef and pork. Add onion and carrot, salt and pepper to taste. Cook until meat and veggies are cooked through.
• Drain all fat from the pan.
• Add remaining spices, tomatoes and tomato sauce and bring to simmer.
• Add cabbage and stir well.
• Simmer soup 30 minutes or more.
• Serve soup as is or with a scoop of cooked white rice in the bowl.

STUFFED CABBAGE SOUP

Steps:

• Brown ground beef, ground pork & onion in a skillet over medium high heat.
• Pour meat into a large crockpot.
• Add stewed tomatoes, coleslaw mx, sauerkraut, water, bouillon, salt & pepper.
• Add the barley the last hour of cooking.
• Slow-cook on low heat 4 to 8 hours.

HEARTY STUFFED CABBAGE SOUP

Steps:

• Saute onion and ground beef in a large soup pot until meat is browned. Do not drain.
• Add sugar and cabbage and mix well. Add next 4 ingredients and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 1 - 1 1/2 hours.
• Add rice and simmer 10 more minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

CROATIAN SARMA SOUP (STUFFED CABBAGE SOUP)

Steps:

• Cook turkey bacon in frying pan until crisped, remove from pan to drain on paper towels. Crumble and set aside.
• Add ground beef to pan and brown in turkey bacon drippings until almost cooked through.
• Add diced onion and cook 4-5 minutes until onions are transparent.
• Add garlic and cook an additional 1-2 minutes.
• Drain meat mixture on paper towel lined plate.
• Place all ingredients, including meat mixture and turkey bacon, in a large pot and cook over medium heat until it boils. Turn heat down and cook for at least one hour, stirring occasionally. Add a little water if it gets too thick for your liking. I cook mine 2-3 hours.

STUFFED CABBAGE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in large stock pot. Add beef and brown. Skim off fat. Add onion, carrot and celery and brown lightly. Add leeks, garlic, shallot, sugar, honey and vinegar. Cook a couple of minutes. Add cabbage, cinnamon, cloves and parsley. Tie orange rind and bay leaves together with butcher's twine in a coffee filter or cheesecloth and toss it in. Add tomatoes, stock and sauce. Season with salt and pepper. Cook until it smells and tastes good, about an hour.

STUFFED CABBAGE SOUP

Steps:

• Start by browning your sausage. I put my minced garlic in with this just to cook it a bit.
• Chop cabbage into bite size pieces, and put into your soup pot.
• When sausage is done, put in with the cabbage. Then fill pot with v8 until it is almost submerged, or whatever amount you would like. Season and boil until cabbage is cooked.
• If you chose to include rice, cook that and then add it to the soup. Enjoy!

"STUFFED CABBAGE" SOUP

Steps:

• Meatballs---beat the egg in a medium bowl.
• Add the bread crumbs, salt, and pepper; mix together.
• Add the beef and mix lightly but thoroughly with your hands; roll into 16 meatballs.
• Heat the oil in a large pot over med-high heat.
• In batches, add the meatballs and cook, turning occasionally, until browned, about 5 minutes.
• Using a slotted spoon, transfer to a plate, leaving the fat in the pot.
• Soup--add the oil to the fat in the pot.
• Add onion, carrots, and celery and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 5 minutes.
• Stir in the garlic and cook until it gives off its fragrance, about 1 minute.
• Add the cabbage and stir well.
• Add the stock, tomatoes, and their puree, water, thyme, sugar, vinegar, and bay leaf, and bring to a boil.
• Decrease heat to med-low and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Add the meatballs and cook until they show no sign of pink when pierced in the center, about 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, bring a medium saucepan of salted water to a boil over high heat.
• Add the rice and reduce the heat to med-low.
• Simmer until the rice is tender, about 20 minutes.
• Drain in a wire sieve and rinse under cold running water.
• Stir the cooked rice into the soup; season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Serve hot, with a dollop of sour cream on each serving.