Cherry tomatoes differ from their large counterparts not only in the small size of the berries. Many varieties of cherry are characterized by a unique sweet taste, which is very different from the classic tomato. Anyone who has never tasted such cherry tomatoes with closed eyes may well decide that they are tasting some unusual exotic fruits. In this article, I will highlight five different cherry tomatoes that have the sweetest fruits with unusual colors.

I started growing annual flowers in the garden and on the balcony more than 20 years ago, but I will never forget my first petunia, which I planted in the country along the path. Only a couple of decades have passed, but you wonder how different the petunias of the past are from today's multifaceted hybrids! In this article, I propose to trace the history of the transformation of this flower from a simpleton into a real queen of annuals, as well as consider modern varieties of unusual colors.

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All summer residents are concerned about the question of how to grow healthy seedlings in early spring. It seems that there are no secrets here - the main thing for fast and strong seedlings is to provide them with warmth, moisture and light. But in practice, in the conditions of a city apartment or a private house, this is not so easy to do. Of course, every experienced gardener has his own proven method of growing seedlings. But today we will talk about a relatively new assistant in this matter - a propagator.

The task of indoor plants in the house is to decorate housing with their appearance, to create a special atmosphere of comfort. For this, we are ready to take care of them regularly. Leaving is not only about watering on time, although this is also important. It is necessary to create other conditions: suitable lighting, humidity and air temperature, to make a correct and timely transplant. For experienced flower growers, there is nothing supernatural in this. But beginners often face certain difficulties.

It's easy to cook tender chicken breast cutlets with champignons according to this recipe with step-by-step photos. There is an opinion that it is difficult to cook juicy and tender cutlets from chicken breast, this is not so! Chicken meat contains practically no fat, which is why it is dry. But if you add cream, white bread and mushrooms with onions to the chicken fillet, you get awesomely tasty cutlets that will appeal to both children and adults. Try adding wild mushrooms to your minced meat during mushroom season.

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Seeds of poor germination are common in the Russian market. Normally, the germination rate of cabbage should be at least 60%. It is often written on the seed bags that the germination rate is almost 100%, although in practice it is already good if at least 30% of the seeds sprout from such a package. This is why it is so important to choose the right supplier. In this article, we will consider the varieties and hybrids of white cabbage, which deservedly received the love of gardeners.

All gardeners strive to get fresh, environmentally friendly and aromatic vegetables from the garden. Relatives gladly accept home cooking from their potatoes, tomatoes and salads. But there is a way to showcase your culinary prowess even more effectively. To do this, it is worth trying to grow some aromatic plants that will give your dishes new flavors and aromas. What greens in the garden can be considered the best from a culinary point of view?

Radish salad with egg and mayonnaise, which I made from Chinese radish. This radish is often called Loba radish in our stores. Outside, the vegetable is covered with a light green peel, and in the cut there is a pink flesh that looks exotic. It was decided to focus on the smell and taste of the vegetable when cooking, and make a traditional salad. It turned out very tasty, we did not catch any "nutty" notes, but it was nice to eat a light spring salad in winter.

The graceful perfection of shining white flowers on tall pedicels and huge, shiny dark eucharis leaves give it the appearance of a classic star. In indoor culture, this is one of the most famous bulbous. Few plants are so controversial. In some, eucharises bloom and delight completely without effort, in others they do not release more than two leaves for many years and seem stunted. The Amazon lily is very difficult to classify as an unpretentious plant.

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We grow many vegetable and flower crops using seedlings, which allows us to get an earlier harvest. But it is very difficult to create ideal conditions: a lack of sunlight for plants, dry air, drafts, untimely watering, soil and seeds may initially contain pathogenic microorganisms. These and other reasons often lead to depletion, and sometimes to death of young seedlings, because they are most sensitive to unfavorable factors.

With the onset of springtime, the weakened human body, more than ever, needs a lot of vitamins. And not those that are sold in the pharmacy, but those that you can prepare yourself from the products available on your own personal plot. In the spring months, clover, nettle bushes, dandelions appear there. We need nettles! You can make a number of healthy and tasty dishes from it - pies, soups, various salads. with nettles? Its recipe is simple. In this article, we will look at a couple of its options.

