In ancient reference books on the collection and use of medicinal herbs it is said: If people knew about the healing properties of Nettle, they would constantly use it in their diet and treatment.". And this is not surprising, because in accordance with the Old Slovenian Speech, the modern word "Nettle" is an ancient phrase: K - Kako (Which), Ra - The Primordial Light of the Supreme Progenitor, Beer - Beer (Drinking, Drinking), i.e. K Ra Piva means " The one who drinks Ra". Therefore, pay special attention to the use of Nettle in your diet and treatment.
Nettle is a herb with an active diuretic and choleretic effect. It helps with inflammatory diseases of the joints, rheumatism, gout and various arthritis. Nettle improves hematopoiesis and eliminates anemia, as it contains a rapidly digestible iron-protein complex. Also, Nettle has the ability to regenerate the skin and mucous membranes. She is the best remedy for stopping blood, because. The hemostatic effect of nettle is associated with its high content of vitamin K.
To enjoy the amazing fresh and pleasant taste of young Nettle, it does not need to be scalded with boiling water, killing its aura and vitamins. It just needs to be gently crushed with a crush with a minimum amount of sea salt.
Not only young leaves and the upper part of the stems of Nettle are used for food, but also inflorescences, and even Nettle seeds, which have a nutty flavor and are very nutritious, they are added to sauces, when preparing vegetable dishes with cheese and dough. Nettle seeds are harvested when its inflorescences begin to turn yellow.
From the young leaves and stems of Nettle and White Lamb you can cook many delicious dishes: soups, tortillas, samsas, pies, omelettes, rolls, green noodles, green cakes, muffins, cakes and ice cream. In cooking, there are several thousand recipes for dishes from Nettle.
The consciousness of a sane person has the ability to read the “instruction” from the aura of plants for their best use and assimilation in order to transfer all the Zhivatmas of the plant to a higher evolutionary stage, including them in the human body. For this reason, recipes for raw foodists - I put in the article in the first place. After the raw food dishes, recipes for the preparation of thermally processed food from Nettle will be offered.
Salad "Green Summer".
>A handful of leaves of dandelion, sorrel, plantain, nettle and green onion, rinse well and dry. Cut in small pieces. Add chopped radish, 2 ripe avocados and olives. Season with soy sauce with the juice of 1 tangerine.
Pesto "Nettle with nuts".
>Grind fresh young nettles to the juice. Finely chop it. Grind 100 gr. walnuts, it is better to grind, it is also delicious to add a few tablespoons of chopped almonds, soaked in water in advance, mix everything together, add finely chopped onions, a bunch of green basil, salt, grind well. You can additionally decorate the taste with cilantro. Serve with raw pressed vegetable oil.
Soup with nettle "raw food".
>Composition of products:
- bunch of fresh lettuce
- a bunch of nettles (try a small one first),
- 1 cucumber
- half a cup of water
- 1 st. a spoonful of lemon juice
- garlic clove,
- sea salt to taste
- 1/2 or whole avocado
- 1 teaspoon dried seasonings (Italian, Provence, etc.).
Mix everything in a blender until smooth. Enjoy the taste and benefits!
You can experiment with the composition of soup products. Instead of cucumber, you can use zucchini or tomatoes, and instead of garlic - wild garlic. If you add 1-2 tablespoons of raw-pressed vegetable oil to the soup, then the soup will be just as tasty without the avocado (if you don’t have it). In the composition of this soup (if you used tomatoes), you can add carrots, celery, Jerusalem artichoke and a little mustard; at the same time, lemon juice can not be added. If you add a bunch of sorrel instead of lettuce leaves, you will get a wonderful green borscht. Pleasant and useful improvisations to you!
Green Nettle Soup.
>Nettle young shoots are good for making green soups. For 5-7 pcs. dry mushrooms take a bunch of young Nettle, a little sorrel, celery or parsley roots, ginger root, carrots, 1 pc. tapinambur, onion, herbs, ground spices, bay leaf, 1 tablespoon of flour and a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Dry mushrooms should be soaked overnight. Mushrooms should be washed, cut into cubes, put in a pot of water and put on fire. Cut potatoes and put in water with mushrooms, cook until potatoes are ready. Nettle and sorrel leaves are crushed. You can grind them in a food processor. Tinder carrots, chop greens, roots, parsley and onions. Carrots and onions are fried in vegetable oil, a little flour is added and fried for a couple more minutes.
After that, fried vegetables, nettle, sorrel and all chopped herbs, as well as spices, are put in water with mushrooms and potatoes. Salt the soup to taste, let it boil and leave it on the fire for a couple more minutes. Green soups are served with sour cream and homemade cheese.
