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Now is a good time to pick and eat wild nettles. Here are some recipes

Mike Pollitt | Thursday 26 May, 2011 12:24

1. Nigel Slater’s nettley cheese on toast recipe
   According to this indispensible website, wild nettles are now in season.
2. Nettle and spinach soup with Gruyère bread
   Wear some gloves and pick the young soft leaves from the top. The older leaves are crap.
3. Nettle pizza
   Basically treat the leaves like a stingy spinach, so boiling is good.
4. Nettle risotto
   They’ll sting until they are cooked, so wear some gloves in the kitchen too.
5. Nettle fritatta
   And then deliberately give yourself a little sting on the arm just to show to everybody as proof of your culinary adventurousness.

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