Nettle Soup: The perfectly healthy Spring-time pick-me-up

What you need:

Foraged nettle tops – about 2 gloved handfuls should be enough

1 onion

1 clove garlic

Couple of potatoes – peeled and chopped

Chunk of butter

Vegetable stock

What to do:

• Chop up the onion and the garlic clove – doesn’t need to be finely as you are going to blitz the soup at the end.
• Gently soften the onion and garlic in the butter in a saucepan.
• Add the potatoes and nettle tops and stir to coat with the butter.
• Add the stock.
• Bring to the boil briefly then let simmer for about 20 minutes – long enough to soften the potato.
• When cool enough, blitz the soup, ideally with a hand blender.
• You can add cream, salt, pepper just before serving if you want.
• Serve with some nice home-made bread and enjoy!

You can watch the video I made on Youtube about how to make this dish here: https://youtu.be/qFcKmY3LzMY