Now is a good time to pick and eat wild nettles. Here are some recipes
Mike Pollitt | Thursday 26 May, 2011 12:24
- Nigel Slater’s nettley cheese on toast recipe
According to this indispensible website, wild nettles are now in season. - Nettle and spinach soup with Gruyère bread
Wear some gloves and pick the young soft leaves from the top. The older leaves are crap. - Nettle pizza
Basically treat the leaves like a stingy spinach, so boiling is good. - Nettle risotto
They’ll sting until they are cooked, so wear some gloves in the kitchen too. - 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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