May is the best month to collect a young and very useful nettle, from which you can cook not only soup, but also other dishes.

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Only young nettles are suitable for cooking when it starts to grow and reaches a maximum of twenty centimeters. Cut it all you need, after a while it stops stinging. Also, nettles can be held for several minutes in boiling water, which also helps to get rid of the stinging. The nettle contains a large number of vitamins and trace elements. With the help of nettle, you can strengthen immunity, increase metabolism, improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, restore the nervous system, etc. However, dishes from nettles can not be eaten by pregnant women, as well as suffering from thrombophlebitis, hypertension, allergies or in diseased kidneys.

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Green soup

Ingredients: a large bundle of nettle (about 300 g), 1 onion, 1 carrot, 5 potatoes, a bunch of green onions, a bunch of dill, 1 tbsp. flour.
Method of preparation: cabbage soup can be boiled on water, and can be on chicken or meat broth. To do this, you need to boil about 400 g of pork or half a small chicken. Stash the nettle with boiling water and allow it to pour for 1-2 minutes, recline into a colander, cool. Chopped. Onion cut into cubes, grate carrots, cut into small pieces of potatoes. On vegetable oil fry onions and carrots, a few minutes before the readiness to add flour and fry for about 3 minutes. In a saucepan, boil the water, put the potatoes, add the fry and nettle. Cook until the potatoes are ready. Salt and pepper.
Tip: Serve nettle soup best with boiled eggs, sour cream. You can add a lemon slice.

Wren

Ingredients: a bundle of nettle (about 400 g), 5 potatoes, 1-2 eggs, vegetable oil, 1 onion, 1-2 cloves of garlic, salt.
Method of preparation: add water to nettle, put on fire and cook for about 10 minutes after boiling. Boil the potatoes separately. Throw the nettle in a colander, cool a bit and chop it. In a frying pan, fry the chopped onion until soft, add nettle to it. A little salt, cover and fry until the onions are ready. Boiled potatoes cut into cubes and add to the nettle. Fry about 5-7 minutes. Pour in a frying pan of raw eggs, mix. In the final, squeeze out the garlic.

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Smoothies with nettles
Ingredients: a few twigs of nettle, 1 apple, 1 banana, half a lemon, 60 ml of water.
Way of preparation: in a bowl of a blender cut apples with a peel, add the banana, squeeze out a lemon juice, put nettle leaves (it is better to take them in gloves), to pour in water. Blend everything with a blender until it is a liquid puree.

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