First of all, I would like to remind you what the benefits of the mentioned dish will be. In addition to the fact that nettle is saturated with trace elements and vitamins, it also increases hemoglobin, and even cleanses the blood. This soup tastes like fish soup, and it is prepared in a very similar way.

Before you start solving the problem of nettle, you need to decide what products we need. By the way, don't forget to wear cotton gloves so you don't get burned. Although, if the nettle is tender and young, you can tear it with your bare hands.

Required Ingredients:

• a small armful of nettles (100-200 grams);
• a couple of carrots;
• potatoes - 3 pieces;
• one small head of onion;
• three liters of water;
• spices and salt to taste.

And now the nettle soup itself! The recipe for its preparation is as follows: peel the potatoes, cut them into cubes and put them in boiling water. While it is cooking, peel the carrots and grate them. Add to the pan. Then finely chop the onion and send it there. If there is such a desire, you can first fry the carrots and onions a little in vegetable oil.

It is advisable to rinse the nettle well with cold water and scald with boiling water in order to prevent burns during further processing. We cut everything - both stems and leaves.

We are waiting for the potatoes to be cooked. After that, pour nettles into a saucepan, salt and add spices (to taste). Cover with a lid and cook for a maximum of a couple of minutes. Then turn off the stove - that's it, the soup is ready. Can be served immediately with a little flaxseed oil. In this case, the dish will turn out to be much healthier and tastier.

Now let's consider the second option - how to make nettle soup with the addition of Adyghe cheese. For this we need the following ingredients:

• water - two liters;
• potatoes - three pieces;
• a couple of carrots;
• young nettle - a bunch;
• Adyghe cheese - 200 grams;
• coarse salt - one tablespoon;
• butter - 30 grams;
• two pieces of bay leaves and black ground pepper.
• To dress the finished dish, prepare sour cream.

Let's start cooking Nettle Soup. His recipe is as follows: we also start cooking soup with potatoes.

As soon as the broth with potatoes boils, remove the foam and lay in the carrots, cut into small cubes. Then add the bay leaf and butter. We tear off the leaves from the well-washed nettle, and remove all thick stems. We cut it not too small. We choose a nettle that is younger, so as not to pour boiling water over it (in order to preserve the maximum vitamins). If she stings, use Cubes, cut into cubes. After 10 boiling vegetables, add cheese, nettle and salt to them. Cook for another five minutes after boiling and turn off the heat.

The soup can be served on the table, sprinkled with black pepper and sour cream. Try to make soup with nettle, its recipe is quite simple and will not take much of your time. Many housewives prepare such a dish in meat broth, and add a little more sorrel at the end of cooking. But this is already a matter of taste.

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It's great that the abundant summer is generous with the harvest of not only garden, but also wild edible greens. Ramson, dandelions, runny, lungwort, nettle - this vitamin "pasture" is a sin not to use in the everyday cuisine of residents of big cities. And how delicious nettle soup with egg is!

A few days ago, dear readers, I gave you some simple recipes. Today we will continue to talk about what else can be prepared from the "burning" beauty. We will take a look at how to make young fresh nettle soup with egg.

Irina Rybchanskaya, the head of the column, brought us her homemade recipes for nettle soup with eggs. Next, Irina will lead the story.

Greetings, dear readers of Irina Zaitseva's blog! I live in a private house, away from the traffic roads. Therefore, I can have fresh young nettle dishes on the table all summer long. We often mow the lawn near the house. It grows along the edges of the meadow. As a result of mowing, it is always renewed - new tender shoots grow in the place of rough old plants. Here we prepare them in different ways.

Omelet, salad, pie, focacci-type tortillas, homemade noodles, all kinds of salads - these are just some of the dishes that I cook from nettles. And during the season we eat soup with nettles and eggs at least once a week.

There are many recipes for nettle soup. Let's start with the easiest ones, and then move on to some interesting little-known variations.

