Nettle Soup

(from scout4089’s recipe box)

Source: Deborah Madison

Categories: Soup

Ingredients

  • plastic vegetable bag full of nettles
  • 2 T butter
  • 1 c onion or scallion
  • 1 small potato, thinly sliced
  • 6 c chard leaves, thinly sliced
  • sea salt and pepper
  • 6 c vegetable stock, chicken stock or water
  • 1/2 c cream

Directions

  1. Bring 3 qts water to boil. Using tongs or gloves, plunge the nettles into a bowl of cold water and swish them back and forth, then drop in boiling water for 2 min.

  2. Drain and chop corsley, discarding any large stems.

  3. Melt butter in soup pot and add onion and potato.

  4. Cook over med heat for 5 min.

  5. Add chard, 1 1/2 t salt and stock.

  6. Bring to boil, add nettles and simmer until potato is soft, 15-20 min.

  7. Puree soup until smooth then return to stove.

  8. Add cream, heat until hot.

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