Nettle soup - 8 step-by-step recipes

With the onset of warm May days, a huge amount of young greenery appears in the forests, among which, of course, nettles. Fresh nettles are great for making delicious and healthy soups, and in this article, we'll show you a few different recipes for such a dish.

Nettle soup with egg and potatoes

Incredibly delicious and fresh summer soup containing many vitamins. It prepares pretty quickly, and you can pick up young nettles for it on a warm May day in any nearby forest.

Cooking time: 75 min.

Cooking time: 20 min.

Servings - 8.

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  We wash the chicken, fill it with water and send it to cook with an onion and one carrot for an hour. We also add pepper, salt, and 5 minutes before cooking - bay leaf.
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  We take out the chicken from the broth and separate the meat from the bones. We remove the onion with bay leaf from the pan, chop the carrots.
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  Peel the remaining carrots, rinse and chop. We do the same with the potatoes and send them to the boiling broth. After 10 minutes, add the carrots to the potatoes.
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  Rinse the nettle thoroughly with cool water.
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  Then we scald it with boiling water and grind it. Add the nettle to the broth.
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  Chop green onions and herbs and add to the soup, after which we cook it for another 10 minutes.
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  Add salt and vinegar to boiling water, reduce heat to minimum and carefully pour the egg into the center of the pan.
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  Cook each egg for 3 minutes.
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  Pour the finished soup into bowls, add an egg to each portion and serve. Bon Appetit!

Cabbage soup from young nettle and sorrel

A simple, but no less tasty way of preparing spring cabbage soup from young greens. This soup is most delicious in beef broth, but any meat or poultry can be used if desired.

Cooking time: 120 min.

Cooking time: 40 min.

Servings - 6.

Ingredients:

• Sorrel - 2 bunches
• Nettle leaves - 1 bunch
• Potatoes - 5 pcs.
• Beef ribs - 1 kg.
• Butter - 50 gr.
• Spices to taste
• Salt to taste

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the beef ribs thoroughly and separate.
2. Then we transfer the ribs to a saucepan and fill it with cold water.
3. Bring the water to a boil over high heat, remove the formed foam and reduce the heat.
4. Add spices to taste, cover the pan with a lid and leave to simmer for an hour and a half.
5. We sort out the nettle and sorrel, remove all excess, mix the herbs and add a tablespoon of salt.
6. Fill the herbs with water, mix and leave for about half an hour.
7. Then we rinse the herbs under running water.
8. We shred the herbs not too finely.
9. Peel and cut the potatoes into small pieces, then add them to the broth.
10. Melt the butter in a frying pan and put the herbs on it.
11. Mix well, cover and leave to simmer for 5 minutes. Then remove the lid and, stirring, simmer until it looks like in the photo.
12. When the potatoes are ready, add the stewed herbs to the pan.
13. Mix well, add salt if necessary and after 10 minutes turn off the heat.Cover the pan with a lid and leave to infuse for half an hour.
14. Serve soup with boiled egg. Bon Appetit!

How to cook delicious nettle soup with meat?

Amazing thick and rich nettle soup with pork and mushrooms. It is the combination of young nettle with champignons that gives the dish a special and incomparable taste, but any mushrooms to your taste will do.

Cooking time: 45 min.

Cooking time: 20 min.

Servings - 8.

Ingredients:

• Pork brisket - 300 gr.
• Nettle leaves - 300 gr.
• Champignons - 300 gr.
• White cabbage - 300 gr.
• Green onions - 100 gr.
• Greens - 200 gr.
• Garlic - 1 clove
• Rosemary - 1 sprig
• Salt to taste

Cooking process:

1. Put the pork in a saucepan, fill it with water and add chopped greens, and then salt to taste.
2. Cut the champignons into thin slices.
3. Coarsely chop the cabbage.
4. We also chop the nettle into large pieces.
5. Add all the ingredients to the broth and send the pan to the oven for 45 minutes. Add green onions to the soup before serving. Bon Appetit!

Young nettle soup with chicken

Fresh young nettle soup is perfect for a hot spring day. It is easy to prepare, and all the ingredients are available, especially if there is a forest near your place of residence where you can collect nettles.

Cooking time: 65 min.

Cooking time: 20 min.

Servings - 8.

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet - 500 gr.
• Nettle leaves - 200 gr.
• Potatoes - 700 gr.
• Bulb onions - 200 gr.
• Ground black pepper - to taste
• Salt to taste

Cooking process:

1. Cut the chicken fillet into small pieces.
2. Fill the meat with cold water, add salt and pepper and leave to cook for half an hour.
3. Rinse the nettle thoroughly and chop finely.
4. Peel and cut the potatoes into small cubes.
5. Add the potatoes to the boiling broth and cook for 5 minutes.
6. Then add chopped onion to the pan.
7. After the onion, add nettles to the broth and cook for about 7 minutes more.
8. We serve the soup hot, if you wish, you can add a boiled egg. Bon Appetit!

