How to cook vegetarian cabbage soup: popular recipes

Shchi is one of the most favorite dishes of traditional Russian cuisine. They are seasoned not only with cabbage, but also with nettles, sorrel, and all kinds of roots - the incredible number of recipes amazes the imagination. For those who do not consume meat and dairy products, this surprisingly tasty soup will come in handy. Vegetarian cabbage soup has a rich taste, rich aroma and extraordinary nutritional value.

They will be an excellent alternative to vegetarian borscht and will take their rightful place on your table. We have collected several delicious recipes that should definitely “migrate” to your cookbook. Start cooking with us.

Vegetarian cabbage soup with sorrel or green borscht

Ovo-vegetarianism

We will need:

• 5 eggs
• Large bunch: parsley, dill, green onion, cilantro and sorrel
• 1 onion
• 1 medium carrot

Let's start cooking:

1. The first step is to peel and chop the onion and carrots
2. Fry until the onions and carrots are nicely browned
3. Next, you need to place a container of water on the stove and bring it to a boil.
4. Peel the potatoes and cut them. Throw into boiling water. We send fried vegetables there too.
5. Chop all the greens and pour into the same saucepan. Cut the pre-boiled eggs into 6 pieces and put them in the soup.

The soup is ready when the potatoes break easily. Sour cream is served at the table with cabbage soup.

Step-by-step recipe for vegetarian cabbage soup

To prepare vegetarian cabbage soup from fresh cabbage, you will need the following products:

• 500 g fresh white cabbage;
• 200 g zucchini;
• 400 g potatoes;
• 2 medium-sized tomatoes;
• 200 g carrots;
• 150 g onions;
• salt, pepper, garlic, herbs, bay leaves to taste.

Read: Vegetarian Caesar Salad

Steps for cooking cabbage soup:

• thoroughly wash and peel all vegetables;
• cut cabbage, potatoes, zucchini, carrots and onions into strips;
• Pour 2 liters of water into the pan, place the pan on medium heat;
• pour chopped potatoes and 2 whole tomatoes into boiling water;
• While the potatoes are boiling, fry carrots and onions in vegetable oil;
• From the boiling broth with potatoes, remove the tomatoes, the skins of which have already begun to separate. Leave the tomatoes to cool;
• add fresh cabbage to the broth;
• Peel the cooled tomatoes, chop them and add them to the frying with the onions and carrots. Simmer the resulting vegetable mixture under a closed lid for 10 minutes;
• add chopped zucchini to the boiling broth with potatoes and cabbage;
• after 10 minutes, pour the roast into the cabbage soup;
• after 7 minutes of boiling, add chopped garlic and herbs, pepper and salt to taste;
• Boil the soup for 3 minutes.

Read: How to replace eggs for a vegetarian

The dish is ready! Bon appetit!

Shchi with sauerkraut

Another cabbage soup, the simplest to prepare.

You will need for cooking:

• 200 grams of fermented or salted cabbage
• 1 onion
• 3 potatoes
• fresh champignons or from a 200g jar
• Various greens

Let's get started:

• Place 3 liters of water on the stove to boil.
• Chop the onion and grate the carrot. Fry thoroughly.
• Peel the potatoes and cut them.
• Shred the salted cabbage.
• Cutting mushrooms
• When the water begins to boil, add potatoes, fried vegetables, mushrooms and cabbage. Boil for 15 minutes.
• Chop all the greens finely and throw them into the cabbage soup. Remove from heat. All is ready.

I would like to add that for bean lovers, you can add ready-made, canned beans to this soup . White or red – it doesn’t matter. This way the dish will be more interesting, taste brighter and more satisfying.

For the whole family

If not everyone in your family likes vegetarian cabbage soup, then the dish can be slightly modified. Remember that first courses in good restaurants are a kind of aperitif, and therefore they do not necessarily have to be rich and thick. Make a light soup with aromatic broth and pleasant taste. For a large company you will need more cabbage and other vegetables. There is no need to cook meat or poultry for broth. The taste will be provided by fresh vegetables, the aroma of which will combine into one. Don't forget that the soup should be bright to delight your family. Add spices to taste. Remember to add the bay leaf. You can make small concessions and add a bouillon cube to the broth. This way you will add a little more calories to the soup, but the taste will be richer.

