This Low Calorie Cabbage Soup is both filling and tasty. At under 100 calories per serving you can understand why it is such a popular recipe for people keeping to a low calorie diet.
It's easy to make and can be stored in the fridge for up to three days. It is also freezer friendly, making it an ideal recipe for those of you who like to batch cook.
Packed full of veggies, it is the perfect soup for those days that you want to save up calories for later on in the day. Tuck into a bowl at lunch and it will keep you satisfied till dinner.
Anyone here ever done the cabbage soup diet?
It's thought to have been created back in the 1950's although some say it was even before then! Whenever it was that it was created it has had many, many reincarnations over the years - the 'Stewardess Diet', the 'Fat Burning Diet' and my favourite the 'Dolly Parton Diet'!
All of these diets had cabbage soup front and centre of the eating plan with limited other foods on offer.
This recipe for cabbage soup differs from a lot of those early cabbage soup recipes! It's TASTY and full of flavour & fresh! Some of the older recipes were akin to drinking boiled cabbage water!
I tend to use a salty beef stock for the base of this soup but feel free to swap that out for a vegetable stock if you prefer!
The addition of a little tomato paste and a sprig of thyme gives the soup a depth of flavour that you don't get from the stock alone.
Calories in Cabbage Soup
This recipe for cabbage soup works out at 97 calories per serving, most of the calories coming from the vegetables.
Which stock should I use?
I use a beef bouillon cube when I make this recipe but you could use a vegetable bouillon cube or even a chicken one if you'd prefer.
If you use a fresh stock from the supermarket check the nutritional information before using to make sure it doesn't change the overall calorie count for this recipe.
The bouillon cube that I used was 8 calories, some store brought stocks can be around to 40 calories per cup.
Storage
Fridge:
This soup keeps well in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Freezer:
The cabbage soup is easy to freeze. Make sure it is cold before portioning up into serving sizes of your choice!
When you want a portion, just remove from the freezer, allow it to defrost, reheat and serve!
Low Calorie Cabbage Soup
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
- 2 small onions diced
- 4 medium carrots diced
- 3 sticks celery diced
- 1 small red bell pepper diced
- 1 small yellow bell pepper diced
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 1 medium cabbage shredded
- 1 stock cube / bouillon cube made up with 3 cups / 700ml boiled water
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste / puree
- 1.5 cups green beans (100g) sliced
- 1 - 2 pinches salt to taste
- 1 - 2 pinches pepper to taste
- 1 sprig fresh thyme optional
Instructions
- Place the oil in the bottom of a heavy bottomed saucepan / dutch oven. Warm over a medium heat.
- Add the diced onions, carrots, celery and peppers and saute for 5 - 6 minutes until they have started to soften. If you find that the vegetables start to stick to the bottom of the pan add a couple of tablespoons of water to loosen and continue to stir.
- Add the garlic and the fresh thyme (if using) and saute for a further 1 - 2 minutes. Don't allow the garlic to burn!
- Stir in the tomato paste.
- Add the shredded cabbage and then pour in the stock and mix.
- Bring the mixture to a boil. Once it has started to boil you can reduce the temperature so that the mixture is simmering.
- Simmer gently for 8 - 10 minutes.
- Add the green beans and continue to gently simmer for a further 3 to 4 minutes.
- Remove from the heat.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
Nutrition
This recipe first appeared in Pointed Kitchen, as it is a wonderful soup for anyone following the Weight Watchers plan.
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