In this Cabbage & Noodles recipe, simple pantry ingredients create a comforting dish in just minutes. Tender sweet cabbage, fluffy egg noodles and deliciously browned sausage are tossed with butter, salt & pepper. A perfectly comforting meal that your whole family will love!
When I was a kid, I loved veggies and now that I’m older, I love them even more. Right near the top of my list is cabbage!
Not only does it taste great either raw or cooked, it’s so good for you! Typically we use it in cabbage rolls or cabbage roll soup but of course it’s great in a nice crunchy coleslaw too!
Cabbage and Noodles (aka Haluskie) is an old Polish dish and it’s one of my favorites from my Grandmother! Different areas have slightly different versions, Slovak Halusky is more of a potato dumpling while other areas enjoy it as cabbage and noodles.
Regardless of what you call this dish, it’s the perfect way to enjoy the sweet flavors of cabbage and a great way to get a meal on the table on a busy weeknight!
Don’t let the simplicity of this recipe deter you from giving it a try, ingredients don’t have to be fancy to taste amazing!
When seasoning this dish, be generous with the salt & pepper, it makes this extra good! I typically use egg noodles in this dish, I love the light fluffy texture and you can use any type of sausage. If you don’t like sausage, feel free to crisp up some bacon (and sub in some of the bacon grease in place of the butter) or skip the meat altogether.
Ingredients
- 12 ounces kielbasa or smoked sausage, sliced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil divided
- ¼ cup salted butter
- 1 large onion diced
- ½ head green cabbage chopped, approx. 6 to 7 cups
- 1 clove garlic minced
- ⅔ cup frozen peas
- 8 ounces egg noodles measured dry
- salt and black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cook noodles according to package directions, drain and set aside.
- In a large saucepan, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil. Cook sausage until lightly browned.
- Add remaining olive oil, butter and onion. Cook until softened, about 5 minutes.
- Add cabbage and garlic. Cook until tender (10-15 minutes). Stir in peas, noodles and salt & pepper. Cook 2-3 minutes or until heated through.
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Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Main Course
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Wonderful food..I would love to be able to save the recipes!!
Hi Carolyn,
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We are so excited to try this. We have leftover ham from easter or polish sausage brats…which would you use? Help please lol. Also, what brand or flavor keilbasa do you use normally…for next time haha.
I think both would be delicious ways to make this dish Joe!
Hi Joe: If you’re like me, you must find packaged kielbasa disgusting! I order my REAL Polish kielbasa online, from reputable (private) provision companies, NOT like Hillshire Farms, or other supermarket available brands. Check out “Martin Rosol Provision Co., New Britain, Ct. They’re a hometown brand, which has been around for a long time. You won’t be disappointed in any of their online available products, I promise you (especially if you’re Polish). Smacznego!
Love the cabbage and sausage,would like to try cabbage rolls but cannot eat tomatoes in any form could I use a chicken stock or similar?
While I have only made the recipe as written, I think that a chicken stock could work for you, so that you can enjoy the dish Elaine.
Instead of cabbage, I’m using sauerkraut which is another form of cabbage. Should be good. I’m Polish.
Sounds delicious Vicki, enjoy!
I want this recipe please, and future ones.
Enjoy, Marylou!
I place the larger leaves that are too large for rolling on the bottom of the dish and put the rolls on top. The cabbage is so sweet and tender! Delicious!
Great idea Linda!
I add corn and onions to ours—cook the cabbage until it’s translucent and the kids enjoy it and eat it no problem!!!!
Great additions Nina!
We loved this!! Great recipe…thank you!
Glad you loved it Jeanie!
I made this last night and we loved it, especially my husband! Next time I will add the entire head of cabbage. I almost did, and ended up wishing I had. I added a little bit of water in with the cabbage so it would steam it a little. The need for adequate salt and pepper cannot be overstated, lol. Thanks for sharing!
So glad you loved it Jen!
Dee-lish! Followed it exactly, but added some ‘shrooms to the onions and garlic because I had them on hand. A worthy addition! Thanx for the recipe!
Yum! Sounds perfect to me Jim!
I make this dish often so was glad to see your post, I change a few things but for the most part everything’s pretty much the same. I don’t use the peas or the olive oil as I’ve found the sausage creates enough of its own grease to cook in. Once browned I add in the onion, cabbage and about a cup of low or no sodium chicken broth which helps to steam the cabbage and onion. I do not add salt as the sausage has plenty of that all its own but I do add pepper. Once it’s all done I add about 1/2 a stick of butter to coat everything (buttered noodles!). This is made about once every two weeks at my house and the entire family eats it – including my 3-year-old (who eats around the cabbage LOL).
Thank you for sharing your tips Lisa!
Just made the cabbage and noodles tonight. I substituted bacon grease for the olive oil, added 1/2 cup butter, instead of a 1/4 cup and used veggie spiral noodles…..salt and peppered the heck out it. My husband, grandsons, daughter in law and myself all went back for seconds. De-lish!!! Will definitely make it again.
Yummy Ronda!
We are on a very tight budget. In addition I suffer from several handicaps that make standing in the kitchen very difficult so my husband does most of the cooking. This is one of our favorite budget meals and we get at least 2 meals from this recipe. My husband just asked me this morning to find this recipe again. I believe I took it on our vacation last year and perhaps left my copy at someone’s home where we made the dish. My husband loves it and I like it too.
Great to hear that you found the recipe again Harriet!
We tried the kielbasa cabbage and noodles very easy to make very tasty definitely will make it again
So glad you loved it Pam!
2 of your ecipes in a row and comfort food happiness abounds! This was great!! Thank you
So glad you loved it Michelle!
Thank you so much for sharing , delicious and a new dish for my picky family
So glad your family loved this Nancy!
This is very good….we wanted to serve it on rice so added three coined carrots and made a sauce of 2 cups of chicken broth and about 1/4 cup of hoisin sauce (add it to taste) also I did add the bacon you mentioned. Think people could add drained sliced water chestnuts or cashews. It makes a huge tasty meal for 8!!!! Thanks
That sounds delicious Mickey! Thank you for sharing your adaptation.
Tried it with Zucchini noodles! Holy cow!!! A new favorite!
Such a yummy idea, thanks for sharing!
my family and i love buttered egg noodles, we also are fans of cabbage…so i tried your recipe and it looked great but i wanted to add some more color, so i added a can of stewed tomatoes, OMG it was great! thanks for the start to an amazing meal, already cant wait to make it again…THANKS!!
You’re so welcome! Glad to hear you loved it! And great addition!
Delicious! Haven’t had this in a bit and saw you featured on a buzzfeed! Inspired me to do your recipe. Simple, yummy and hearty! Thanks for the inspiration.
Glad you loved it!
I wanted to use up what was left from a package of cole slaw mix (shredded cabbage and carrots), and it came together beautifully.
So glad Anne!
The noodles go in hard (uncooked) and only take a few minutes?
In step 1, you cook the noodles according to package directions, drain and set aside. You add the cooked noodles to the dish in step 4. Hope that helps!