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Recipe for nettle soup
May. 20th, 2023 02:38 pmI posted the recipe for nettle soup in a comment; re-posting it here in case more people want to try it! To be clear, this is for Urtica dioica (the common nettle of Eurasia, which has apparently also spread to other continents) and I cannot speak for the edibility/taste of other nettle species.
Pick the nettles during the spring, by wearing gloves and using a scissors. Just take the top, so you don't have to weed out the stringy stems later. Wash them in water, then boil them in water for perhaps five minutes. If you have more nettles than fits in your pot, boil them in several batches, in the same water. Keep the water that you boiled in for later. Chop the nettles which are now soft and don't sting. Make a soup with vegetable stock and the water that you boiled the nettles in, and add chopped nettles, some chopped fried onions, some cream, a little thickening (flour), some black pepper and salt to taste. Eat with a boiled egg if you like.
Pick the nettles during the spring, by wearing gloves and using a scissors. Just take the top, so you don't have to weed out the stringy stems later. Wash them in water, then boil them in water for perhaps five minutes. If you have more nettles than fits in your pot, boil them in several batches, in the same water. Keep the water that you boiled in for later. Chop the nettles which are now soft and don't sting. Make a soup with vegetable stock and the water that you boiled the nettles in, and add chopped nettles, some chopped fried onions, some cream, a little thickening (flour), some black pepper and salt to taste. Eat with a boiled egg if you like.
