This simple recipe shows you how to make Nettle Champ, a mash with nettles and onions. This can easily be adapted to nettle soup with extra stock if you have a blender.
Nettle Champ
Ingredients
- 1 Large Potato Scrubbed and chopped finely
- 1 Onion, white or red Scrubbed and chopped finely
- 1 Pint Nettle tops (top four leaves) Packed tightly
- 2 Knobs Butter
- 1 Veg Stock Cube
Instructions
- Pick your nettles – I suggest wearing gloves – Take just the top four leaves off each plant. Try to pick nettles that are taller than the back leg off a dog, especially if your at the side of paths. And ensure you pick the nettles before they come to flower. Rinsing them is advised.
- Scrub the potato and chop it up finely.
- Chop the onion up finely.
- Chop the nettles finely. I hold them with a spatula to do this – it stops you getting stung.
- Melt a good sized block of butter in the pan
- Sweat the onions off in the pan
- Add the potoates and gently fry them off
- Add the stock, till it’s just covering the potatoes
- Simmer covered for 15 minutes
- Add the nettles and stir in fully – They loose their sting as they are heated.
- Mash the mix – either by beating it with a spatula or with a masher. I added more stock to do this.
- Plate up and enjoy.
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