Sweet and Sour Beef Cabbage Soup

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vickiann
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Sweet and Sour Beef Cabbage Soup

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Sweet and Sour Beef Cabbage Soup

Active Time:  30 Minutes
Total Time:  30 Minutes
Yield:  6 servings, about 1 3/4 cups each

This wholesome sweet-and-sour soup combines beef, caraway seeds, sweet paprika and cabbage—ingredients that star in a number of German dishes. 

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 pound  lean (90% or leaner) ground beef
1-1/2 teaspoons caraway seeds
1 teaspoon dried thyme
2-1/2 cups frozen bell pepper and onion mix, thawed, chopped
1 medium Golden Delicious or other sweet-tart cooking apple, unpeeled, diced
6 cups  reduced-sodium beef broth
1 15-ounce can crushed or diced tomatoes
1-1/2 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon paprika, preferably Hungarian sweet
3 cups coarsely chopped Savoy or green cabbage
1-2 tablespoons cider vinegar
1/4 teaspoon salt
Freshly ground pepper to taste

Heat oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat. Add beef, caraway seeds and thyme and cook, stirring and breaking up the beef with a spoon, until it is mostly browned, about 4 minutes. Stir in pepper-onion mix and apple; cook, stirring, for 2 to 3 minutes more.
Stir in broth, tomatoes, honey and paprika and adjust the heat so the mixture boils gently. Cook for 8 to 10 minutes to blend the flavors. Stir in cabbage and cook just until barely tender, 3 to 4 minutes more. Season with vinegar to taste, salt and pepper.

Recipe reprinted by permission of © EatingWell Magazine. All rights reserved.
Date Added: 12/01/2009
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VickiAnn,
Thanks for the recipe. Sounds good.
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This recipe will most certainly make it into my LDL recipe book!
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Vickilynn,
I'm curious about your LDL recipe book. I have a blue folder that I put my LDL recipes into. I'm assuming that you copy all of your recipes into a blank journal or notebook. I'm not very organized, so any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks,
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Tina,

When I see a recipe on here that looks good, I add it to my "bookmarks" on this website. I also cut and paste it into a word document and save it on my computer. Sometimes I print out the recipe and slip it into a sheet protector and put it in a notebook. When I get ready to make the recipe, I just pull it out of the notebook. Sheet protector keeps it from getting so messy as I cook.

Hope this helps,
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Ollie- That's pretty much the way I do it.  I have a lot of recipes printed out and in sheet protectors in a notebook, however, I have many more bookmarked that I haven't even tried.  Like I said a while back, I probably won't live long enough to try them all.  Especially since our creative members are developing and sharing new recipes so often!  Pam
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Same here Tina, have some bookmarked, saved in a LDL Recipe file on my computer, and some printed out in sheet protectors.
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Tina,

I have a 1-inch, 3-ring binder with labeled index tabs -- breakfast, main dishes, soups, salads, helpful hints, etc. which is always within my reach in my kitchen. When a new recipe is posted and if I think it is worth trying out I immediately print it and add it to the labled "new recipes" section of my binder. I try to cook one new recipe at least once every two weeks and if I really love it and it passes my husband's taste test, I move it to whichever section it references after placing it into a sheet protector. If it is not a keeper, I toss it away.

Another tip... Before I go grocery shopping I go through my recipe binder, pick out 3-4 meals to make, and then add to my grocery list those items that I don't have in the house.  3-4 meals a weeks for the two of us (we are empty nesters) makes at least 7 meals because we always have leftovers.

P.S. I know just by reading the ingredients for vickiann's cabbage soup that it will be a keeper.
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VickiLynn,
Wise words. I like the binder idea with the tabs. Thanks!
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