Crock Pot Cabbage Roll Soup is a simple twist on traditional Cabbage Rolls, a family favorite for years! Cabbage, onion, beef and bacon all tenderly prepared in a rich beef and tomato broth, slowly simmered in your crock pot.
This creates a nutritious and tasty soup that will warm your belly from the inside out! This is going to be your new family favorite meal!
Crock Pot Cabbage Roll Soup
I absolutely LOVE a good soup recipe. Soups are a great way to incorporate so many delicious flavors into one bowl. They’re easy to make and inexpensive, there’s good reason my Easy Hamburger Soup recipe is one of my most popular recipes on Facebook!
Crock Pot Cabbage Roll Soup contains several servings of veggies along with lean protein all simmered to perfection. We serve this alongside homemade Dinner Rolls for a meal that my family requests over and over again!
A Family Favorite
Growing up with Polish grandparents, cabbage rolls (and Cabbage and Noodles aka Haluski) were a staple in our family for both family gatherings and Sunday dinner. It was always one of my favorite things!
Traditional cabbage rolls are time-consuming – between preparing the filling, cooking the cabbage till tender and then there is the labour rolling them – whew! Of course, we make Cabbage Roll Casserole which is the lazy cabbage roll version with no rolling required.
As much as I love cabbage rolls (and unstuffed cabbage roll casserole), there really is nothing better than coming home to a meal ready to eat.
Easy Prep
Cabbage is easy to prepare and inexpensive (view more info in the The Ultimate Guide to Cabbage).This Crockpot Cabbage Roll Soup is the answer to rushed meal prep on busy weeknights!
Simply prepare your ingredients the evening before and quickly toss them into the crockpot before leaving the house for school or work or carrying on with your errands, soccer practice and swim lessons.
Dinner is ready when you are!
Easy Substitutions in Crock Pot Cabbage Roll Soup
- Ground Beef: You can substitute sausage, ground pork or ground turkey for half of the ground beef.
- Rice: To make this Cabbage Roll Soup lower in carbs, substitute the rice for Cauliflower Rice (this also lowers the calories or points if you’re following Weight Watchers).
- Diced Tomatoes: If you prefer whole canned tomatoes to diced, they also work great in this recipe.
- V8 Vegetable Juice: You Can use tomato juice in place of the vegetable juice or even canned tomato soup. (Do not substitute tomato sauce, it has a different flavor).
- Sodium: The low sodium/no sodium versions of all products in this soup work perfectly.
All the flavour and goodness of traditional cabbage rolls simmered together in one delicious bowl of crock pot cabbage roll soup! And the very best thing is it’s so easy!
Add the Bacon
Depending where you’re from, you may or may not add bacon to your cabbage rolls. It is used in this soup to add a slight smoky and salty flavor. We fry the bacon until crisp and then use a little bit of the bacon fat to cook the onion and beef. The bacon itself is stirred in just before serving (and used as a garnish) to keep it nice and crisp.
How to Freeze Cabbage Roll Soup
This Crock Pot Cabbage Roll Soup makes a HUGE batch of soup, perfect for feeding a crowd, eating a couple of nights in a row or taking for lunches. If you have leftovers, this soup also freezes well. I just simply spoon the desired amount in a freezer bag lay it flat to freeze (either large or individual servings).
If I’m feeding the family, I defrost it in the fridge the night before and dinner is ready to heat and eat in a flash!
Once you try it, I know for sure this Crockpot Cabbage Roll Soup is going to become a staple to your weekly menu plan. Warm, hearty and wholesome.
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- Cabbage and Sausage Foil Packets – Grill or bake!
- Cabbage Roll Soup Recipe (video)
- Braised Red Cabbage – Perfect side dish!
- The Best Coleslaw Recipe – Make ahead – great for potlucks or topping pulled pork!
- Colcannon Recipe (Cabbage and Potatoes) – Comfort food to the max!
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 pound thick cut bacon diced
- 1 large onion diced
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- ⅔ cup long grain white rice uncooked
- 6 to 8 cups chopped green cabbage
- 28 ounces canned diced tomatoes with juices, 1 can
- 10.75 ounces condensed tomato soup 1 can
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 5-6 cups beef broth
- 1 ½ cups vegetable juice such as V8
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- salt and black pepper to taste
- chopped fresh parsley for garnish
Instructions
- In a skillet, cook bacon until crisp and drain on paper towels leaving about 1 tablespoon bacon grease in the skillet.
