Chunky Beef, Cabbage and Tomato Soup (Instant Pot or Stove Top)
I love this cabbage soup recipe, made with ground beef, vegetables and tomatoes. It’s the perfect cold weather soup and makes enough for leftovers.
Ground beef, cabbage, vegetables and tomatoes, this is the perfect soup to clean out your fridge! And it’s super easy to make.
I grew up on homemade soups, in fact most dinners in my house growing up either started with soup, or soup was the main dish. My Mom usually threw whatever she had in the refrigerator and would whip up a new soup. I was a pretty picky eater, but I always loved when she made cabbage soup. This recipe reminds me of one of those soups she would whip up. Feel free to add any veggies you might need to use up. Crushed or diced tomatoes both work fine.
How To Make Beef Cabbage Soup:
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Chunky Beef, Cabbage and Tomato Soup (Instant Pot or Stove Top)
Ground beef, cabbage, vegetables and tomatoes, this is the perfect soup to clean out your fridge! And it’s super easy to make.
Ingredients:
- 1 lb 90% lean ground beef
- 1-1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 cup diced onion
- 1/2 cup diced celery
- 1/2 cup diced carrot
- 28 oz can diced or crushed tomatoes
- 5 cups chopped green cabbage
- 4 cups beef stock (canned* or homemade)
- 2 bay leaves
Directions:
Instant Pot:
- Assuming your electric pressure cooker has a saute option, or if using the Instant Pot, press the saute button and let the pressure cooker get very hot, when hot spray with oil, add the ground beef and salt and cook until browned breaking the meat up into small pieces as it cooks, 3 to 4 minutes.
- When browned, add the onion, celery and carrots and saute 4 to 5 minutes.
- Add the tomatoes, cabbage, beef stock and bay leaves, lock the lid cook high pressure 20 minutes.
- Let the steam release naturally. Remove bay leaves and serve. Makes 11 cups.
Stove top:
- Follow the same directions as above in a large pot or Dutch oven, cook covered low 40 minutes.
*check labels for gluten-free or Whole30 compliant.
Nutrition Information
Yield: 7 servings, Serving Size: 1 1/2 cups
- Amount Per Serving:
- Freestyle Points: 3
- Points +: 4
- Calories: 181 calories
- Total Fat: 6g
- Saturated Fat: 2.3g
- Cholesterol: 40mg
- Sodium: 592mg
- Carbohydrates: 14g
- Fiber: 2g
- Sugar: 4.5g
- Protein: 15.5g
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I just made this soup for what seems like the hundredth time! It is sooooo good!
This looks so good! Definitely making this. I think I’ll add another pound of beef, some potatoes, a can of corn, and maybe some peas or green beans. Yum!
Just made it, my family ate it all asits written. OMG, wouldn’t change a thing.
Second time making this recipe absolutely amazing!!! And only 3 points love love love.
If I made the recipe above but added Barley, would it be cooked in 20 minutes in a Instant Pot? I make a Hamburger soup that is similar. It doesn’t have cabbage and has everything listed above plus 8 Tbsp barley, 1 tsp Thyme, but only 3 cans beef broth and one can of condensed tomato soup.
did you end up adding barley?
So easy to make in the Instant Pot. This soup is so delicious but low calorie enough to have more! This soup will become a regular during the upcoming cold months. Thanks again for another great Instant Pot recipe!
I made the stove top version with ground turkey and vegetable broth. It’s SO GOOD!
Would that then be 0SP??
Just made this for lunches this week. So easy, and so much flavor! Love this recipe.
This was SOOO good!! This is definitely going in my winter soup rotation. Thank you!!
Love this recipe! I use tomato sauce instead of chunks of tomato, ground turkey and I add a can of black and white kidney beans for more protein. Delicious!
This is definitely one of my favorite soups! I use ground turkey and it’s delicious! Wondering if anyone has tried cooking this in the slow cooker? I always make a double batch and freeze it.
I added a can of kidney beans for more protein and some roughly chopped red potatoes! Perfect for a cold day and to have for lunch during the week!
Also I forgot to add that I added a few dashes of Worcestershire sauce to add a little more depth.
Just made this today! Yummm!! Definitely will be making this again!
Has anyone done this in the slow cooker? Should I cook the ground beef first or put it in the crockpot uncooked?
I would cook it and the onion first
How long in crockpot???
Delicious recipe, but if making stovetop, I felt I needed to add at least 1 1/2 cup of more water /beef stock.
This is the most amazing and easy recipe. I LOVE throwing this together when we have a busy day. It takes less than an hour and dinner is done and leftovers are even better
How well does it keep if frozen?
It reheats really well from frozen. I double or triple and freeze individual portions for easy lunches and dinners.