Green soups from Nettle are very tasty and healthy, especially green cabbage soup from fresh May Nettle, it contains the most useful substances. Add homemade cheese and homemade sour cream, 2-3 slices of lemon to the soup so that the broth does not darken during the cooking process. To prevent vitamins from being destroyed, it is not recommended to boil nettles for a long time.
FOR RAW EATERS: you do everything the same, but do not fry or boil anything, therefore, flour and vegetable oil for frying are not needed. The resulting vegetable mixture is heated to 35-40 degrees, so as not to destroy the aura of freshly cut plants, to preserve vitamins, but at the same time, to allow sour cream to dissolve well in the soup.
Green soup with Nettle and mushroom dumplings.
>Cooking dumplings. To do this, boil the mushrooms for 5-7 minutes, then grind the mushrooms in a blender in mashed potatoes. Add homemade sour cream, dill and parsley, flour, pepper and salt. The dough should be as thick as thick sour cream. Dip the dumplings into the boiling soup with a teaspoon. When they pop up, they're done.
Nettle pies.
>First, it is necessary to boil about 100-200 gr. for two to three minutes. Nettles in slightly brackish water. Next, turn off the stove, drain the water through a sieve and grind the scalded Nettle. Now we take and interfere with it with 100-200 gr. pre-cooked millet porridge. We sculpt pies from the resulting sticky mass and bake them in the oven. These nettle pies can also be fried in a pan in vegetable oil.
Nettle salad with spring garlic.
>300 gr. young leaves of Nettle, 200 gr. sorrel and plantain, 50 gr. dandelion leaves, 100 gr. rinse the green onions well, dry, add 2-3 cloves of garlic, finely chop or pass through a meat grinder, mix everything. Then, put in a plate, mix with homemade cheese cut into small pieces, garnish with radish slices, lemon slices, pour sunflower oil or homemade sour cream, salt.
Mushroom dumplings with Nettle.
>For the test you will need: 500 gr. cornmeal, 100 gr. wheat flour, 100 gr. homemade sour cream.
For filling: 1 kg. Nettles, 50 gr. green onions, 100 gr. dry mushrooms.
For the filling, finely chop the nettle, add pre-soaked mushrooms, chopped and fried in vegetable oil with onions in a pan, finely chopped green onions, salt, ground black pepper, ground coriander, dill, basil, cilantro to taste. To mix everything.
Mix corn flour with wheat flour, knead the dough in hot water with the addition of homemade sour cream or butter.
Roll out the dough thinly and cut out circles using a glass. Put the filling in the middle of each circle, pinch the edges.
Dip dumplings in boiling salted water, cook for 5 minutes. Serve with spices, butter or homemade sour cream.
You can make lazy dumplings: just roll out a thin dough, put minced greens with mushrooms on top of it and roll it into a roll. It is very important to pinch the long edge well and then cut this roll into columns. Dumplings are lazy, so they do not require long modeling.
Ready-made lazy dumplings can be boiled in boiling water or steamed, or you can put sliced rolls in a deep frying pan, on a “cushion” of fried carrots with onions, tomatoes and sweet peppers, add a little vegetable oil, homemade sour cream and a little water on top. Then cover with a lid and simmer over low heat until tender. Arrange the ready-made lazy dumplings on plates and sprinkle with herbs.
Dumplings with nettle and potatoes.
>Knead the dough from flour and water, as usual for dumplings. Let it lie down for 30-40 minutes, then roll it into a layer 1.5-2 mm thick.
We make a magnificent fragrant filling for dumplings:
Boil a few potatoes in their skins. Peel and mash potatoes. Connect 300 gr. finely chopped young nettle leaves, mashed potatoes, 50 gr. chopped fried onions, basil, dill, thyme, oregano, paprika, coriander, ginger, black pepper and salt mix. We form dumplings with a nettle-potato vitamin filling and cook them in boiling salted water. Serve with olive or linseed oil and lemon juice.
Dumplings stuffed with wild plants.
>For minced meat in the spring, use wild herbs: Nettle, clover, wood lice, cuff, plantain, gout (snyd - eatables) and others. Grind the available greens, add carrots, parsley root or celery; garlic, onion, ginger root; spicy herbs: dill and parsley, basil and celery, cilantro. Add some grated cheese.
To prepare the dough, take flour and homemade sour cream, add a spoonful of vegetable oil and knead a stiff dough. Then we roll out the dough with a rolling pin, lay out the filling and make dumplings.