- Brown onion and beef in the bacon fat. Once browned, drain excess fat and add to a 6qt (or larger) slow cooker.
- Add all remaining ingredients to the low cooker and stir to combine (it will be very full).
- Cover and cook on high 3-4 hours or low 6-7 hours until rice is fully cooked.
- Stir in half of cooked bacon.
- Spoon into bowls, top with remaining bacon and parsley if desired.
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Notes
- This can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, and reheated on the stove.
- This will keep in the freezer for up to 2 months. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator before reheating.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Soup
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I live alone and love crockpot recipes.
So happy you like them Annah!
Looking forward to trying some of these. Look easy and delicious.
You will have to let us know which ones are your favorites Karen! Have fun cooking.
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Looks good
Thank you Judi, enjoy!
Everything is always so good and easy to make!
Thank you Tammy! I’m so happy to hear that!
Awesome recipes. I would like try to make some this fall. They all look so good and easy to make.
Thank you Towanda, enjoy!
Your recipe very easy to follow and your dish is look great and taste great
Thanks Patsaneeya! So happy you enjoyed it.
love your recipes
Thanks Lana!
My son posts these recipes all the time. I copy them for further use. This cabbage roll soup is going to be made today
Enjoy Carol! We hope you and your son love this one!
Recipes look really good and I don’t have to buy a Kraft product to make them. Looking forward to finding some new ideas!
I hope you find many to try and enjoy Kay!
Looks good.
I hope you love it if you get a chance to try the soup Barbara!
I didn’t prepare this crock pot cabbage roll recipe. It was served at a soup affair I attended. There were so many soups, but this was a stand out. My personal favorite! It was so delicious. I bought what was leftover (just a quart) and it was even better the second day. I spoke to the cook who indicated she made no changes to the original recipe. I cannot wait to give this a go in my kitchen.
So glad you loved it Marj! Thank you for stopping by to visit!
I love making soups in the crockpot. This was a great find being that I had most everything at home. Only changes I made because I didn’t have tomatoe soup. I used 1 cup of prepared bloody mary mix I had in the fridge, and I used 3 cans of diced tomatoes and chilies b/c I did not have stewed tomatoes. I also added fennel seed, because I love that flavor in soups that have sausage type meats in there. Did not have bacon, but I did throw in some leftover corned beef that I had in the freezer. Looks fantastic! Thank you!
Hi Heidi, These substitutions sound really delicious! I hope you enjoyed the soup!
I live alone. Therefore most of the recipes make enough for me to eat for a month! Would it be possible to reduce the cabbage roll soup down to about two servings? That would give me some to eat and some to freeze.
Reducing the recipe to two servings would not work in the crockpot Ann. Check out Cabbage Roll Soup which is not cooked in the slow cooker and you could cook on the stove in reduced amounts. You may also like Creamy Sausage & Cabbage Eoup, Weight Loss Vegetable Soup and even Unstuffed Cabbage Roll Casserole!
Great soup for a cold night! Makes alot but can freeze. Left out bacon and soup was delicious anyway.
Hubby and I both enjoyed the soup, with a few substitutions. I couldn’t find any tomato paste in the cupboard and so I used tomato paste instead of that and the v8. I doubled the thyme and paprika, added oregano and basil and cayenne, and doubled the beef. I was going to make the bacon but then I forgot.. and it tasted great without it. We’ll make it again, for sure.
So glad you loved it Laura! Those sound like great additions.
I dont have v8 or veg juice.. Substitute??
You could use tomato juice or perhaps canned tomato soup or a bit of tomato sauce. You can also leave it out and add extra broth if you’d like.
This looks amazing. I only have a 5 qt. Crock Pot, what do you suggest I use less of , or will it fit ? I was thinking less of the beef broth.
I am not sure if it will fit but keep in mind you want to fill your slow cooker no more than ⅔ full so it can cook properly (and this is a fairly large recipe). You might like to half the recipe. Let us know how it goes!
I added some Crushed Red Pepper flakes to kick it up a notch. I didn’t like the consistency of rice. Will add it later so it’s not mushy like baby food but like regular rice.