This hearty cabbage soup with chicken, pork and lots of vegetables is a simple one pot meal.
Cabbage Soup with Chicken and Pork
There’s nothing like a hearty soup in middle of winter. This cabbage soup is perfect comfort food for a cold winter night and loaded with veggies! A few of my other favorite main dish soups are Stuffed Pepper Soup, Turkey Chili Taco Soup, and Beef, Tomato and Acini Di Pepe Soup. You can see more Soup Recipes here!
My cousin Katia through together this amazing soup. Made with a few simple ingredients she had on hand, it filled the kitchen with the aroma of comfort food. The portions are large, making this a filling main dish soup.
If you don’t like pork, you can add more chicken here. It’s made with chicken breast, but chicken thighs would also be great.
Cabbage Soup with Chicken and Pork
Ingredients
- 16 ounces boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 pound country style pork ribs, boneless
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 large chicken bouillon, such as Knorr
- 1/4 teaspoon cumin
- 8 cups water
- 1 medium head cabbage, chopped (about 9 cups)
- 3 medium carrots, chopped
- 2 large leeks, chopped (whites only)
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 yellow pepper, chopped
- 1.5 oz brandy, omit if you don't drink alcohol
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt, and black pepper, to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon Sazon, or turmeric, optional for color
Instructions
- Chop meat into small chunks.
- In a large pot, combine chicken, pork, water and bouillon, bay leaves and cumin and bring to a boil, then simmer about 15 minutes on medium heat.
- Add the vegetables and remaining ingredients.
- Reduce to low, cover and simmer for about 45 minutes.
This soup came out great! Been having it for a few days and it just gets better over time in the fridge. Made it with white and dark chicken as I didn’t have pork on hand. So yummy!
Great Soup- Made a few adjustments using 3 leeks and extra pork and chicken. Added some celery and better than bullion chicken. Less water and used chicken broth and chicken bone broth.
Thank you so much for making meal planning and the recipes so simple and easy! This one was really good. I have been following your meal plan for about a month now but I’ve been a fan for a long time and your recipes never disappoint! I even have a picky husband and he’s loved every recipe of yours that I’ve made so far!
Was skeptical at first but it’s really good. No offense to Gina but I did change to 4 cups low sodium chicken broth and 4 cups water with 1.5 Knorr chicken bouillon. I also added four garlic cloves, a dash of lemon pepper and some celery. Really yummy.
I’m a cabbage lover, so I love this soup. I didn’t have the bouillon cube, so I used 2 spoonfuls of chicken Better than Bouillon; probably 2 T. I also love the serving size! A nice big bowl! Please tell Katia it was fantastic!
can you make this in a crockpot?
Made it basically as written and it’s excellent! I didn’t have bouillon, so I used two teaspoons of Better than Bouillon. It’s a very good and healthy recipe. We will be making it again.
Making this tonight!! I’m wondering if this can be frozen or if the cabbage would be wonky…
Does this freeze?
Super easy soup to make and so-ooo good. I didn’t have leeks, so I used chopped onion.
I felt it needed more zip to it so I added some garlic seasoning. Otherwise, perfect!
Makes a huge pot, plenty to freeze.
Love Skinnytaste recipes. Keep up the good work, Gina
I made this for dinner last night. I used salt free chicken broth and added a spoonful of I csnt believe it’s not bouillon. I was going to use brandy but turns out I didn’t Have any!! I also added a bit of extra chicken as I didn’t want to use the pork Everything else was the same. I needed to then add a lot more seasoning ( more cumin and s/p) as it had so little flavor. I’m sure the pork adds flavor but I was a bit disappointed. Any suggestions for more flavor without the pork??
I don’t understand the bouillon cube and 8 cups of water. Wouldn’t it be more flavorful to use 8 cups of chicken or veggie broth?
Knorr brand bullion cubes are a little bigger than typical bullion cubes like Knox.
I would definitely use chicken broth and reduce the salt accordingly
Excellent…I used leftover roasted pork loin and a can of chicken breast so I was going to rate for my lack of ingredients but even without fresh meats, it was great.
What is ‘large chicken bullion’?
Excellent soup. Love the pork chicken mix.
The large chicken bouillon is a cube like oxo. Can be seen in the ingredients picture between the carrots and the pork
Same question , explain large chicken bullion? I cube would not be enough for all that water.
Some bullion cubes are extra large and concentrated (like the knorr she lists). If you don’t have those or like to use them, just use whatever you normally would use to create 8 cups of stock/broth. I personally like better than bullion.
Can this be frozen and still thaw out OK?
Sure
This was so good! Filling, Almost tasted like corned beef and cabbage. Great cold weather recipe!
What is considered a serving in this recipe: Cabbage Soup with Chicken and Pork?
It says 1 3/4 cups is a serving.
This soup was surprisingly delicious. I used boneless pork loin roast for the pork and it was so good!
Could you use beef instead of chicken?