We throw ready dumplings into boiling salted water with bay leaf. As soon as the dumplings float, take them out of the water with a slotted spoon. Unlike meat dumplings, herbal dumplings do not cook for a long time, you just need to cook the dough. Healthy, tasty and satisfying! Wild plants contain a lot of vegetable protein, as well as vitamins and fiber.
Pilaf with Nettle and Asparagus.
>Wash the nettle and finely chop it. Wash the rice in several waters and boil. Fry finely chopped onion and a little asparagus in vegetable oil, add tomato, soy sprouts, boiled rice, homemade sour cream. Mix everything and lightly fry, stirring occasionally.
Serve Pilaf with Nettles and Asparagus to the table hot with slices of fresh cucumber.
Food consumption: nettle leaves - 200-400 gr., onions - 1 head, tomato - 1 pc., asparagus, oil - 2-3 tablespoons, rice - 1 cup, homemade sour cream 0.5 cups.
Scrambled eggs with Nettle.
>Make sure with the owner of the chicken that she laid eggs that were not fertilized by a rooster in order to avoid the karma of killing a chick (it often happens that domestic hens lay themselves when there is no rooster among them at all). Chickens in poultry farms saturate their eggs with the energy of suffering: anger, fear, hatred for people and neighboring chickens, because. they are kept in cramped cages with artificial lighting, not allowing them to sleep. In addition, chickens are "stuffed with chemistry" by injection and added to the feed to avoid epizootics. Therefore, store-bought eggs are saturated with chemicals and the energy of suffering. Sane people do not eat store-bought eggs.
Finely chopped 150 gr. nettles. Saute 1 chopped onion in a frying pan with hot oil. Put chopped Nettle there, add finely chopped cilantro, thyme, salt, add spices and mix well. Pour over two beaten eggs and lightly fry on the stove, or bring to readiness in the oven.
Soup with Nettle and Chinese cabbage.
>In a boiling broth with mushrooms (2 liters), put finely chopped and fried onions, a couple of parsley roots, 1 tablespoon of cooked rice (wash it, put it in boiling water for 2-3 minutes, and then put it on a sieve ). Add 2-3 coarsely chopped Chinese cabbage leaves, 1 carrot, diced.
15 minutes before the end of cooking, put 150 gr. well washed and chopped young Nettle, bay leaf, ground coriander, black pepper, cilantro and thyme. When serving, sprinkle the soup with parsley.
Pizza with nettle and mushrooms.
>Roll out puff pastry without yeast. Put it on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil and grease with homemade sour cream on top. Put chopped dill, nettle and parsley on the dough, as well as diced tomato, boiled and chopped mushrooms, onions, and homemade cheese cubes. Sprinkle grated cheese on top of the pizza, and spread homemade sour cream on top. Bake the pizza in the oven for 30-35 minutes.
Nettle frittata with mushrooms, carrots and potatoes.
>Frittata (or fritata) is an Italian omelet with potatoes, vegetables, herbs and onions. It is cooked on the stove, then brought to readiness in the oven, roasting vegetables with whipped domestic unfertilized egg under cheese. Frittata is a dish for those who like to experiment.
Ingredients for 2 servings:
- 1/2 piece carrots,
- 1/2 piece onion,
- 1 PC. young potatoes,
- 3-4 pcs. mushrooms. You can take any mushrooms, both fresh and pickled. If using dry mushrooms, soak them in water for several hours before putting them in the pan with the vegetables.
- 40-50 ml. homemade milk for each domestic unfertilized a raw egg,
- 1-2 pcs. domestic unfertilized eggs,
- 100 gr. young nettle leaves,
- salt,
- sprigs of fresh dill,
- vegetable oil.
Wash the nettle well and let the water drain by placing the nettle sprigs on a dry towel. Peel potatoes, carrots and onions. Onion, dill and mushrooms cut into cubes.
Very finely chop the nettle with a knife, and cut the carrots and potatoes into cubes.
Put the mushrooms, carrots, onions and potatoes in a pan, fry the vegetables, stirring occasionally. Grate the cheese on a medium grater.
Then, add chopped Nettle, season vegetables and herbs with salt and spices. Mix everything thoroughly, continuing to simmer in a pan with vegetable oil.
Prepare a 12 cm x 12 cm baking dish. If there is no suitable baking dish for 2 servings, then take a cardboard box with a bottom of 12 cm x 12 cm, and line the inside of the box with 2 layers of foil, giving it hard form. Then, take the foil out of the carton when this mold is filled with vegetables, and place the foil-wrapped vegetables into the oven. If there is a form, it is more convenient to use it.
