Old Fashioned Cabbage Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Put cabbage in soup pot or a Dutch oven. Add potato cubes.
• Fill pot 1/2 way up the cabbage with chicken broth (or water) and cook until tender.
• Meanwhile, cook sausage in a fry pan. Drain. Cut sausage in pieces and add to soup.
• In same fry pan with the sausage drippings, add flour stirring constantly until brownish color.
• Add chicken broth (or water) gradually to make a thick "gravy". Add chopped onion and cook for about 2 to 3 minutes.
• Combine in soup. Season with salt, pepper and sugar. Let it simmer for a few more minutes stirring constantly.
• Taste seasonings and serve warm with fresh bread slices.

Steps:

• Place chopped cabbage into an 8-quart soup pot.
• Microwave diced carrot in 2 tablespoons water for 6 minutes on high.
• Microwave diced celery in 2 tablespoons water for 4 minutes on high.
• Add the microwaved vegetables to the pot. Add minced sweet onion, celery, and ketchup. Add juice cocktail, vegetable broth, chicken broth, and tomatoes. Fill each can with water, and add the water to the mixture. Cover, and bring to a boil. Continue boiling for 30 minutes.
• Reduce heat to simmer and cook for 2 to 3 hours.
• Serve with slices of a French baguette. Have salt, black pepper, and Tabasco available to season to taste at the table.

Steps:

• For the soup: Heat the olive oil in a stockpot over medium heat. Add the onion, celery, carrots and garlic and cook, stirring often, until the onions are translucent (not browned), about 8 minutes. Add salt, black pepper and crushed red pepper flakes to your desired preference. Then stir in the fresh tomatoes, canned tomatoes and vegetable stock and bring the entire mixture to a boil.
• Once boiling, stir in the cabbage and beans and keep it simmering, stirring occasionally, until the cabbage is tender, 35 to 40 minutes. Add more stock or water if you prefer more liquid and taste and season with more salt and pepper, if necessary. When finished, sprinkle over and stir in the parsley for color and flavor.
• Ladle the soup into bowls and serve with crostini or garlic bread, if desired.
• For the crostini: Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place the bread slices on a baking sheet. Brush the tops with olive oil. You can also smear minced garlic over the top, if desired.
• Bake until crunchy and golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Take the crostini out of the oven, drizzle the tops with olive oil and sprinkle sea salt over the top.

Steps:

• In a stockpot, cook the cabbage, celery and onion in water until tender. Add bouillon, salt, pepper, beef and tomato sauce. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer 10 minutes. Stir in brown sugar and ketchup; simmer another 10 minutes to allow flavors to blend.

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink, breaking it into crumbles; drain. Stir in the remaining ingredients except parsley. , Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1 hour. Garnish with parsley.

Steps:

• Boil cabbage and shave thick part of stem. Let cool slightly.
• Fry beef with onion.
• Add egg, rice, ketchup and Worcestershire sauce.
• Fill each cabbage leaf with this mixture, then roll up and place in a roasting pan.
• In a large bowl, mix the 2 cans of tomato soup with the vinegar and 1 can of water; pour over cabbage rolls.
• Bake covered for 2 hours at 350 degrees.