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Cabbage Soup Recipes

Big-batch pots of savory, low-calorie cabbage soup the Pepper community simmers for cold-weather dinners, reset weeks, and freezer stashes.

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Cabbage Soup

Delicious cabbage soup

1h 45m250 cal10 g proteinServes 551 saves
Damon MillerDamon Miller

Ingredients

  • 1 head chopped Cabbage
  • 1 bulb diced Onion
  • 1 clove minced Garlic
  • drizzle Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 1/4 stick Butter
  • 1 can Cannellini beans
  • to taste Rosemary
  • to taste Thyme
  • 1 leaf Bay Leaf
  • 1 jar Marinara sauce
  • 32 oz Vegetable broth
  • 2 or 3 cups Water

Instructions

  1. 1Prepare your vegetables by roughly chopping your cabbage, dicing your onion, and mincing your garlic.
  2. 2In a large pot, heat your olive oil and melt your butter over medium high heat. Once your butter is completely melted add your onion and garlic into the pot. Sautée the onion and garlic until onion isn't white (getting opaque) and garlic is fragrant.
  3. 3Once you completely sautéed your onion and garlic, add in the cabbage and let it cook down for roughly 10 minutes giving it a mixing every couple minutes to make sure most of the cabbage gets exposed to heat and softens up a bit.
  4. 4Once the cabbage has cooked down add your cannellini beans, rosemary, thyme, and bay leaf. Then add your vegetable broth, marinara sauce, and water (the cabbage should be completely submerged). Give the mixture a good stir.
  5. 5Bring the mixture to a boil and then drop your heat down and simmer for about 45 minutes or until cabbage has turned translucent.

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Why the Best Cabbage Soup Cooks the Cabbage Twice

A quick sauté in butter before the broth goes in turns cabbage from watery filler into something deeply savory — the second cook in liquid finishes it off.

Cooks on Pepper build cabbage soup around one anchor — smoked sausage, ground beef, white beans — that keeps a low-calorie soup from tasting like a diet.

The recipes here are the community's cold-weather rotation — the pots big enough to eat for four days and still improve by Wednesday.

Quick Tips

  1. 1

    Sauté before simmering

    Cabbage tastes flat if it goes straight into broth — five minutes in butter changes everything.

  2. 2

    Add acid at the end

    A splash of vinegar or lemon right before serving wakes up a long-cooked soup dramatically.

  3. 3

    Freeze in portions

    Cabbage soup improves for four days then plateaus — freeze the second half for a lazy Thursday.

  4. 4

    Bulk with beans or sausage

    Cannellini beans or smoked sausage turn a broth into a full meal without much extra work.

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