Nettle soup: a recipe for cooking

With the onset of spring, the weakened human body, as never before, needs a lot of vitamins. And not those that are sold in the pharmacy, and those that can be cooked most of the products available on its own private plot. In the spring months, there appears clover, nettle bushes, dandelions. We need nettles! From it you can make a number of useful and tasty dishes - pies, soups, various salads. How to cook soup with nettle? Its recipe is simple. In this article, we'll look at a couple of options.

First of all I would like to remind you what will be the benefit of the mentioned dish. In addition to that the nettle is saturated with microelements and vitamins, it also raises hemoglobin, and even cleanses the blood. To taste this soup reminds the ear, and is prepared in a very similar way.

Before you start solving the problem of how to cook the nettle soup , you need to decide what products we will need. By the way, do not forget to put on cotton gloves to avoid getting burned. Although, if the nettle is tender and young, you can tear it with your bare hands.

Necessary ingredients:

• A small bundle of nettle (100-200 grams);
• A couple of carrots;
• Potatoes - 3 pieces;
• One small head of onions;
• Three liters of water;
• Spices and salt - to taste.

And now the soup with nettle! The recipe for its preparation is as follows: we peel the potatoes from the peel, cut them into cubes and put them in boiling water. While it will be cooked, we clean carrots and rub it on a grater. Add to the pan. Then finely chop the onions and send them there. If there is such a desire, you can preliminary fry the carrots and onions in vegetable oil a little.

Nettle should preferably be rinsed with cold water and scalded with boiling water to prevent burns during further processing. Cut everything - and stems, and leaves.

We are waiting for the potatoes to cook. After that, we pour out the nettle, salt and add the spices (to taste). Cover the lid and cook a maximum of a couple of minutes. Then turn off the stove-everything, the soup is ready. You can immediately serve on the table, adding a little flaxseed oil. In this case, the dish will be much more useful and tasty.

Now consider the second option - how to make a soup of nettles with the addition of Adyghe cheese. For this we need the following ingredients:

• Water - two liters;
• Potatoes - three pieces;
• A pair of carrots;
• A young nettle is a bundle;
• Adyghe cheese - gram 200;
• Large salt - one tablespoon;
• Butter - 30 grams;
• Two pieces of laurel leaves and black ground pepper.
• Prepare sour cream for refilling ready meals.

Let's start cooking the dish "Nettle soup". The recipe is the following: we also begin to prepare the soup with potatoes. As soon as the soup with potatoes boils, remove the foam and put carrots, cut into small cubes. After that add the laurel leaf and butter. With a well washed nettle, 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 chafe with boiling water (in order to preserve the maximum of vitamins). If it stings, use rubber gloves. Dice the Adyghe cheese into cubes . After about 10 cooking vegetables, add cheese, nettle and salt to them. Cook another five minutes after boiling and turn off the fire.

Soup can be served on the table, sprinkled with black pepper and sprinkled with sour cream. Try to make soup with nettles, its recipe is pretty simple and does not take you much time. Many housewives cook this dish on a meat broth, and at the end of the preparation add a little more sorrel. But this is already a matter of taste.