Old-Fashioned Cabbage Casserole is a southern favorite with a creamy cabbage filling topped with buttery cracker crumbs. This creamy, cheesy casserole is comfort food at its best.
Cabbage is one of my favorite vegetables to cook with. It’s inexpensive and available year round. Scroll down to find more cabbage recipes.
This is a recipe that’s been popular for years. You can find a recipe for Cabbage Casserole in just about every southern church or community cookbook.
How To Make Old-Fashioned Cabbage Casserole
First, coarsely chop a small head of green cabbage. You don’t need to chop it too small, just into pieces that are small enough to eat easily and remember that it will shrink some as it cooks.
Then cook the cabbage along with some sliced sweet onion in butter. There’s something magical about cabbage and butter together. You just need to cook it part way at this point. It will cook more in the oven. Season with salt and pepper.
Transfer the cabbage mixture to a casserole dish.
Mix together a can of condensed Cream of Chicken soup and 1/3 cup of mayonnaise and spread over the cabbage. Cream of Mushroom or Cream of Celery could be used instead. Do not add anything except the mayonnaise to the soup (Don’t follow the directions on the can for making the soup.)
Sprinkle a mixture of crushed Ritz crackers, melted butter, and shredded cheddar cheese on top and bake until golden and buttery. I think this will become one of your favorite casseroles!
More Cabbage Recipes
- Southern Cabbage
- Cabbage and Noodles
- Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
- Cabbage Soup with Smoked Sausage
- Cabbage and Noodles
Watch the short video below to see how easy this recipe is to make.
Old-Fashioned Cabbage Casserole
Ingredients
- 1 small head green cabbage
- 1 medium Vidalia onion, chopped
- 8 tablespoons butter
- salt and pepper
- 1 (10-ounce) can condensed cream of chicken or cream of mushroom soup
- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
Topping
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
- 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 1 sleeve Ritz crackers (about 30), coarsely crushed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a 2-quart casserole dish.
- Coarsely chop the cabbage. Melt butter in a large nonstick pan. Add cabbage and onion and cook 8 to 10 minutes, stirring frequently, or until it is partially cooked down. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Transfer cabbage mixture to prepared baking dish.
- In a small bowl, stir together soup and mayonnaise. Spread mixture over cabbage.
- In a bowl, stir together melted butter, cheese, and cracker crumbs. Sprinkle over casserole.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until topping is browned.
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This was a fantastic recipe! I made it this evening and my husband and I really enjoyed it! Thank you!
Great recipe. I did add hamburger at my family’s request
can you use ground sausage ? I saw some people used ground beef.
Great recipe! Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Very tasty! Made this a few years ago and was happy to have found the recipe again. Due to shopping restrictions during our COVID-19 crisis, I used Toppables crackers and Tex Mex cheese.
I made this and added some hamburger to it one of my favorite dishes now loved this
Made this today. I’m always looking for cabbage side dishes. It came out great! The only thing I changed was that I used the garden vegetable ritz crackers and I added a bit more black pepper. The only cabbage recipe my husband will eat is coleslaw or stuffed cabbage. He was reluctant to try this, but is smelled so good while baking he tried some. In fact he ate 2 big helpings. This one is a winner! Thank you.
1 SMALL CABBAGE= HOW MANY CUPS? MOST CABBAGE AT MY ST ORE ARE HUGE.
This is the absolute best cabbage casserole recipe. My family loves it, and I wouldn’t change even one ingredient. Thanks so much for the recipe!
This is an easy and delicious recipe. A altered it a little using bacon bits in the cabbage and onion, I used Cream of Mushroom soup with garlic and Bacon flavored Ritz crackers. Could not have been better. This will be a staple of mine!!
Bacon makes all the difference ham would also be good loved it
This was delicious! I made for Christmas lunch and everyone loved it.
Delicious!!! I will definitely make this again. I made it last night for a Christmas Party and everyone asked for the recipe.
This casserole is now our favorite
This was really delicious! I am not a cooked cabbage fan but cooking it first in butter gave it a lot of flavor. My family loved it. I used cream of mushroom and kept it low carb by using ground up pork rinds on the top!
It’s good but it’s watery. Should I have good it down until all liquid evaporated? I only used butter.
Made a 9×13 pan for a funeral lunch and it disappeared. Used fresh cabbage from the garden,s
so good
We love cabbage and I’m always looking for new ways to cook it so this sounds fantastic. My question is how prominent is the mayo taste? I’m not a fan of it
Can this be made in the crock pot?
It can but the cracker layer will get soggy instead of crispy.
I game across bc I was searching for a certain cabbage casserole crock pot recipe that I lost years ago. This I will try bc it sounds great, but does anyone have a recipe for a crock pot called cabbage casserole? I can recall some ingredients but not all. It had velvets, rotes, shredded cheese, packaged cabbage slaw, worshtershire, ground beef and ground sausage and I don’t recall what else but it was always a hit everywhere I took it.
Sounds delish, I’m going to try to substitute cream cheese for the soup and add pork skins for topping to see if I can make it low carb friendly..
Made it came out great. Thank you