The easiest recipe. Nettle soup turns out to be completely dietary - there is no "frying" in it, which means there is no fat. “Slimming” ladies can quite afford it, if potatoes are excluded from the composition of the products. The calorie content of such a soup is low - about 40 kcal per 100 g.

Ingredients

• A large bunch of fresh young nettles (about 200 g);
• 800 ml of water, chicken or meat broth;
• two medium-sized potatoes;
• one egg;
• small bay leaf;
• ground black pepper;
• salt.

How to cook

• First rinse nettles in running water, then blanch in boiling water for a couple of minutes, cool in cold water, chop with a knife.
• Wash the egg with a brush with neutral soap, immerse it in cold water, heat to 100 ° C. Close the container with a lid, turn off the heating, leave it for ten minutes.
• Remove the egg from hot water, immediately place it in ice-cold water for a quarter of an hour, peel it off.
• Remove the peel from thoroughly washed potatoes, chop into cubes.
• Boil the liquid, send the potatoes into it, continue to cook.
• As soon as the potatoes are almost cooked, add the blanched nettles to the container. Salt, put "lavrushka", black pepper. Cook on low flame for about 90 seconds.
• Serve the nettle soup with an egg cut in half. Serve sour cream separately - let the lovers put it in the plates themselves.

My remarks

If you do not have enough "acidity" in the soup, then fill it with lemon juice.

Nettle soup with poached egg and potatoes

The poached egg soup variant was always used by my grandmother. She said it was pure pampering and a waste of wood to boil eggs separately from soup.

Ingredients

• 200 - 300 g of nettle;
• 800 ml of water or broth;
• two eggs;
• one small carrot;
• two medium potatoes;
• a small "ball" of celery;
• 30 g butter;
• small onion;
• crumbled greens;
• Bay leaf;
• ground black pepper;
• salt.

How to cook

Rinse the collected nettles in clean water.

We bring the water to 100 ° C, put the nettle in it for one or two minutes, take it out, cool it, chop it finely.

Cut the cleanly washed roots with a thin julienne, chop the peeled onion. Brown everything in slightly warmed butter.

Peel clean potatoes, wash again, cut into small pieces.

In broth or water heated to a boil, send potatoes, toasted vegetables, salt a little, add spices. Cook until potatoes and roots are practically cooked.

Break the egg into a small ladle, place in a container with potatoes and roots, carefully pour it out, add nettles. Pour the rest of the protein over the surface with threads.

Cook for 60 seconds on low flame. When serving, cut the egg so that the yolk flows out a little. Serve with herbs. Pour sour cream into a gravy boat, so that every eater, if desired, can add it to his plate.

Fresh nettle and sorrel soup with egg

Many people love sorrel soup. The combination of sorrel with nettle in soup has long been a real classic. Sorrel gives the taste a little sourness, piquancy and expressiveness.

Ingredients

• Five - six handfuls of nettles;
• medium bunch of sorrel;
• 700 ml of water or broth;
• three medium potatoes;
• two eggs;
• one carrot;
• one small root of parsley;
• 40 g butter;
• crumbled greens;
• ground black pepper;
• salt.

How to cook

1. Rinse freshly picked "burning" grass, blanch in boiling water for a couple of minutes. Chop with a knife after cooling.
2. Sort the sorrel, wash, chop.
3. Wash the potatoes, cut off the peel, chop into cubes.
4. Rinse the parsley root, rinse the carrots with a brush, cut off the peel, trim with thin julienne.
5. Chop the peeled onion with a knife.
6. Brown the roots and onion in melted butter.
7. Bring the liquid to a boil, send the potatoes, add frying after a minute.
8. When the vegetables are almost cooked, add the sorrel.
9. Cook on a low burner flame for two minutes, lay the treated nettle, black pepper, add salt. Cook for a minute and a half.
10. Boil the eggs, as indicated in the very first recipe, clean, put half for each serving, sprinkle with chopped herbs.

