Ingredients: Per person 100g ‘00’ Flour 1 egg 5 nettle tops Method for this Nettle Pasta Recipe: 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 make…
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Nettles and Wild Garlic Cheese Recipe Nettle Tossed in Wild Garlic Cheese served with roast potatoes and pork chops The three of these brilliant separate parts come together perfectly to give you a hearty meal for those wet and cold spring evenings. Serves 4 Ingredients: 200ml wild garlic pesto (or…
Ingredients: To make a large plate of nettle crisps Half a carrier bag of nettle tops (200g) 100ml vegetable oil Hogweed and alexander seed seasoning (or salt and pepper) Method for Cooking Nettle Crisps: Place 20ml of oil in a pan and heat, leave one leaf in the pan…
Half a bag of nettles, washed (about 200g) 2 large potatoes, peeled and chopped 2 onions, skinned and diced A handful of wild garlic stalks (50g) finely chopped, (or two garlic cloves) 2 Leeks, chopped Two Celery Sticks, chopped One and a half litres vegetable A little single cream (vegan…
This nettle leaf Soda Bread has a vibrant green colour and all of the mineral and nutrient benefits the common nettle provides us with – the bread itself is hearty and perfect with soup. It’s the perfect bread to make up when you’re in a rush, the dough doesn’t need…
That’s right today we’re going to be making nettle pesto out of stinging nettles – it blew my ming the first time I made it too. The nettles add a lovely earthy flavour to the pesto along with a vast reem of health benefits, minerals and vitamins. Watch our Nettle…
Stinging Nettles / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Edible Stinging Nettles are a plant that we’ve all been stung by at some point and, as such, probably remember! There are a few lookalikes, but none of them are dangerous – they just don’t taste as good. Common Names Stinging…
Birch Sap Toffee Pudding Birch Sap Syrup Recipe Birch Sap Syrup Sticky Pudding This soft sticky pudding with textured sultanas and a Birch syrup flavoured custard topping is my absolute favourite dessert. The flavours are deep, the pudding soft and sauce soaks through the whole lot leaving us with a…
Through this piece we’re going to look at the process of how to get Birch sap out of a Silver Birch tree, before making it into Birch sap syrup. It’ s one of the most exciting and interesting ingredients we have the opportunity to forage throughout the year. Let’s look…
Silver Birch / Spring / Summer / Edible Common Names Silver birch Botanical Name Betula pendula Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Fagales Family – Betulaceae Physical Characteristics for Silver birch Silver Birch is a deciduous tree growing from 15-30m tall with a canopy of 5-10m. It tends to have…