Nettle soup

Easy and delicious, simple and fast, for every day! Nettle soup tastes very similar to fish soup. You can cook it from fresh or frozen nettles. Any beginner can handle the cooking! Serve the finished soup with sour cream, sprinkling it with fresh herbs.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 13 % 1 g
Fats 13 % 1 g
Carbohydrates 75 % 6 g
39 kcal
GI: 67 / 33 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 40 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to cook nettle soup? Prepare the products. Pour vegetable oil on the bottom of the pot in which the soup will be cooked. The oil can be any, the main thing is that it does not have a strong aroma. You can use melted butter, then the taste of the finished soup will have a slight creamy note. In the heated oil, put the carrots, peeled and grated on a coarse grater. Fry the chopped carrots until soft, stirring them occasionally with a spatula.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Take a young nettle for soup, or use only the tops of older nettles. Such greens are more delicate in structure and taste. The stems are often too hard and rigid. Pour boiling water over the nettle greens, then finely chop it.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Wash the potatoes, peel and cut into small pieces of the same size. Put it in a saucepan with carrots, fry the vegetables all together a little. You can add some spices to taste, for example, ground black pepper, turmeric, curry, ground paprika. Fry the spices together with the vegetables.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Pour boiling water over the vegetables, add the required amount of rice, add salt. You can add a small amount of bay pepper and allspice. Bring the contents of the pan to a boil and cook for about 20 minutes. Navigate by your plate.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    At the end of cooking, add the chopped nettle, boil for a few more minutes and remove the nettle soup from the heat. If desired, add chopped fresh herbs to the finished soup. Ready nettle soup is served hot. When serving, the soup can be supplemented with fresh sour cream or mayonnaise.

For cooking, it is better to use filtered or bottled water that is neutral to taste. If you use tap water, keep in mind that it can give the dish an unpleasant characteristic taste.

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".

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

  • 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
  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Fresh frozen soup greens in a package - 41   kcal/100g
  • Greenery - 41   kcal/100g
  • Nettle - 33   kcal/100g
  • Round rice - 330   kcal/100g

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