Recipe for okroshka with kefir

For lacto-vegetarians.

To prepare you will need:

• 2 boiled potatoes
• 1 boiled carrot
• Dill, parsley
• Canned peas
• 200 grams of sour cream
• 1 pack of kefir
• radish

Let's get started:

1. Cooking potatoes and carrots
2. Cut potatoes, radishes and carrots into small cubes.
3. Pour all the kefir into a large container, along with all the sour cream. Mix well.
4. Chop all the greens and place them together with vegetables and peas in the sour cream mixture. Mix and place in the refrigerator.

This okroshka is perfect for lunch in hot weather and also leaves you feeling light.

Refreshing okroshka with kvass

For ovo-vegetarians.

This dish can also be different; okroshka with kvass is one of the most popular.

We will need:

• 4 boiled eggs
• Radishes 7-10, if small;
• 2 fresh cucumbers
• 200 grams of sour cream
• 1 liter of kvass
• Parsley, dill and green onions.

Let's get started:

• Mix kvass and sour cream thoroughly.
• Cut cucumbers, eggs and radishes into pieces.
• We chop all the green stuff.
• Mix everything, everything, everything in a container with kvass. Cool. Let's enjoy it.

Famous soup “Kharcho”

Yes Yes. This dish has a meat-free option!

Products for cooking:

• 100 grams of walnuts
• 100 grams of rice
• 2 onions
• 3 cloves garlic
• 2 ripe tomatoes
• 1 spoon coriander seeds
• Green cilantro and parsley
• peppercorns
• horseradish root

Let's start cooking:

1. Chop or grind nuts, 1 onion, 2 cloves of garlic and pepper. Place everything together in a pan with hot oil. Fry for 7-8 minutes.
2. The tomatoes must be beaten to a mushy consistency. Pour into nut mixture.
3. At this time, put 3 liters of water on the fire. Add rice and boil with salt and bay leaf. You can add peppercorns, 1 piece of garlic, a small whole onion, horseradish root and a 3 cm piece of carrot.
4. When the rice is almost ready, pour the entire mixture into the pan.
5. Leave on the stove for 5 minutes.
6. Chop the greens or beat them in a blender and add them to the soup. Ready.

Nuances of choosing products

Vegetarian cabbage soup is prepared only from high-quality products. When selecting and using components, use the following guidelines:

• Cabbage. The vegetable should have its own pleasant taste, because it is the main component in the soup. Slicing is also important. Some people prefer shredding into thin and long strips, while others cut the cabbage into cubes. Choose an option to suit your taste, and then the dish will give you maximum pleasure.
• Tomato paste. Ketchup will not work in this case. What you need is tomato paste. You can even make your own puree from fresh vegetables, it will be even tastier.
• Vinegar. In this case, wine or apple will do. The usual 6% or 9% is not worth taking, as it has an unpleasant chemical taste.
• Seasonings. You can add any spices to the dish. Khmeli-suneli is ideal for cabbage soup. Original taste guaranteed.

Helpful advice. Mandatory “fragrant” components are bay leaf and black peppercorns. This is quite enough for a great taste.

Can't imagine your life without delicious hot cabbage soup? Try preparing a vegetarian version of the famous Russian dish. This soup will create a real sensation among guests and household members on an everyday and even holiday table, especially when combined with delicious vegan pastries.

Cheese thick soup

Ingredients for soup:

• 300 grams of processed cheese
• 1 pack of milk
• 2-3 potato tubers
• Fresh dill and parsley

Let's start cooking:

1. First, boil the tubers.
2. Place the milk on the stove and bring to a boil.
3. Add all the cheese a little at a time into the milk. You can freeze it. and then grate it.
4. Place the finished potatoes into a blender bowl. All the greenery is there. Whisk.
5. Pour milk and cheese into the bowl a little at a time. Bring until smooth. All!

This soup will be very pleasant in combination with breadcrumbs.

Why do vegetarians appear?