This soup was absolutely DELICIOUS! It tasted just like my grandma’s cabbage rolls she makes… I did mine on the stove top, let everything boil/simmer together for a good 25 minutes so the cabbage got tender. My husband doesn’t like soup what so ever, but he scarfed this down SO fast. I did add in a cup on white rice at the end, to make it more like a cabbage roll. I am so impressed. I also did not use celery, but did use celery salt for flavoring. Thank you!
I had bought a corned beef that was so salty I could not eat it. Thought I would dice it up and use it up in this recipe instead of the hamburger. Came out delicious.
Delicious! I used1.5lb of ground beef, and omitted the salt, since canned beef broth and tomatoes are so salty. I did mean to add a little Worcestershire as someone else recommended, but I forgot! I made it in my Instant Pot, but you could cook it just as fast- or faster- on top of the stove. I definitely will make this again! Thanks for the great recipe!
Mine is in the instant pot right now. Increases most of the ingredients except the meat…ground turkey. Do I totally need to let it naturally release or can I quick release after 10 or 15 min natural.
This was our first meal In our Insta Pot, and it was a winner! I followed the recipe exactly using garlic & olive oil flavored diced tomatoes. It was so good and easy. We will make this again!
I don’t have an instant pot . Can this be made on a stove top?
There are directions for the stove top at the bottom of the recipe. You basically follow the same directions and cook on low for 40 minutes.
I made it in my Pressure Cooker, it was as very easy and very delicious. Just don’t add the salt. It came out too salty so tomorrow when I reheat it I’ll put a raw potato in it and it will absorb the salt.
I loved the idea of this soup but I found it to be very bland. To me it was missing something. I ended up adding some tomato paste and a little bit of vinegar which helped some. I was a little disappointed.
Maybe you could fresh sauteed garlic to give it more flavor.
Has anyone thrown in spinach?
I made this for dinner on a cold winter evening with a slice of cornbread. I invited an elderly gentleman down the street to join us, and we ate from tv trays next to the fireplace. He has new friends, and I have a wonderful new way to love cabbage. Thanks Mac
Aww that’s awesome!
This is so dear!! Made me so happy.
We just made this for dinner… excellent. We served it over a small amount of shell macs…. even the Grandson ate it.
Curious about the point calculation. Is it 3 simply based on the beef? Because when I input the nutritional information it calculates 5 points. Thank you!!
The only accurate way to determine any recipe’s SmartPoints® value is to plug the ingredients into the recipe builder on the Weight Watchers website (Click on “My Foods,” select “Recipe,” and click “Create a recipe.”) which does not count fruits and vegetables in recipes in the calculations as they are now 0 points.
The SmartPoints® calculator isn’t meant for recipes and will often give you the wrong points (usually higher) because it’s counting the fruits and vegetables. So if you see a recipe with a SmartPoints® value that’s different from what the calculator tells you, now you know why.
We really enjoyed this soup it was rich and very flavorful. Simple to make use a crock pot because we had to go out for awhile worked wonderfully.
This was so good. Since I only had 1 can of diced tomatoes, I add a can of tomatoe soup. It still tasted really good. Thank you for this recipe!
So good, but I ked it just a little better with a splash of vinegar before serving!
I made this in the slow cooker and it came out great. I browned the ground beef then put all the ingredients in the slow cooker for 4 hours on high. I will definitely put this in my winter soup rotation.
Do you drain the grease after you brown the meat or leave it in the soup?
I did not drain the grease.
I drain it, but I think it can be done either way depending on your taste and calorie preference.
Question – says 592 mg of carbs? That can’t possibly be right can it? Sounds good but???
No I will fix!
3 WW points per cup?
Can I use frozen ground beef, and would it change the cooking time? So excited to try!
I made this soup for dinner tonight. It tastes so good !!! Great meal especially during the cold winter weather. Bonus, low calorie ????
Pretty good…basic, needs apple cider vinegar, worchestershire and a little bit of sweetener (brown sugar or something low/no carb for dieters.) Also this took at least 60-75 minutes; 20 minutes to cook and 20 more to natural release plus prep and sauteing. I also think turkey might be better than beef, I’ll try that next time.
This reminds me of my mother’s old fashioned cabbage soup. A little bit of brown sugar and vinegar makes it sweet and sour. My mother served hers with rice. Yum!
I only have purple cabbage in my fridge right now…. do you think that will work?
I didn’t have bay leaves so I added 2 teaspoons of Italian seasoning and 1/4 teaspoon of cumin. Added lots of flavor.
Made mine with 95% lean beef and counted the soup as 2 points for 1 1/2 cups. Delicious and even lower in points!
This soup is very good, Gina.. I added a couple potatoes for texture. Thanks.
Made this soup during a Polar vortex and it was fabulous. I can’t believe how easy, low fat, and delicious it was. Really hit the spot!