Nettle Soup

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    Four

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Roger Phillips

Published 1986

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Ingredients

  • 1 large onion
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 2 potatoes

Method

Peel and chop the onion, garlic and potatoes and fry them for 3 or 4 minutes in a large saucepan in a little olive oil. Trim away the stems from the nettle tops using gloves and scissors, wash well and add the tops to the pan. Make up stock cube with 1 litre (1¾ pints) of boiling water (or better still use homemade stock). Boil fairly rapidly for 15 minutes, until the potatoes are cooked. Liqui