Category: Wild Food Recipes

With hogweed and three cornered Leeks from @northwestnosh ・・・Green nettle and garlic soup – recipe ?this is nettle and wild garlic, but it’s a great way to use up any greens you have. Bar the onion/carrot you can freestyle this to use up whatever you’ve got. Makes about 4 potions,…

Here’s one for roe buck season… This one’s a bit of a mash-up—classic Milanese-style venison (thin, breadcrumbed, and pan-fried) served with spaghetti in a tomato and mascarpone sauce, lifted with a handful of foraged flavour: Wild Garlic and Sea Leeks. The creamy tomato base gets a punch of freshness from…

  Recipe from @the_road_to_connorThis recipe is Part soccata, part omelette – I made this super simple and absolutely delicious dish for lunch. Ingredients 1 cup of chickpea flour 1 scant cup of water 2 eggs, 1 grated courgette 1 handful of wild garlic and 1 of common sorrel – finely…

This Wild Garlic Buds Pickle is a great way to utilise the wild garlic buds just before they open in to flower, we use these like a garlic version of capers and they work well as a garnish to salads, but my absolute favourite is to chuck them on top…

These crispy wild garlic pesto potatoes are super easy to make and full of flavour. The potatoes are first roasted, then fried with pesto so they get golden and a bit crispy, with some tasty charred bits. They go great as a side with meat or eggs, or just on…

Ingredients: 100g nettle tops – wilted in a pan and finely chopped (or 10g dried nettle leaves powdered) 1 sachet of bread yeast – or 1 tsp 500g strong bread flour 1 tblsp birch sap syrup (or honey) 2 tblsp olive oil 350ml water 50g salted butter – melted 1…

Ingredients: per person 1 pear, chopped with the middle removed 5 Nettle tops, washed (or spinach) 200ml hazelnut milk (or regular milk) 2 ice cubes Click here for a foraging guide for Nettles Method: Chuck the whole lot in to a blender or smoothie machine and blend until nice and…

Ingredients: Per person 100g ‘00’ Flour 1 egg 5 Nettle tops See our Nettle Foraging Guide here Method: Chop the nettle tops and mush in a pestle and mortar, straining away the juice (or chop very finely) Put the flour in a big bowl, add the nettles and mix, then…

There’s something deeply satisfying about gathering the first wild greens of the season, and this dish captures that feeling perfectly. Nettles, Wild Garlic, and a good melting cheese — nothing fancy, just simple ingredients that speak for themselves. Cooked together, they become a warm, hearty dish that feels like a…

Half a carrier bag of nettle tops (200g) 100ml vegetable oil Hogweed and Alexander seed seasoning (or salt and pepper) Find our Nettle Foraging Guide here Method: Place 20ml of oil in a pan and heat, leave one leaf in the pan from the beginning to see when it begins…