A simple and delicious recipe for nettle dumpling soup

A very tasty and hearty soup with dumplings, which is supplemented with spring freshness by the leaves of young nettle. It is prepared quickly and easily, so there shouldn't be any difficulties with this wonderful soup.

Cooking time: 65 min.

Cooking time: 20 min.

Servings - 8.

Ingredients:

• Nettle leaves - 2 kg.
• Potatoes - 7 pcs.
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Bulb onions - 1 pc.
• Eggs - 3 pcs.
• Flour - 1 tbsp.
• Butter - 20 gr.
• Ground black pepper - to taste
• Salt to taste

Cooking process:

1. We wash the young nettle, dry it and chop finely.
2. Peel and cut the potatoes into small pieces.
3. Peel and chop the carrots and onions, then fry in butter until golden brown.
4. For the dumplings, mix the eggs with flour to make a thick dough. Add a small amount of water if necessary.
5. We put potatoes, onions and carrots in a saucepan, fill with water and send to the fire. When the potatoes are boiled, add the dumplings to the pan and bring the water to a boil again, then add the nettle, pepper and salt and cook the soup, stirring occasionally, for another 10 minutes. Bon Appetit!

Green fresh nettle soup without meat

Vegetarian version of young nettle soup, which turns out to be very tasty, and most importantly, it is also very useful. To the taste, this soup is somewhat reminiscent of an ear.

Cooking time: 25 min.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings - 8.

Ingredients:

• Nettle leaves - 1 bunch.
• Potatoes - 3 pcs.
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Adyghe cheese - 200 gr.
• Water - 2 liters.
• Butter - 30 gr.
• Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
• Ground black pepper - to taste
• Salt to taste

Cooking process:

1. Bring the water to a boil and send the potatoes cut into small cubes into it.
2. When the water boils again, remove the resulting foam and add finely chopped carrots, a piece of butter and bay leaf.
3. We wash the nettle leaves and remove all excess.
4. Do not chop the nettle too finely.
5. Cut the Adyghe cheese into medium-sized cubes.
6. 10 minutes after adding vegetables, add cheese and nettle to the soup. Salt to taste and leave to simmer for another 5 minutes.
7. Add freshly ground pepper to the soup and serve. Bon Appetit!

Quick and Easy Nettle Stew Soup

An economical version of green soup made from fresh nettle using stew. The soup turns out to be thick, rich and very tasty, despite cooking without meat broth.

Cooking time: 30 min.

Cooking time: 15 min.

Servings - 6.

Ingredients:

• Nettle leaves - 1 bunch.
• Potatoes - 6 pcs.
• Pork stew - 1 can
• Egg - 2 pcs.
• Green onions - 1 bunch
• Sorrel - 1 bunch
• Dill - ½ bunch
• Water - 3 liters.
• Salt to taste

Cooking process:

1. We wash the nettle, then soak it in boiling water for 10-15 minutes. We drain the water, and squeeze the nettles and chop finely.
2. We also wash the sorrel and cut into medium-sized strips.
3. Chop green onions and dill.
4. Peel the potatoes and cut them into cubes.
5. Break the eggs into a bowl and stir with a fork or whisk.
6. Add the potatoes to boiling water and cook until tender, then add the herbs to the pan. Bring the soup to a boil again and add the mashed stew.
7. When the soup boils, pour the eggs into it and shake everything thoroughly. Bon Appetit!

How to make healthy nettle and dune soup?

Dream and nettle soup is an incredibly healthy dish, full of vitamins and minerals. And the addition of rice and melted cheese to the soup gives it a unique taste that you and your guests will definitely like.

Cooking time: 40 min.

Cooking time: 15 min.

Servings - 4.

Ingredients:

• Nettle leaves - 200 gr.
• Runny - 200 gr.
• Rice - 1 sachet
• Egg - 2 pcs.
• Chicken broth - 1 l.
• Carrots - 50 gr.
• Onions - 50 gr.
• Cream cheese - 50 gr.
• Olive oil - 2 tablespoons
• Salt to taste

Cooking process:

1. We prepare all the products necessary for our soup.
2. Cook rice in a bag according to the instructions, then boil hard-boiled eggs in the same water.
3. We wash the nettle thoroughly in cold water.
4. We do the same with the dampness, after which we put it in a colander.
5. Pour nettle with boiling water and leave for 3 minutes, then pour over with cold water and chop finely.
6. Peel carrots with onions, chop and sauté in olive oil.
7. Bring the chicken broth to a boil and send the nettle leaves into it for 4 minutes, then add the chopped processed cheese and carrots with onions. Salt to taste.
8. We pass the drainage through a juicer.
9. Grind the soup with a blender.
10. Before serving, put the boiled rice on a plate, fill it with soup and add about 3 tablespoons of juice to the dry. Decorate with half a boiled egg. Bon Appetit!