Hello, again! Last week for Taste Testing Tuesday we talked about ways to try eating cabbage. For this week, I wanted to share a recipe with you that I’ve eaten ever since I was a little girl. It’s original name was a bit off putting, so we will simply call it Sausage and Cabbage Soup. Now that the weather has turned colder again, it’s a great time to try some hot soup to warm your family up! Let’s start with the cabbage. Cut up about half of a large head of cabbage into small to medium sized pieces.
Place half of the cut-up cabbage into the bottom of a crockpot.
You will need about 1 pound of your favorite ground sausage. You can use rope sausage too and just remove the casing. You can use whichever level of spiciness in your sausage as your family likes.
Peel around 6 or 7 nice sized white potatoes. I used a few more than that because some of our potatoes were pretty small.
Chop the potatoes into small pieces.
Layer half of the cut up potatoes on top of the layer of cabbage.
Break half of the uncooked sausage into small pieces on top of the potato layer.
Make a second layer of each thing…cabbage, potatoes and sausage pieces. Now my crockpot is full.
Add salt and pepper or other spices to suit your family’s tastes. Pour water over all until the water comes up about halfway in the crockpot. Cook on high 4-5 hours. Stir once or twice while it’s cooking. When the cooking time is done, you will have a warm hearty soup! The ingredients will cook down and will look like less than you started with.
Each person can add more salt or pepper or other spices to their individual bowl of soup. I hope you will make this soup and your family will give it a taste test! 🙂
The Kids Niche 