Today, every person is free to choose which nutrition system to follow. Why then do many choose the difficult path of giving up animal products? Is it possible to live a full life without meat, fish and milk? Can! And it’s also very tasty to eat. A vegetarian diet often turns out to be more nutritious, original and varied than that of a meat eater. Only so-called vegans, who eat exclusively plant foods, have strict dietary restrictions. Lacto-vegetarians allow themselves dairy products, and lacto-ovo-vegetarians easily eat eggs. And there are also fruitarians who, accordingly, focus on fruits. And macrobiotics, who primarily eat grain products. But vegetarian cabbage soup is beneficial and allowed for all of them.

Soup with cheese and mushrooms

There are a lot of options for cheese soups. Here's another one of them:

Products:

• 500 grams of champignons
• butter 3 teaspoons
• Bulb
• 500 grams of cream cheese
• 2 onions
• 2 carrots
• 100 grams of hard cheese
• Dill

Let's get started:

1. The first step is to fry the onions and carrots, after chopping them.
2. Fry mushrooms in butter
3. Bring one and a half liters of water to a boil. Add fried mushrooms with vegetables and melted cheese to the bubbling liquid.
4. Send the chopped dill there too. To serve, sprinkle with grated hard cheese.

Rich and flavorful soup is ready!

Soup with funchose (rice noodles)

Products:

• 100 grams rice noodles
• 1 onion
• 1 carrot
• broccoli
• 1 ripe tomato
• 5 cloves garlic
• Soy sauce

The recipe is quite simple:

1. Chop all the vegetables. Grate the carrots. Everything needs to be fried. Pour a couple of tablespoons of soy sauce into the mixture.
2. You can fry it in a saucepan. When everything is sufficiently fried, pour in 600-800 ml of water.
3. We put funchose there. Boil for no more than 4-5 minutes.

If desired, rice can be replaced with regular noodles or pasta.

With love about cabbage soup

The main traditional dish of Russian cuisine is, of course, cabbage soup. With their unique aroma and dozens of cooking recipes. Traditional and cooked in poultry or meat broth. Sometimes - on fish. Initially, cabbage soup was cooked in clay pots, but today they have switched to multicookers or a regular stove. Vegetarian cabbage soup also tastes good and is very aromatic, but it compares favorably with regular cabbage soup if you focus on the cooking time and the simplicity of the required ingredients. The low calorie content of the dish makes it indispensable for the diet menu. The entire cooking process will take no more than a quarter of an hour.

Coconut soup

Surely, this soup will seem unusual to many. If anyone has heard of it, only a few have tried it.

For cooking you will need:

• 1 onion
• 1 spoon crushed ginger root
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 200 grams of pumpkin
• 100 grams of lentils
• 150 ml coconut milk
• 1 spoon of tomato paste
• 1 spoon curry seasoning
• Green cilantro
• Pinch of nutmeg

Cooking:

1. Simmer the chopped onion, grated ginger and garlic in a frying pan.
2. Cut the pumpkin. Mix it with cilantro and lentils. Pour in water mixed with coconut milk.
3. There's also tomato paste.
4. Put all the seasonings, nutmeg and the contents of the pan there.
5. Boil for 3 minutes. Ready.

The dish turns out very flavorful!

Dal simplified

The ingredients include mung bean. It needs to be soaked before cooking, possibly overnight.

To prepare you will need:

• 100 grams mung bean
• Tomatoes 2 pcs
• Spoon grated ginger
• Jeera and mustard seeds
• Asafoetida
• Curry
• Cilantro
• Turmeric
• Coriander

Cooking:

• The beans need to be soaked overnight. They will swell a little. Cook until they turn into porridge.
• Chop the cilantro and mix with ginger.
• Cutting tomatoes into cubes
• Next you need to fry all the seeds. When they begin to crackle a little, add ginger with cilantro, turmeric, curry, and asafoetida. Simmer for a couple of minutes.
• Add the contents of the frying pan to the beans, along with the tomatoes, and hold for a minute. The dal is ready to serve. You can sprinkle with lemon juice.

Separately, I would like to say about salt and pepper : of course, they can be added to all the dishes described above. But excessive consumption of sodium chloride (the same salt) does not have the best effect on the body. Therefore, it is better to minimize its use. Ayurveda is against salt and sugar, prescribing the consumption of natural flavors such as fruits, vegetables, berries, herbs, seeds and spices.

You might also be interested in:

• potato vegetarian soups;
• chickpea soups.

Regardless of the recipe, the main thing is that everything is prepared with love and soul! Enjoy your meal!