Whisk domestic unfertilized raw egg with milk and pour into the pan. Mix everything with a wooden spoon, continuing to keep the pan on fire. It is necessary that the egg "grabs".
Then, put the contents of the pan in foil and place in the oven for 7-8 minutes.
Remove the nettle frittata from the oven and, without removing it from the foil, sprinkle grated cheese on top and place it back in the oven to bake until the cheese crust is golden brown.
Serve with finely chopped greens sprinkled on top.
Nettle fritters with carrots and potatoes.
>Carrots are a very healthy vegetable rich in vitamins, and in terms of carotene content, carrots surpass almost all fruits and vegetables. These pancakes are not only very tasty, but also incredibly healthy in a combination of carrots, nettles and new potatoes. Wild plants are rich in vitamins, proteins, mineral salts, amino acids and antioxidants.
Enzymes contained in wild plants remove decay products from the body, speed up metabolism and slow down the aging process. Chlorophyll is involved in the restoration of hemoglobin and leukocytes in the blood, connective tissues, strengthens the immune system, increases the level of oxygen in the blood, promotes tissue repair, maintains a healthy intestinal flora, enhances milk production in nursing mothers, removes excess drugs, fights toxins, serves as a prevention caries.
Composition of products:
- 1 PC. carrot,
- 1 PC. onion,
- 2 pcs. young potatoes,
- 2-3 tbsp. spoons of flour
- 1 PC. domestic unfertilized egg,
- 100 grams of young nettle,
- salt,
- ground spices: coriander, nutmeg, chili, ginger,
- vegetable oil.
Wash the nettle well and let the water drain. Peel potatoes, carrots and onions. Onion cut into cubes.
Very finely chop the nettle with a knife, and grate the carrots and potatoes on a medium grater.
Mix grated carrots and potatoes, add chopped Nettle, flour and raw domestic unfertilized egg, season vegetables and herbs with salt and spices. To stir thoroughly.
Bake nettle pancakes in a preheated pan greased with vegetable oil.
Fry nettle pancakes with carrots and potatoes on both sides.
You can serve this dish with homemade sour cream. This dish is served hot, decorated with sprigs of greens.
Green pancakes from Nettle, green dough with Nettle.
>Bright, fragrant, green pancakes are obtained by adding nettle puree to the dough.
Composition of products for green dough:
- 0.5 cup homemade milk
- 1/3 cup flour
- 1 PC. domestic unfertilized egg,
- 100 grams of young nettle,
- salt,
- soda quenched with vinegar
- vegetable oil.
Wash the nettle well and let the water drain. Strip the nettle leaves from the stems.
Grind nettle leaves with a knife or in a food processor and mix with raw domestic unfertilized egg.
From flour, milk, nettle greens puree with egg - knead the green dough, add salt, a spoonful of vegetable oil and baking soda. Thoroughly mix nettle green dough.
Bake green pancakes from Nettle on a heated frying pan greased with vegetable oil.
To the table Green pancakes can be served with sour cream, jam or butter.
You can add vanilla and a spoonful of sugar to the green dough, and then bake sweet nettle pancakes. They can be served with dandelion flower syrup or rose petal syrup.
Potato casserole with nettle and mushrooms.
>Composition of products:
- 3 pcs. potato,
- 1 bunch tender young nettles,
- 200 grams of mushrooms. You can take champignons, or other mushrooms, you can oyster mushrooms, shiitake, porcini, chanterelles,
- 1 PC. onion,
- 2 pcs. domestic unfertilized eggs,
- 1 st. l. sour cream,
- dill, parsley, oregano,
- salt, pepper, spices,
- vegetable oil for frying,
Boil potatoes, peel and mash. Finely dice the onion and mushrooms. Grind the nettle into a puree.
Eggs domestic unfertilized beat with sour cream, chopped herbs, salt and pepper. Fry the mushrooms with onions and nettles, add them to the mashed potatoes. Mix, add beaten eggs, herbs and spices.
Put the mass of potatoes with mushrooms and herbs into a mold, sprinkle with grated cheese on top and place in the oven for baking until cooked at a temperature of 180 C.
Gnocchi Potato Dumplings with Nettle and Onion.
>Gnocchi - small "lumps" of oval or round shape, made from a special dough: a mixture of mashed potatoes with flour, or a mixture of spinach or Nettle with flour, and then eggs are added there domestic unfertilized and grated parmesan.
