A healthy, hearty recipe for cabbage soup to warm you up in winter
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cabbage soup recipe
When I was a child at school in England, we were given a full meal at lunch time. Some of that food put me off for years. Cabbage was one of them.Cabbage: pale, soggy and stinky. It's taken me a long time to learn to like it. Note - "like", not love it.
In spite of all that, here's a cabbage soup recipe that tastes really good. It's easy to make and I'll often freeze some before adding the potato. (Frozen potato has a strange texture that I also don't like.) After I thaw the soup I add the mashed potato. It makes a hearty winter soup, especially served with a sandwich.
Cabbage soup recipe
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 medium to large onion, chopped
- 1/3 - 1/2 medium cabbage, chopped
- 3 cups soup stock or bouillon cube and water
- 1 can chopped tomatoes
- 2 - 3 potatoes, cooked and mashed
- Salt and pepper
Directions
- In a large pot, gently saute the onions and cabbage until it's soft.
- Add the soup stock and tomatoes. Bring to a boil, then simmer until the vegetables are cooked.
- Stir in the mashed potatoes. Heat up again.
Notes for making this homemade cabbage soup recipe
I usually make a big batch of this soup because the cabbage makes the house smelly (to me anyway). That means I have to freeze some of it. That's when I don't add the potato because freezing seems to change the texture, even though it's mashed. (I don't know how they do it for fries!)
Sometimes I add crushed or finely chopped garlic, but it tends to overpower the cabbage. (I never thought I'd say that after having had those school lunches.)
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