This Cabbage Meatball Soup is a nourishing one-pot meal featuring tender meatballs and cabbage cooked together in a light, flavorful tomato-based broth.
This is a wonderful choice when you want a healthy dinner that comes together easily from scratch without any heavy fats or dairy in one pot. Because it is completely lactose-free and made without onion or garlic, it stays gentle on the stomach while offering plenty of flavor.
You can easily prepare a big batch of this soup for your weekly meal prep, keeping it ready in the fridge or freezer for busy days. It is a great meal option for cold weather.
Why You Will Love This Recipe
- Special Diets: allium free, no onion no garlic, lactose free
- One Pot Wonder: made entirely in a single pot for effortless cooking and quick cleanup
- Meal Prep Friendly: low in fat and easy to make ahead for nutritious lunches or dinners all week long
Developed & Checked by GI Nurse Dora S. Zachmann
Table of contents
Ingredients that are needed for Cabbage Meatball Soup without onion without garlic
- Ground meat: you can use any type of ground meat. Beef, pork (NOT ITALIAN SAUSAGE), chicken, turkey… Use your favorite type of ground meat
- Uncooked rice: it will give carbs to the meal, it will make meatballs softer, and give flavor to the meatball
- Cabbage: a vegetable that will give nutrition, and taste to the meal. It will make it a bit sweetish, and give a delicious tone to the meal
- Tomato paste: for delicious tomato taste and color
- Parsley flakes: it will provide a slight peppery taste to the meatballs, and enrich the taste of it
- Sugar: for enhancing the flavor
- All-purpose flour
- Water
- Salt: for enchanting the flavor
- Pepper: according to your preference. If you can’t eat pepper you can omit it. This meal will be equally delicious if you skip on pepper
- Cooking oil
Equipment that are needed
- Big bowl
- Pot
- Cheese grater
- Wooden spoon
- Cutting board
- Chef’s knife
How to store Cabbage Meatball Soup?
You can store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
You can freeze this meal for up to 3 months.
Garnish for this meal
Garnish can elevate how the food looks, and it can make it look more appetizing. However, garnish can be a spot where alliums are hiding. In this recipe, I garnished my plate with freshly chopped parsley.
Cabbage Meatball Soup
Ingredients
Meatball
- 1 ½ lb ground meat 700g
- ½ cup uncooked rice 80g
- 1½ teaspoons parsley flakes
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
Cabbage
- 4 cups shredded cabbage 400g
Tomato sauce
- cooking oil - enough to cover the bottom of your pot
- 1 tablespoon flour
- ⅓ cup tomato paste 80ml
- 11 cups water 2.5l
- salt to taste
- sugar to taste (optional)
Instructions
Meatball
- Mix ground meat with rice, parsley flakes, salt, and pepper. Shape it into balls. It should be a bit smaller than a tennis ball.
Cabbage
- Shred the cabbage on a cheese grater.
Tomato Sauce
- Add the oil to a pot and heat over medium-low heat. Add shredded cabbage and a pinch of salt. Salute it all together for a few minutes (the cabbage should be soft).
- Add flour to the cabbage and saute with constant stirring for a minute. Flour needs to blend in with the cabbage, and not have any lumps.
- Add tomato paste, and saute with constant stirring until the tomato paste is combined with cabbage.
- Add shaped meatballs, water, and salt. Simmer for 50 minutes, and gently stir occasionally.
- In the end, add a bit of sugar to increase the sweetness of the cabbage and tomato.
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