Cabbage & potato soup

A Scandinavian lunch for the galley that copes with rough seas, one pot, can be made ahead and frozen, needs no fridge, about 35 min hands-on.

  • Lunch
  • Scandinavian
  • ⏱ 35 min
  • 🌊 Sea tolerance 5/5
  • 🪨 Bare bones
  • vegan
  • vegetarian
  • pescatarian
  • kosher
  • halal

Ingredients

For 4 servings (one normal-appetite adult each). Per serving in brackets.

  • Green/white cabbage480 g (≈ 0.5 head) (120 g)
  • Potato600 g (≈ 3 potatos) (150 g (≈ 0.5 potato))
  • Onion (brown/yellow)200 g (≈ 2 onions) (50 g (≈ 0.5 onion))
  • Carrot200 g (≈ 3.5 carrots) (50 g (≈ 1 carrot))
  • Vegetable stock cubes16 g (4 g)
  • Sunflower / vegetable oil24 g (6 g)

Method

  1. Soften onion and carrot in oil.
  2. Add diced potato, shredded cabbage, stock cube and water; simmer 20 minutes.
  3. Mash a little to thicken.

In the galley

  • Copes with a seaway — 5/5 for sea tolerance.
  • Stow the main ingredients in dry stores — nothing here needs a fridge.
  • Make ahead: cook in port and freeze in portions.
  • One pot — less to secure, less washing-up with fresh water.
  • Contains: Celery, Gluten — always check the labels of what you buy.

Per serving

🪶 Light

kcal
257
protein
6 g
fat
7 g
carbs
45 g
sugar
10 g
fibre
8 g

From USDA FoodData Central, raw weights — a planning guide, not a label; a few values use a close stand-in.

Nutrition per serving: USDA FoodData Central — SR Legacy (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service), weighted by each ingredient's grams — a planning guide, not a label. Quantities follow standard portion sizes; this recipe hasn't been tested in a real galley yet. How we make recipes

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