Last week we had our first meal from our smallholding, nettle soup! It's going to be a while until our veg is ready to eat so I thought a foraged meal would be a better place to start.
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| Nettle |
Unfortunately, finding the nettles was far too easy.
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| Collecting your nettle in a old Waitrose bag makes them feel posher |
The recipe i used goes as follows:
One carrier bag of nettles,
One onion,
Two garlic cloves,
One potato
1200ml of stock
salt and pepper
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| Adding them to the saucepan in batches as they soon wilt down |
Fried the onion in a little oil till softened, then added the diced potato and garlic. fry these for 5 minutes before adding the stock and the nettles (well washed).
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| Wilted down nettles |
Leave this to cook for 20 minutes then blend it together
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| Blend it |
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| Nice, cheap tea |
Although the soup was nice it did taste a little like it was missing something, maybe some herbs and spices would have improved it - anyone with any suggestions?
Here is a youtube video you might like on nettles it is from JAS Townsend and Son if the link does not work.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbTn_IjmUFc&feature=plcp
Hey that's a great link - but I'm sure I'm going to end up watching more of his videos now! I might have to try cooking them that way as well and see which is best. lighting frying the nettles like that in the onions would probably give them more flavour, I also like all his cooking equipment (although not sure they would have had welding gloves in the 18c).
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Kev
Hi, I had the most lovely nettle soup when I was in Salzburg last year. I have been meaning to find a recipe since then. I will check out that you tube video.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog by the way, I followed over from Rhonda's link. I bet you will have hundreds of hits now :)
Parmesan style cheese sprinkled in it tastes lovely!
ReplyDeleteI also came via Rhonda's Blog, you're suddenly going to inundated with comments.
Sue xx