A Super-Affordable Cabbage Soup Recipe

This cabbage soup recipe (The Simple Veganista) is not the kind that you’d find on a health farm! It’s a big tasty and nutritious stew, using one of our most nutritious and readily-available affordable veggies.

Check medication before eating cabbage (due to vitamin K interactions). Read more on food safety for people and pets (leeks, onion and garlic are unsafe near animal friends).

Just bin allium scraps (leeks, onion, garlic, chives, shallots), as acids could harm compost creatures (same for citrus/tomato/rhubarb).

Cabbage is one of England’s most affordable crops, that is readily available and packed with nutrition. It’s eaten widely worldwide. It’s the national food of Russia, and in the east, it’s served as spicy kimchi (avoid fermented foods for pregnancy/nursing or weak immunity).

This follows the basic ‘soup’ recipe. Just fry up the veggies then add stock and herbs, then boil and blend. If you make a lot of homemade soup, it’s worth investing in a good stick blender, to save the faff of washing blenders all the time. It’s UK law that whoever sells it to you, has to take your old appliance back for recycling.

You could also use Souper Cubes. Sold in Lakeland, these are like giant silicone ice-cube trays. Just pour in cooled leftovers and freeze. Then when you want soup, just pop a portion out and thaw overnight in the fridge, before cooking up to a safe temperature. That way, you can make bigger batches, even if you are only cooking for one or two, with no food waste.

Chopped Cabbage Skillet Meal

If you’re after something even more hearty, try this chopped cabbage skillet meal (The First Mess). The cabbage is roasted in spices and combined lentils, rice, fine-ground walnuts and a tangy tomato sauce, roasted on the stove, and ready in an hour.

A Creamy Cabbage Curry Recipe 

Or go fusion food, with this amazing Cabbage Curry (Rainbow Plant Life). Creamy due to coconut milk and almond butter, it also contains protein-rich chickpeas.