Cabbage Soup Diet Recipe

The three main recipes of cabbage soup diet

According to enthusiasts, the cabbage soup diet recipe is the foundation of the success of the diet. The soup supposedly fights hunger and detoxifies your body while allowing you to go on an extremely low calorie diet. And though the 7 day eating plan of the cabbage soup diet has undergone some modification over the years to take care of some major points of criticism, the recipe itself has been with little changes.

Early versions of the cabbage soup diet recipe were pretty bland in taste. This has motivated subtle changes to the recipe to increase palatability without compromising its supposed appetite suppressing quality. This has seen the inclusion of some seasonings previously not included as well as some vegetables like carrots that you may find in some recipes and not others.

Below we look at the most popular recipes.

Cabbage Soup Diet Recipe – The Original

This version of the recipe is said to have been the original version. 

These particular ingredients were published in the National Enquire magazine in the mid nineteen nineties. 

Note the absence of carrots and water; and note the use of V8 vegetable juice, lemon juice and balsamic vinegar. 

Also note in this recipe, a full head of cabbage is used. 

This recipe provides 20 servings. 

• 1 head cabbage, chopped
• 6 onions, sliced or chopped
• 2 green bell peppers, chopped
• 1 bunch celery, chopped
• 1 bunch shallots or 1 bunch green onion, sliced
• 2 chicken bouillon cubes
• 1 (1 1/4 ounce) envelope onion soup
• 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar (optional)
• 48 ounces V8 vegetable juice
• 2 (28 ounce) cans chopped tomatoes
• 1 lemon (juice)
• pepper
• 6 garlic cloves, crushed
  

Unlike other recipes that sautés some vegetable, this “original version” has you dicing and throwing everything into a large stock pot to boil. Season with salt, pepper, curry, garlic powder, parsley, or any seasoning that is preferred. Allow it to simmer for about an hour. The broth can be refrigerated and warmed as needed.

Weight Watchers Recipe Version

Whether a cabbage soup recipe has been endorsed by Weight Watchers is unclear. But there are different variations of it out there. This particular Weight Watchers cabbage soup recipe removes the V8 juice and replaces it with a can of Weight Watchers chicken soup. It also adds to the mix carrots, leeks, spinach and even mushrooms.

• 1 large dark green cabbage
• 1 head of celery
• 2 carrots
• 1 red, green and yellow pepper
• 3 big leeks
• 2 lbs of mushrooms
• 3 onions
• Small bag of spinach
• Big bag of rocket leaves
• Big bag of watercress
• 1 can Weight Watchers chicken soup

In Weight Watchers this is supposedly considered a 0 point soup. So you can eat all that you want and not worry about it. It helps to make you feel full and helps you take weigh off.

Water Recipe Version

This version makes use of 6 to 8 cups to make the broth instead of the Weigh Watchers chicken soup or V8 juice in the original version.

• Half a head of green cabbage
• 1 bunch of celery
• 1 large green pepper
• 3 large onions
• 1 can diced tomatoes
• 1 pack onion soup mix
• 3 vegetable bouillon cubes
• 8-12 cups of water
• For seasoning, add salt, pepper, parsley, garlic powder, soy sauce to taste as options.

Chop all vegetables into bit size pieces. Add everything to a pot of water just covering the vegetables. Bring water to boil. Cover and simmer for about 15 minutes or until vegetables are soft.

An optional way to prepare any of the recipes is to cut all the vegetables into small pieces. Saute the onion in the olive oil for two minutes, then add the celery and peppers (if your recipe of choice has them) and saute for 4 minutes more. Then cover with the water or V-8 juice or Weight Watchers soup. If you have bouillons add them now. Also add the tomatoes. 

Bring the whole mixture to a boil. Note that cabbage is not included in this mixture. Reduce the heat to a simmer and continue cooking until the vegetables are tender. This may take as much as an hour depending on the ingredients, especially if you have large pieces of celery.

Core the cabbage by taking out the stem and chop it into small pieces. Now add to the already cooked vegetables and cook for another 10 minutes. By adding the cabbage towards the end of the cooking time, you are able to preserve some of its nutrients.  

And though this recipe may help you lose some weight, there is little if any guarantee you will keep it off. To lose weight, belly fat to be more specific you need to manage two things, just two. These two are…

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