Nettle soup with egg potato and chicken

Beautiful, bright, healthy, for lunch for the whole family! Nettle soup with egg, potatoes and chicken is a recipe for the first dish, which is prepared in early spring from young nettles. It is during this period that it contains the maximum amount of useful substances. Cooking is not particularly difficult.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 41 % 9 g
Fats 23 % 5 g
Carbohydrates 36 % 8 g
112 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to cook nettle soup with egg, potatoes and chicken? Prepare the products. For the broth, take any parts of the chicken, I have these shins, but thighs, fillets, and the skeleton left over from cutting into fillets will do. Boil the eggs beforehand. Pick young nettles, trying to take only the top fresh shoots. Be careful, it burns a lot, use gloves.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    First of all, fill the shins with cold clean water and put a saucepan with them on a small fire to cook. While the broth is boiling, prepare the nettles. Put it in a bowl, fill it with cold water and rinse it thoroughly to wash off the dirt and sand. Then drain the water. Do all this with gloves, the nettle is still burning. To save her from this, pour boiling water over the nettle and hold it in it for one minute.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Drain the boiling water from the nettle, collect the grass itself into a ball and squeeze it slightly. Cut the nettles quite finely, like cutting greens.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Rinse the dill with water, dry it and also chop it finely with a knife. Instead of dill (or together with it), you can take any other greens. Set aside the nettles and dill for now.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    The broth will boil in the meantime, remove the foam from it with a slotted spoon. Add salt, turn down the heat and cook the broth under a closed lid for 30-40 minutes, depending on the parts of the chicken.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Prepare the vegetables in the meantime. Peel the onion and cut into small pieces.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Wash, peel and cut the carrots into small pieces. Or grate on a coarse grater, as you prefer.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Wash the potatoes, peel and cut into large cubes.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Peel the eggs and cut into cubes.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    The broth has already boiled the required time, throw potatoes into it.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    And then onions and carrots. Cover the pan with a lid again and cook the soup for 15 minutes, the potatoes should become soft.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Add chopped eggs to the soup. Wait for it to boil, boil it for just a couple of minutes.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Add chopped nettles and dill. Mix it up. Wait again when the soup boils and immediately turn off the fire — this way you will save both the color and vitamins of the nettle. Cover the pan with a lid and hold for 10 minutes.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    Serve the soup to the table with sour cream and rye bread. Bon appetit!

The first time I cooked nettle soup, I really liked it. The taste is delicate, delicate, but at the same time richly herbal.

Important! Regardless of whether the amount of water for soup is indicated in the recipe or not, it is best to focus on your own preferences (thick or more liquid soup you like), as well as on the size of your pan and the products taken for cooking. Do not forget that the author has his own view on the amount of meat, potatoes, cereals and other ingredients in the soup, which may not coincide with yours.  In practice, this means that if you are cooking for the first time, you should not cook a whole pot at once. Make a soup for tasting - for one or two people. To do this, reduce the amount of all ingredients according to the recipe to 1-2 servings, and take the amount of water from the calculation: from one cup per serving - if the soup is very thick, to 1.5-2 cups - if more liquid. Do not forget to take into account that part of the liquid will boil off during the cooking process. After tasting a small portion of soup, you can adjust both the amount of liquid and the proportions of ingredients to your taste. In the future, like most experienced housewives, you will be able to pour water for soup and lay the ingredients “by eye".

How to cook hard-boiled eggs? So that the eggs do not crack when cooking, put them in cold water and put them to cook on a small fire. Boil the eggs for 9 minutes after boiling, then pour cold water and cool. From a sharp temperature drop, the shell will be better cleaned.

How to choose the perfect pot for soup, porridge or pickling cucumbers read the article about pots.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Ripe potatoes - 80   kcal/100g
  • Baked potatoes - 70   kcal/100g
  • Mashed potatoes - 380   kcal/100g
  • Boiled potatoes - 82   kcal/100g
  • Potatoes in uniform - 74   kcal/100g
  • Fried potatoes - 192   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 157   kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45   kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352   kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118   kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   kcal/100g
  • Dill greens - 38   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Chicken legs - 158   kcal/100g
  • Nettle - 33   kcal/100g

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