Nettle soup
- Serves 4
- Easy
Make this easy nettle soup recipe – perfect for a light lunch.
Don’t forget to put gloves on before you pick nettles. Once cooked nettles thankfully lose their sting and have a light spinach flavour. Thanks to the abundance of nettles in the countryside, this soup is incredibly cheap to make.
Ingredients
- Fresh nettles 500g, Wear gloves while picking, washing and handling while fresh
- onion 1, diced
- butter 50g
- Carrot 1, chopped
- celery sticks 2, chopped
- garlic cloves 2
- Large potatoe 1, cooked and diced
- vegetable stock 1 litre
- double cream or crème fraîche 40ml
Method
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Step 1
Wearing gloves, pick over the nettles and wash them carefully and thoroughly in hot water, discarding the tougher stalks.
![Cutting stinging nettles]( "Stinging-nettles")
Wear protective gloves to avoid a nasty sting (Getty) -
Step 2
Melt the butter in a large pan and fry the onion, carrot, celery and garlic until soft. Add the vegetable stock and cooked potato and simmer until cooked – approximately, 15 minutes.
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Step 3
Add the nettles and boil for a couple of minutes until the nettles have wilted. Whizz in a blender with the double cream and a pinch of salt and pepper. Serve with a chuck of fresh bread.
