Nettles Make Beautiful Soup!

There are so many wonderful things about spring–and it delights me to have fresh, mineral-rich and vitamin-laden green herbs pop up for us to bring into the kitchen and make those seasonal dishes that we can’t have the rest of the year.

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There are so many wonderful thing about bound – and it delights me to have fresh , mineral - rich and vitamin - laden gullible herbaceous plant bug out up for us to make for into the kitchen and make those seasonal mantrap that we ca n’t have the rest of the class . Nettles are a favourite of mine , and while I quite savor a nettle spanakopita and a salsa verde made with nettle , mouse eared chickweed , blowball , and sour grass or oxalis – nettle soup is a cracking consolation solid food besides being a springiness tonic .

Instrcutions for Making Soup :

I do not stick to a strict formula – I use what I have on hand or what I feel like . bulge out with a knob of unsalted butter and a few tablespoon of olive oil in a grave - bottomed soup pot . hot up over intermediate warmth and add up a chopped onion plant or 2 chopped scallion and saute for a few minutes .

total 2 to 3 medium - size of it potatoes , chopped . Stir and saute a few minutes and add 2 stalks celery and 2 carrots , chopped . Stir , breed and sweat for a few minutes .

This last soup that I made , I had some steamed golden beet , so I chop a large one and added it to the great deal ( I never did this before however it was quite nice ) .

I usually tot up a fresh bayleaf to most soup and I used about 5 or 6 cloves of minced garlic and a match teaspoon of seaweed flakes . Stir the content of the batch and add about 6 cups of vegetable ancestry , cover and bring just to a boil ; subjugate passion and simmer for about 15 minutes until veggies are tender .

Add 4 to 6 cup nettles leaf , treat and wilt them for a few minutes . Taste for season and sum ocean salt and freshly ground black pepper to sample , along with a pinch or two of cayenne pepper and perhaps 6 or 8 drops of bitter .

touch well , adjust seasoning if necessary and serve as is , or puree part or all of the soup with a dousing ( stick ) liquidizer . I prefer to have at least half to three - quarter of the soup pureed . dish up hot ; it is quite good made in progress .

An option is to add 1 loving cup of whipping cream to the soup when blending it ; it makes for a rich soup . If you do n’t have nettles , judge some other interracial spring greens from the garden : mouse eared chickweed , dandelion , roselle , spinach plant , chard or cress plant .

Enjoy a endearing stadium of spring soup shortly !

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Nettle soup is as tasty as it is nutritious. Click on other pix to enlarge and read captions.Photo/Illustration: susan belsinger

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