Name: Wild Garlic and Nettle Soup
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: a couple of good knobs of butter; 2 leeks, trimmed, chopped and washed; 1 tablespoon plain flour; 1.5 litres hot vegetable stock; salt and freshly ground black pepper; handful of young nettle tops; handful of wild garlic leaves, washed and chopped; 3-4 tablespoons double cream

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

British Seasonal Food

By Mark Hix

Published 2008

About

When you have great wild ingredients at hand, it makes sense to use them. Both young nettles and wild garlic are abundant at this time of year and easy to gather — just remember to take a rubber glove with you for gathering the nettles. And don’t worry, cooking takes the prickle out of young nettles so they aren’t going to sting your throat on the way down.