Soup - puree of young nettle and spinach with egg - recipe

A very delicate soup that will successfully diversify your summer menu. You can eat it warm and chilled. A handful of crackers and a spoonful of good sour cream will add satiety to your meal. I highly recommend this recipe!

Ingredients

• 200 g nettle;
• 150 g fresh or frozen spinach
• 40 g butter;
• 30 ml olive oil;
• one medium onion bulb;
• a tiny pinch of ground nutmeg;
• half a liter of water or broth;
• 220 ml sour cream or cream;
• two eggs;
• 40 g flour or starch.

How to cook

1. Rinse the collected nettles, blanch in boiling water, chop with a knife.
2. Chop the peeled onion, lightly fry in a mixture of olive and butter, add frozen or chopped fresh. Cook for two minutes.
3. Add nettles, cook for two minutes.
4. We put flour, with constant stirring, cook for a minute.
5. Pour warm boiled water or broth, stir, cook for three minutes. Add salt, a pinch of nutmeg.
6. Puree the mixture with a blender, pour cream or sour cream, stir.
7. Boil eggs hard-boiled, cool in ice water, clean. Put half in each portion of the soup.

Chicken soup with nettle, dumplings and egg

Ingredients

• One liter of chicken stock or water;
• 400 g nettle;
• one small carrot;
• 130 - 150 g chicken fillet;
• one piece of baguette without a crust;
• one egg in minced meat;
• four eggs in soup;
• 50 ml cream (20 - 33%);
• chopped greens;
• ground black pepper;
• a small pinch of nutmeg and utskho - suneli (optional);
• salt.

How to cook

1. First, prepare the minced meat for the chicken dumplings. To do this, soak a piece of baguette in cream.
2. Put the soaked baguette, egg, chicken breast, cut into small pieces into the blender bowl, salt, put black pepper, nutmeg, utskho - suneli.
3. We work until a viscous mass is obtained. If the minced meat is too liquid, then you need to add half a teaspoon of semolina and let it stand for a while so that the semolina swells from the absorbed excess liquid.
4. Peel the carrots, cut into thin julienne.
5. Blanch nettle in boiling water, chop with a knife.
6. Bring the liquid to a boil. Collect the minced meat for the dumplings with a teaspoon, with another teaspoon, smooth the mass and throw it into a saucepan with boiling liquid.
7. Cook chicken knelles for five minutes, put in carrots, cook for another four minutes, add nettles, carefully using a small ladle to send broken eggs, chopped herbs, a little salt to the soup.
8. Turn off the fire after a minute and a half. Let the soup sit for another minute and a half. When serving, break the egg with a fork so that part of the yolk flows out.

Soup with nettle and egg in milk - recipe

I suggest you watch a wonderful video in which we are offered to cook soup with nettle and egg in milk. An interesting and unusual recipe.

Rustic Nettle Egg Soup

Ingredients

• 800 ml of water or broth;
• 300 g nettle;
• 4 medium young potatoes;
• four eggs;
• one onion;
• one medium-sized carrot;
• one parsley root;
• 150 ml of good sour cream;
• bay leaf;
• any crumbled greens;
• salt.

How to cook

1. Blanch nettles, chill, chop.
2. Rinse the potatoes with a brush, cut off the peel from it, cut into wedges;
3. Cut cleanly washed, peeled carrots and parsley root into thin julienne.
4. Finely chop the peeled onion.
5. Put potatoes in the liquid brought to a boil. After a couple of minutes, add the carrots, raw chopped onion. Cook until potatoes and vegetables are almost cooked.
6. Add nettle, cook for one and a half minutes, add salt.
7. Remove one potato from the soup, mash, return to the pot.
8. Peel the pre-boiled hard-boiled eggs, remove the yolks, grind with a tablespoon of sour cream, send to the soup. Finely chop the whites, add to the container.
9. Beat the sour cream or cream with a whisk, pour into the soup. Bring to a boil again over low heat. Sprinkle herbs and serve.

Dear readers of Irina Zaitseva's blog! I hope that you will certainly use my recipes and treat yourself and your homemade delicious and healthy soup. If you have any questions about the cooking technology, write them in the comments. I will certainly answer everyone!

