Cabbage Roll Soup

Ingredients

• 1 lb, Ground Beef  (more if you like it meaty)
• 4  cups cabbage    (cut into pieces that will fit on a spoon) I usually put more cabbage when I make it. I like a thick soup. 
• I chopped onion
• 3 cloves  minced garlic
• 1/2  cup water
• 1/2 TSP Salt
• 1 TSP Oregano
• 1/2 TSP Basil
• l 24 ounce can of tomato sauce
• 2   14.5 ounce cans of diced tomatoes
• 1/2  of a cup of rice

Directions

Brown ground beef, onion, garlic and salt in a skillet.  (I always make soup in a crockpot.)Put the meat mixture in the crockpot.

Add cabbage, oregano, basil, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes and water.  Stir.  It will be very thick but as it cooks it will get “soupier”.

If you use a crockpot cook for 4-5 hours on high …. until cabbage is cooked.

In the last 1/2 hour add  1/2  cup of white rice and finish cooking until rice is cooked.

You may want to add a little extra rice  if you like the soup thicker.