With the onset of springtime, the weakened human body, like never before, needs a large amount of vitamins. And not those that are sold in the pharmacy, but those that you can cook yourself from the products available on your own personal plot. In the spring months, clover, nettle bushes, and dandelions appear there. We need nettles! From it you can make a number of healthy and tasty dishes - pies, soups, various salads.
How to cook nettle
soup ? The recipe is simple. In this article we will consider a couple of its options.
First of all, I would like to recall what benefit will be from the said dish. In addition to the fact that nettle is saturated with trace elements and vitamins, it also increases hemoglobin, and even cleanses the blood. To taste, this soup resembles an ear, and it is prepared in a very similar way.
Before you begin to solve the problem of how to cook nettle soup , you need to decide what products we need. By the way, do not forget to wear cotton gloves so as not to get burned. Although, if the nettle is tender and young, it can be torn with bare hands.
Essential Ingredients:
- a small armful of nettle (100-200 grams);
- a couple of carrots;
- potatoes - 3 pieces;
- one small onion head;
- three liters of water;
- spices and salt to taste.
And now the nettle soup itself! The recipe for its preparation is as follows: peel the potatoes, cut them into cubes and put them in boiled water. While it is boiling, peel the carrots and rub it on a grater. Add to the pan. Then finely chop the onion and send it there. If there is such a desire, you can pre-fry a little carrots and onions in vegetable oil.
Rinse the nettle well with cold water and scald with boiling water to prevent burns during further processing. We cut everything - both stems and leaves.
We are waiting for the potatoes to be cooked. After this, pour nettle into the pan, salt and add spices (to taste). Cover and cook for a maximum of a couple of minutes. Then turn off the stove - that's it, the soup is ready. You can serve immediately, adding a little linseed oil. In this case, the dish will be much healthier and tastier.
Now consider the second option - how to cook nettle soup with the addition of Adyghe cheese. To do this, we need the following ingredients:
- water - two liters;
- potato - three pieces;
- a couple of carrots;
- young nettle - a bunch;
- Adyghe cheese - 200 grams;
- coarse salt - one tablespoon;
- butter - 30 grams;
- two things bay leaves and black ground pepper.
- For dressing, cook sour cream.
We start preparing the dish "Nettle Soup". The recipe is as follows: we also start cooking soup with potatoes.
As soon as the broth with potatoes boils, remove the foam and lay the carrots, cut into small cubes. Then add the bay leaf and butter. With well-washed nettles, we cut off the leaves, and remove all the thick stems. We cut it not too finely. We choose nettles younger, so as not to infuse boiling water (in order to maintain maximum vitamins). If she will sting, use
rubber gloves. Dice the
Adyghe cheese into cubes
. After 10 minutes cooking vegetables, add cheese, nettle and salt to them. Cook another five minutes after boiling and turn off the heat.
Soup can be served on the table, pre-sprinkled with black pepper and seasoned with sour cream. Try to cook nettle soup, its recipe is quite simple and will not take you much time. Many housewives cook such a dish on meat broth, and at the end of cooking add a little more sorrel. But this is already a matter of taste.