With invariable warmth and good wishes Rybchanskaya Irina - the author of the blog Culinary Dilettante Essay.

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With the arrival of spring, housewives are happy, because there is an opportunity to use the first gifts of nature - all kinds of greens for cooking various dishes. The list of natural "gifts" includes young nettles, the green leaves of which, after appropriate culinary processing, are used in salads or as a base for spring soups. Below are some recipes for first courses with nettles.

Nettle soup with egg - a step by step recipe with a photo

Nettle soup is a tasty, light and very healthy first course, usually prepared in the spring-summer period when the first young nettle bushes appear in the gardens and summer cottages.

The main ingredient of this soup, as the name suggests, is nettle, which is full of many useful and necessary vitamins and minerals for the human body. As for the rest of the ingredients that make up the soup, they often change, and depend on the person's personal taste preferences.

Nettle soup is cooked with or without meat, with potatoes, cabbage or rice, as well as with the addition of a variety of greens and eggs. In any case, nettle soup is delicious and nutritious.

Cooking time: 2 hours 15 minutes

Quantity: 6 servings

Ingredients

• Pork bone with meat: 500 g
• Nettles: bunch
• Potatoes: 3 pcs.
• Carrots: 1 pc.
• Bow: 1 pc.
• Fresh herbs: bunch
• Vegetable oil: for frying
• Salt, black pepper: taste
• Eggs: 2

Cooking instructions

Fresh nettle and sorrel soup recipe

Women know that spring is a great time to regain their former shape, to lose the pounds they gained over the long winter. Cooking sorrel soup with nettles will help make your diet more varied, healthy, and delicious.

Ingredients (for 2 liters of water):

• Sorrel - 1 large bunch.
• Young nettles - 1 bunch.
• Potatoes - 4 pcs.
• Dill - 5-6 branches.
• Parsley - 5-6 branches.
• Chicken egg - 1 pc. per serving.
• Sour cream to taste.

Algorithm of actions:

1. Put a pot of water on the fire, while it boils, it is necessary to wash and cut sorrel, herbs, nettle into different containers (pre-pour boiling water over it so as not to burn your hands when cutting).
2. Put peeled, cut into bars (or cubes) potatoes in boiled water. Cook until almost cooked.
3. Add sorrel and nettle, boil for three minutes.
4. Boil the eggs separately.
5. Pour into portions, put an egg, sour cream in each plate and sprinkle generously with herbs. Losing weight with this summer soup is easy and simple!

How to cook nettle soup with meat

To prepare such a dish, it will take a little time and a minimum of ingredients. But soup with a lot of vitamins will appear on the table. The only thing to remember is that the nettle must be young, so either newly appeared shoots are used, or pre-prepared (frozen) nettles.

Ingredients (based on 4 liters of water):

• Meat (pork, poultry, beef) - 800 gr. (with a bone).
• Carrots - 1 pc. medium size.
• Onion-turnip - 1 pc.
• Potatoes - 3-4 pcs. large size.
• Sorrel - 1 bunch.
• Nettle - 1 bunch.
• Salt and spices.

For a beautiful presentation:

• Greens - 1 bunch.
• Boiled chicken egg - half per serving.
• Sour cream to taste.

Algorithm of actions:

1. Boil the broth first. After boiling, remove the foam with a slotted spoon, or drain the water, rinse the meat under the tap and fill with new water. At the end of cooking, add 1 potato to the broth.
2. Grate onions and carrots, sauté in butter, add to broth.
3. Pour boiling water over the nettle and then chop. Wash sorrel thoroughly and chop.
4. When the broth is ready, strain it, cut the meat into pieces, put back. Crush the boiled potatoes in mashed potatoes, add to the soup. Cut the rest of the potatoes into slices, also send to the soup.
5. Cook until potatoes are tender. 5 minutes before the end of cooking, send the onions, fried with carrots, chopped nettle and sorrel into the pan. Add salt and seasonings.
6. Put 1 tbsp in each plate. l. sour cream, half a hard-boiled egg. Pour borscht, sprinkle with herbs. The real spring soup is ready!

