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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Very good. Made this yesterday and enjoyed it. I have never made anything like it before, even though I make make many dishes containing cabbage. This will definitely be in my rotation.
I can’t help but wonder if I can add ham and black eyed peas and make a whole New Years casserole…thoughts?
Agree! I make this with a homemade white sauce and no mayonnaise, and lots of cream cheese and sour cream (egg allergy). In fact I make double white sauce and make River Road Spinach Madeleine as well. This time I added dried cranberries and apple chunks to the cabbage casserole. We frequently make this and have it a few days in a row, so I’m sure you can make ahead.
That sounds fabulous!
can this be made ahead?
Delicious 😋
I made this for a church dinner and everyone loved it. Even got a request for the recipe because it was so delicious.
Gwin,
Where are tomatoes mentioned in inredients?
Can this receipe be made ahead of time, say 24 hours? If so, how?
Thanks
Absolutely wonderful. All family and friends love this casserole.
This was so good, I didn’t use cheese and it still was delicious.
My sister gave me a recipe almost like this one except she adds alittle more mayonnaise and more butter. Some on the casserole and some to put over the top. I love this. Thank you for sharing, now try my sisters . Jut too good
No need to partially cook cabbage first. Just put in a non stick casserole dish. Then just follow receipe above. Oven 350 for about 45 minutes.
We never cook ours forst,and alot of butter, even better
Excellent
I have pictures but can’t figure out how to get em on here.
Made this tonight,turned out wonderful. Definitely will be on my future meal list!
Made twice. Used cream of mushroom soup because hubby can’t have too much tomatoes. And it was absolutely delicious.
Tomatoes??? Calls for cream of chicken soup
This was too easy!
The Boss, who allows me to cook for her, loved it! Left me plenty of time to do the dishes and laundry!
I’ll make this again.
Thanks for the simple and great recipe!
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Let me know if you find one 😁
I recently made this recipe and it was a huge success !!!
Absolutely delicious!! A new favorite!
I just made this, it came out fantastic! I followed your recipe exactly, which I not the norm for me because I usually change a lot of things. I am serving it as a side dish with some baked breaded pork chops and mashed potatoes. I was pleasantly surprised when this came out really great, wasn’t really sure how it would taste. This recipe is a keeper! Thanks.
Wow! this recipe was so easy, and more importantly, the cabbage casserole will now be a big hit in our house. Did I mention how flavorful it was so delicious?
Thank you so much
Carla from Bermuda
This is my new favorite cabbage recipe. Oh my gosh.. it is soooo good!
Btw I used cream of mushroom.
Thank you for the easy to follow recipe cabbage casserole!