Nettle is considered a medicinal plant, and its beneficial properties are very diverse. In addition, nettle has been used in cooking since ancient times, as nettle leaves have an exquisite taste and beneficial properties. Almost all European cuisines offer any dishes from it. You can cook a variety of delicious and healthy nettle dishes. The burning leaves of this plant can be added to borscht and other soups, boil nettle soup and green cabbage soup from them, and prepare various salads and other dishes.
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Instruction manual
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To prepare nettles, collect it in May, when she is still “young”. In early nettles, the leaves are still tender, they are most rich in useful substances. Rinse the leaves well before cooking, you can also scald them with boiling water.
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Nettle soups are very good for health, and among different nations they are favorite dishes. A delicious dish of young nettles is spring nettle soup. To make it, peel the potatoes and cut them into small cubes, then put them in boiling water and set to boil. Sort nettle, rinse, scald with boiling water and finely chop. In addition to nettle leaves, you can add chopped sorrel, which also must first be sorted and washed. After that, add it to boiling potatoes 7-10 minutes before it is ready.
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Lightly fry the grated carrots and finely chopped onions in a pan, which must be added at the end of cooking. Put also bay leaf and spices to taste. And boil the soup on low heat for 3-5 minutes. You can put a hard-boiled egg into a bowl of soup. Add mayonnaise or sour cream to taste.
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From nettles you can cook tasty and healthy salads. For this purpose, only young leaflets are suitable, since they are not so tough. To prepare the "Spring" salad, young sorrel and nettle leaves (250-300 g each) and 100 g green onions, thoroughly rinse, dry and chop finely. Then mix it all with finely chopped 2 hard-boiled eggs. Add to taste mayonnaise, soy sauce or vegetable oil. Salt, or better, sprinkle the salad with the juice of a lemon wedge. You can also decorate the salad with radishes, and if desired, add pre-washed and chopped dandelion leaves or plantain.
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For a light breakfast, nettle omelette is perfect. Break 2 eggs and mix them with nettle leaves, washed and finely chopped. Add salt to taste and pour the mixture into a hot skillet. Ready omelet can be decorated with greens.
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To make cottage cheese with nettles, wipe 200 g of cottage cheese through a sieve or on a fine grater, and then mix this mass with one glass of finely chopped nettle leaves. Add 3 cloves of finely chopped garlic, 1 tsp. mustard and 3 tablespoons vegetable oil. This exotic vitamin "green cottage cheese" diversifies your menu.
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Another interesting dish is nettles. Boil 100 g of nettle in boiling water for 2-3 minutes, fold it into a sieve or colander, and then grind it. Then mix 200 g of thick millet porridge with greens and make the meatballs. Bake in the oven and serve with any sauce that you like.
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What is nettle useful for? It is very rich in salts, contains a lot of iron, potassium and sulfur. Nettle leaves contain carotene, flint, ascorbic, formic and pantothenic acids, and vitamins. In addition, it cleanses the body of metabolic products and improves blood composition.
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It should be remembered that pregnant women are categorically not recommended to eat nettles, since it can provoke contractions in them, as well as cause premature birth.
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