Wild nettle soup
Nature provides an abundance of natural ingredients for us to use in the kitchen, some you may never have considered using before.
Don’t be put off by their sting, nettles are free and so healthy for you as they contain iron, calcium, magnesium, vitamins A, C and K, and they make a delicious zingy soup!
Total Time: 40 minutes
Servings: 4
Rating:
Total Time: 40 minutes
Servings: 4
Ingredients
Method
Ingredients
(Servings: 4)
- 100 100 g nettles
- 0.25 0.25 litre vegetable stock stock
- Dash of olive oil
- 0.5 0.5 medium-size onions (finely chopped)
- 1 1 cloves garlic (finely chopped)
- 0.5 0.5 medium-size potatoes (finely chopped)
- salt and pepper (to season)
- 0.25 0.25 tsp sugar
- Fresh dill to decorate
Method
- Pick the wild nettles and carefully wash in a cold water. Using gloves, cut off any leaves that are old or stems that are too thick.
- In the meantime, sauté onions and garlic with the olive oil in a saucepan for few minutes on a medium heat until soft. I then add potatoes and mix it for few minutes. In this stage, make sure your potatoes are not sticking to the pan, once they start doing it, add some more oil or just keep mixing.
- Add the vegetable stock and boil it until potatoes are soft.
- Carefully place the nettles in a pan with the soup mix and simmer for 1-2 min. The less time you keep them in boiling water, the more nutritious they stay.
- Blend everything and season it with salt and pepper and a dash of sugar.
