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This is a common Russian soup, called Kapusniak. This was something my mother made on a weekly basis. She’s often added sauerkraut to the fresh cabbage, but replacing sauerkraut with canned, diced tomatoes, also adds the same sour flavor.

Cabbage Soup in a bowl with bread and butter next to it

Cabbage soups are becoming diet foods nowadays. It’s so delicious, that it’s hard to believe that it’s considered a diet meal.

Other Traditional Russian Soups to Try

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Cabbage Soup in a bowl with bread and butter next to it

Cabbage Soup Recipe

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Servings
10 Servings
Prep Time 20 mins
Cook Time 30 mins
Total Time 50 mins

Ingredients

  • 1 lb Bone In Meat
  • 2 tbsp Beef Better Than Bullion
  • 3 medium Potatoes
  • 1/2 small Cabbage Head
  • 1 large Carrot
  • 1 small Onion
  • 10 oz canned Diced Tomatoes
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil

Instructions

  • Clean and dice potatoes into small pieces. Shred cabbage into small pieces.
    Ingredients on table including; a carrots, 3 potatoes, half a cabbage, an onion and Better then Bouillion beef base
  • Rinse meat. In a pot with 4 quarts of water, cook meat for about 30 minutes, season the water with some beef better than bullion.
    Water in a pot being boiled with pieces of meat and better then beef bullion
  • To the cooking ingredients, add potatoes and cabbage, simmer for another 10 minutes.
    Cabbage added to boiling pot of water and meat
  • Dice onions and shred carrots. Sautee onions with a bit of oil until golden brown, add carrots and sautee for another 5 minutes. Add diced tomatoes to the sauteed ingredients and cook for another 5 minutes.
    Carrots and onions being sautéed and diced tomatoes added to the skillet
  • Remove meat from the soup, take the meat off the bone. Place meat back into the soup, discard the bone.
    Meat on a plate with the meat being pulled off the bone with a fork
  • Serve cabbage soup while its warm.
    Cabbage Soup in a bowl with bread and butter next to it
Posted January 17, 2014

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Natalya founded Momsdish to demonstrate that placing a homemade meal on the table is not hard at all. Natalya makes cooking easier and approachable, by simplifying the ingredients, while still producing the same great taste.