Made this tonight and followed the recipe for the most part. Just added yellow potatoes and celery… it came out wonderful and I know it will make me feel better to. Under the weather ????
Could you make this in a crock pot?
This was really good! I did saute the leeks and carrots first, and I used chicken broth instead of water. Other than that I made it as written. Will totally make this again!
I’m cooking it right now and it smells wonderful. With the ingredients, the recipe reminds me so much of a Mexican stew known as Caldo. I used bone-in chicken thighs and boneless country style ribs, which I will remove the bone from the thighs and chop along with the country style ribs, after cooking. I will let you know how it tasted. Oh, I did not use any kind of alcohol.
Is the chicken precooked ?
I omitted the alcohol and only used boneless skinless chicken thighs. Also added some crushed red pepper flakes and diced up a super ripe tomatoe. Yum!!!
I made this tonight. I had to increase cooking time by 20 min to have everything cook through. I eliminated the brandy. Excellent flavor!! I would also like to know the servings in cups. Very difficult to divide by 8.
Substituted Turkey Kolbassi for chicken and pork…….awesome!
Can I make this with just drumstick? I would have to add a lot more water.
This soup was yummy and much needed for a slight detox after holidays and work travel. I omitted the pork, added celery and added lemon juice to it. Delish!
I added celery, chicken stock and fresh lime/cilantro upon serving and it was great 🙂
Is the meat pre cooked or cooked in the recipe?
Thanks for the recipe — it was a success!
I also would like to know what size your servings turned out to be… I know it might be a little different depending on how much meat you have in the measurements…but it'll be pretty close. Is it 1 3/4 cup? BTW… I made this recipe with out the brandy or bay leaves (because I didn't have them on hand) and it was still VERY yummy! I would never have thought to use pork in a soup. LOVE IT! My family has loved all the recipes of your that I have prepared! Thank you!!! 🙂
Could this be made in the crock pot?
Made this soup tonight, it was amazing. Love you site, I've already made about 3 recipes and I LOVE that there are still so many good one. Also, best arroz con pollo recipe ever.
Thanks!
Yum, yum, and yum! This soup had such a great flavor. Leftovers were fantastic too. Thanks!!
Sure, why not!
Could I use some of that Kahlua pork? I know it's smoked flavored, but I have lot left over from making it last Monday and though soup might be a nice way. What do you think?
This soup was sooooo good! Thank you for these wonderful recipes
Sure, it would still taste great!
can i eliminate the pork? Will it still taste good?
I added an 8oz. can of tomato sauce. I don't know what it is but just a little tomato sauce always seems to round out the soup. I put some tarragon in as well. Yummm!!!! thanks gina!
Kim – I usually use enough bullion to taste. I haven't made it in the crock pot, I don't know if it would be as good. Enjoy and thanks for sharing!
Had my husband go out and get an airplane sized bottle so we will do it the right way, we do not want to loose a little something something. I also wanted to know of it is one cube bouillon per cup of water? Have you ever made this in the crock pot? We are excited to try this as well, we loved the Shrimp and coconut soup and the cauliflower fritters, YUM! I have told all my friends and family about you!
Kim
It will still be good, but the alcohol gives it a little extra something special. Let me know how you like it without!
Will it loose any of the flavor if we omit the alcohol? Looks like I have everything I need but that. Excited to try it, thanks bunches!
It's chicken bullion, you can use another brand if you don't have Knorr, like Maggi or whatever you usually use.
what is knorr chicken bullion looks yum want to make it tomorrow
I made this last week and it was so yummy!
This soup is fabulous! I added a few parsnips that give it a very nice flavor and a few red potatoes and some green peas for color. Of course you have to recalculate points for WW, but it is wonderfully filling because it is so full of vegetables!
Dear Gina,
Great soup! I really looks so tasty and so healty! Mmmm, thanks for posting this recipe!
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Soup looks delicious. Nice click tooo 🙂
This is a big bowl. I figured the points for the entire recipe, then divided it by 8. If you cut the pork in half and the chicken in smaller pieces, serve 3 oz pork, about 2 oz chicken, 8 oz of broth and a whole lot of veggies!
Sorry to be dense but can you tell me how many cups a serving is? Looks like 1 3/4 cups…. if I'm calculating correctly…. with out having to remove the meat and weigh it. This recipe looks YUMMY!
What is a serving of this dish and how do you figure how much meat would be a serving?
I find warming soups are great comfort foods for me and I make them with just vegetables and blend them with some veggie stock and spices and they are very low in calories and taste great!
This was actually pork rib loin, any lean pork will work fine. You can use cognac instead of brandy or just eliminate it if you wish.
What could I use instead of Brandy?
i used red wine and it was delicious
Oh my gosh this looks sooooo good. Thank you for sharing Gina.
This soup likes delicious. The pork though does not look like the loin. In fact it looks wonderful. More the cut that has more flavor. When you say loin do you mean those long “tubes” of pork that come in kryovac? Anyway, I am going to make this tonight.