Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, nettle and wild garlic soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Remove from the heat and blend using a stick blender or tip into a blender. Return to the heat and stir through the milk, then taste for seasoning. Add the stock and bring to the boil. Vegetable stock, butter and salt & pepper.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nettle and wild garlic soup using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Nettle and Wild Garlic Soup:
- Get 200 g Young Nettle Leaves
- Get 250 g Wild Garlic Leaves
- Prepare 2 Potatoes
- Prepare 1 Large Onion
- Prepare 2 Cloves Garlic
- Prepare 1 Lemon
- Make ready 1-2 Veggie Stock Cubes
- Get 2 Tsp Salt
- Get 1 Tsp Nutmeg
- Prepare 1 Litre Boiling Water
- Make ready 25 g Vegan Butter
- Get Black Pepper (to taste)
Use chicken stock instead of vegetable stock, add leeks as an extra vegetable or use rice instead of potato to bulk up the soup. You can also add a handful of foraged mushrooms if you have any. Stir in wild garlic and cream and puree the soup till smooth. Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.
Steps to make Nettle and Wild Garlic Soup:
- Wash the wild garlic and nettles. When the nettles are wet they won't sting so only handle them without gloves when wet. Peel and dice the potatoes and dice the onion and garlic.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan and add the onion and garlic to the pan with a pinch of salt for 5 minutes until soft.
- Add the potato and cook for another 5 minutes. Place the lid on the pot to make the vegetables sweat. Stir occasionally to ensure they don't stick to the bottom of the pan.
- Add the stock cubes to the boiling water and add to the saucepan. Season with the rest of the salt, nutmeg and half of the lemon juice. Simmer for 10 minutes.
- Add the nettles and wild garlic and rest of the lemon juice (if you like it). Simmer for a further 5 minutes (or until the potato is soft).
- Blitz until smooth and season with pepper. Enjoy!
Stir in wild garlic and cream and puree the soup till smooth. Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Don't pick nettles with thick woody stems; go for the succulent green stems and only the top third of the plant. This is a dish for early in the season, as nettles get tougher as spring passes - better served in May than June. Wash the wild garlic very well and then chop it roughly.
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