Delicious nettle soup with stew

Nettle, sorrel and meat soup is very satisfying and healthy. Its only drawback is that it takes a long time to cook. If, instead of pork or beef, you take stew, then the time savings are obvious.

Ingredients:

• Stew - 1 can.
• Nettle - 1 large bunch.
• Potatoes - 4-6 pcs.
• Turnip onions - 1-2 pcs.
• Carrots - 1-2 pcs.
• Oil for frying vegetables - 2 tbsp. l.
• Salt, spices, herbs.

Algorithm of actions:

1. It is advisable to use a cauldron for making the soup. Prepare vegetables - wash, cut. Pour boiling water over nettles, cut, pour in new boiling water for steaming.
2. Heat the oil in a cauldron, add grated vegetables - onions and carrots, simmer.
3. Add stewed meat to them, pour water with nettles, put potatoes, cut into bars.
4. Season with salt and sprinkle. The readiness of the soup is determined by the readiness of the potatoes.
5. When serving, the soup can be sprinkled with herbs, add sour cream if desired.

Nettle and Dumpling Soup Recipe

Soup with meat and nettles is good, but if you add dumplings, it turns into an exquisite dish that is not ashamed to serve to guests. A little effort, and the culinary masterpiece is ready.

Ingredients (for 3 liters of water):

• Meat (any) - 600 gr.
• Nettle - 1 bunch (large).
• Potatoes - 3-5 pcs.
• Carrots and turnips - 1 pc.
• The oil in which the onions will be fried - 2-3 tbsp. l.
• Salt, spices, herbs.

Ingredients for dumplings:

• Egg - 1 pc.
• Flour - 100 gr.
• Water - 5 tbsp. l.

Algorithm of actions:

1. Soup preparation starts with broth. Put the meat in cold water, bring to a boil, remove the foam with a slotted spoon or replace the water by rinsing the meat.
2. In the almost ready-made broth, add potatoes, peeled, washed, cut in the hostess's favorite way, carrots (just grate it).
3. Simmer the onions in oil until golden brown.
4. Pour boiling water over nettles (young shoots and leaves), chop.
5. Now you can start preparing the dumplings. Knead the batter (in consistency it should resemble thick semolina porridge).
6. Put fried onions and nettles into the soup. Then, with the help of 2 teaspoons, form the dumplings, dip them into the soup. Nettles and dumplings cook very quickly. After 2-3 minutes, the soup is ready.
7. It remains to salt, season with spices and herbs! Sour cream to taste!

How to freeze soup nettles for the winter

Nettle can be added to soup not only in spring, but also at other times of the year. It keeps well in the freezer without losing its taste. There are several ways to freeze.

The simplest is the following. Collect the leaves and young shoots. Place in a container, fill with salt water. This will help clear insects and sand from the plant. Rinse under water, spread out in a thin layer, turn over constantly so that the drying process goes faster. Cut, put in containers, freeze.

Nettle soup (egg recipe) - a great option for everyone who appreciates the combination of the benefits and lightness of first courses in springtime.

That nettle- a useful plant, it has been known for a long time. She contains a wide range of vitamins: A, B1, B2, B3, C, E, K, contains carotene, ascorbic acid and a set of trace elements.

The burning grass is very useful due to its high content of vitamins and microelements.

Until recently, this plant as a component for daily food was practically not remembered. But today, thanks to the imagination of simple housewives and famous chefs, there are already a considerable number of dishes where nettle is the main ingredient: nettle soup, in particular the egg recipe, salads, omelettes, vegetable chops and even pies.

For all the usefulness of nettle, there is contraindication regarding eating it for pregnant women with varicose veins and thrombophlebitis.

When to collect young nettles

It is important to remember that grow suitable for use in food useful "weed" should be away from roads ... Astrologers recommend collecting nettle leaves at dawn on Tuesday, in the first quarter of the moon. It is said that it is at this time that its medicinal properties are especially effective. A you can find young nettles from mid-April to early May .

