Recipes
Nettle Soup
Ingredients
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50ml olive oil
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1 onion chopped
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1 leek washed and finely sliced
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1 large maris piper potato (about250g)
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1 carrot
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400g nettles (washed)
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50g butter diced
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50ml double cream
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1 litre of vegetable stock
Quick and easy this nettle soup makes a healthy and delicious lunch
Method
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat.
- Add the onion, carrot, leek and potato, and cook for 10 mins until the vegetables start to soften.
- Add the stock and cook for a further 10-15 mins until the potato is soft.
- Add the nettle leaves, simmer for 1 min to wilt, then blend the soup.
- Season to taste, then stir in the butter and cream.
- Serve the soup drizzled with extra oil and scattered with dead nettle flowers, if you have them.
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