Delicious green Nettle!

As we promissed we will also share some of our recipes with you. So, because now Spring is here and everything is getting green, we decided to profit of the warmth and to prepare something good. One of the most delicious plants that grows in this time of the year in the wild is Urtica dioica or the Stinging Nettle.

How to cook it?

One of the best recipes is to cook the nettle as a sauce. It has a very similar taste with spinach so it can be cooked in the same way.This is a recipe from Romania;)

Ingredients:

• 1 bag of stinging nettles harvested from the forest
• oil
• 3 garlic cloves
• 3 spoons of flour
• 100 ml of milk
• salt and peper

Preparation:

• boil the nettles untill they get fragile, approx. 20-30 min;
• take them out of the boilling water and cut them very small, removing the parts that are a bit crusty;
• in a pot put 2-3 spoons of oil and the garlic cut in little pieces and let the garlic fry a bit (don’t let it burn because it gets bitter);
• after the garlic is a bit fryed put the flour and mix it with the oil;
• mix the oil and the flour untill the mixture is homogeneous and then put some water (depending on the quantity of nettles you have);
• put the nettles inside the mixture and add the milk;
• add salt and pepper and let it boil untill the flour transforms everything into a sauce;
• enjoy the sauce with what you desire (fryed egs,boiled potatoes)!

This is  one of the ways the nettle can be cooked but this plant can be cooked in so many other ways.