For making nettle soups , including, and according to the recipe with the addition of eggs, young, not yet opened leaves are used ... You need to collect them with gloves. During processing it is necessary pour boiling water over the leaves to rid the nettle of formic acid , which gives a burning sensation. Only then is the plant suitable for human consumption.

Meat nettle soup: recipe with egg

This dish cannot be called dietary, but it is perfect for a family lunch .

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet (beef or pork is suitable) - 500 g
• Potato tubers - 700 g
• Young nettle leaves - 200 g
• Onions - 200 g
• Boiled egg or raw protein - 1 pc.
• Salt and pepper

Cooking process:

1. Cut the fillet into small pieces.
2. For this recipe, you need to take a 4 liter saucepan.
3. Pour water, place a suitable piece of meat there, add some salt and leave to cook for 30 minutes (in the case of chicken fillet) and 1 hour (beef or pork).
4. Pour the nettle leaves with boiling water, let the water drain and, after cooling, grind.
5. Chop the onion, sauté in a skillet.
6. Grind the potato tubers in the form of cubes and send them to the steaming broth, cook for 5 minutes.
7. We fall asleep the prepared onion.
8. Add the nettle and leave to cook for another 8 minutes.
9. Trying the soup, you can also add salt and pepper to taste.
10. This recipe assumes the use of raw egg white or boiled egg.

Beat the protein until the first foam and slowly pour into the steaming broth, mix well.

If the egg is boiled, it is put directly into the plate with the finished dish.

Nettle soup with raw egg

This original recipe provides using lemon juice to add spice to the nettle egg soup .

Ingredients:

• Broth from chicken parts - 2 l;
• Potato tubers - 4 pcs.;
• Carrots - 1 pc.;
• Fresh nettle leaves - 200 g;
• Raw egg - 1 pc.;
• Lemon juice - ¼ teaspoon;
• Salt;
• Greens (dill or parsley).

Cooking process:

1. Strain the finished broth from chicken parts. Salt to taste.
2. We wash the nettle leaves with cold water.
3. We scald the grass with boiling water to rid it of formic acid, let the drops of water drain.
4. Grind potato tubers, carrots in the form of cubes, pour into the steaming broth and cook for 10 minutes.
5. Finely chop the nettle leaves, add them to the soup. Pour in lemon juice and continue cooking for another 8 minutes.
6. Beat the raw egg (white and yolk) until the first foam appears and add it to the soup in a thin stream, without stopping stirring.
7. The nettle soup should boil. Turn off the heat and leave with the lid covered.
8. Pour a pinch of chopped fresh herbs (dill or parsley) into the plates.

Nettle soup with boiled eggs

In this recipe tomatoes and bell peppers appear among the ingredients ... These are not standard ingredients for nettle soup, however, the unique taste and aroma of a light dish will give you pleasant emotions for the whole day.

Ingredients:

• Nettle leaves - 200 g;
• Potato tubers - 4 pcs.;
• Carrots - 2 pcs.;
• Onions - 1 pc.;
• Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.;
• Ripe tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
• Eggs - 3 pcs.;
• Sour cream;
• Pepper and salt.

Cooking process:

1. Finely chop the washed and scalded nettle leaves.
2. Grind potato tubers in traditional cubes, pour into boiling water. Cook for about 8 minutes.
3. Finely chop the Bulgarian pepper and onion, coarsely three carrots on a grater.
4. Chop the tomatoes and scald with boiling water to get rid of the skin.
5. Fry vegetables in a well-heated frying pan.
6. Pour the roast into the boiling soup.
7. We fall asleep next the chopped nettle leaves. Season with salt and pepper to taste. We continue to cook for another 2 minutes. Remove from the stove and leave the pan with the lid on.
8. Boil eggs hard-boiled. Let cool. We get rid of the shell, cut into circles.
9. Put egg circles in each plate and add sour cream to taste.

All the recipes presented will help you prepare a delicious and vitamin-rich dish. Everyone who tastes it will be able to appreciate the taste of simple nettle.

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