Composition of products:
- 2-3 pcs. - 230 gr. potato,
- 50 gr. a bunch of tender young nettles,
- 20 gr. ginger root,
- 1 PC. domestic unfertilized egg,
- 1 PC. - 50 gr. onion,
- 3-5 art. a spoonful of wheat flour
- salt, nutmeg, allspice black and red pepper, coriander, thyme greens, oregano to taste.
Cooking:
Wash nettle thoroughly. Boil potatoes, cool and peel. Peel the onion and ginger root.
Onion, nettle, ginger root, potato, raw domestic unfertilized egg, mash into a puree with a food processor.
We spread the mass on the table, powdered with flour. Add salt, flour, spices to the nettle and knead the nettle-potato dough. If necessary, add more flour.
The dough should be soft and tender, sprinkle the table again with flour, knead the finished dough on the table, form into a “sausage” and cut into small pieces - dumplings.
Cook vegetable broth: fry the onion until golden brown in vegetable oil. Boil water, add diced raw carrots, fried onions, salt, pepper, herbs and bay leaf.
Gently lower the finished dumplings into the boiling vegetable broth, gently stir with a spoon, cook, and when the dumplings float, cook them for another 1-2 minutes, then remove with a slotted spoon, serve the dumplings with fried onions or mushroom sauce.
Potato zrazy with nettle and mushrooms.
>Composition of products:
- 2 pcs. potato,
- a bunch of delicate nettles,
- 120 gr. mushrooms,
- 1/2 piece onion,
- ginger root,
- 1 teaspoon starch
- 1 - 2 tbsp. spoons of flour
- 1 PC. domestic unfertilized egg,
- sunflower oil (for frying)
- salt, ground black pepper, chili, coriander, nutmeg, dill and cilantro to taste.
Cooking:
Boil potatoes until tender and peel. Wash the nettle thoroughly and put on a towel, peel the onion and ginger root.
Finely chop the onion and mushrooms. Fry the onion in vegetable oil until half cooked and add chopped Nettle, mushrooms, coriander, dill and pepper to it.
Mash boiled potatoes, add a little starch, flour, spices, ginger, salt and domestic unfertilized egg. To mix everything.
Form cakes from the resulting mass. In the center of each tortilla, put a stuffing of fried mushrooms with Nettle, onion and spices.
Form cutlets and roll in oatmeal flakes or breadcrumbs, put in a frying pan heated with oil, fry on both sides until golden brown.
Serve ready-made zrazy with homemade sour cream or mushroom sauce and herbs.
Vareniki with nettle, cottage cheese and cumin.
>Ingredients for the test:
- 400 gr. flour,
- 100 ml. water,
- 1 PC. domestic unfertilized egg,
- salt to taste.
The composition of the filling products:
- 120-150 gr. fresh nettles,
- 170-200 gr. curd,
- 50 gr. crushed walnuts,
- 1 bunch of green onions
- 2-3 cloves of garlic,
- salt, cumin, pepper to taste,
- butter or homemade sour cream to taste.
Filling preparation:
The greens of the young Nettle are washed well, let the water drain, remove the hard stems, leaving the upper ones soft. We cut the nettle and fill it with drinking water for 5 minutes. During this time, the Nettle will settle and give juice. Then, pour the juice into a clean bowl. It is used as a drink, as it contains a lot of vitamins, and we transfer the crushed nettle leaves and stems to a separate bowl.
We wash the green onions, dry them from water, chop and add to the chopped Nettle. Chop the garlic and combine with green onions and nettles. Add cottage cheese. Mix all the ingredients for the filling, add salt and spices to taste.
Test preparation:
We combine all the ingredients for the dough and knead the dough. If necessary, you can add more flour, kneading the dough until it falls behind your hands. Then, cover the dough with cellophane, leaving it to rest for 30 minutes. The dough should be firm and elastic.
We prepare dumplings with Nettle: sprinkle the table with flour, put the dough from the bowl on a table powdered with flour and once again knead it slightly with your hands. Then we roll it out thinly with a rolling pin and use a glass to squeeze out circles on the test layer.
We make dumplings: put the filling in the center of each circle and connect the edges of the circles. We manually fasten the edges so that the filling does not crawl out of the edges, and so that the dumplings do not stick together during the cooking process. We shift the formed dumplings to a baking sheet, lightly crushed with flour. Then we put a pot of water on the fire, after the water boils, put dumplings in it.
Gently mix the dumplings, cook. When dumplings float to the surface of the water, take them out with a slotted spoon and serve with butter or homemade sour cream.
In dumplings with Nettle, instead of cottage cheese, you can add finely chopped mushrooms, wood lice, fried onions, grated boiled potatoes, cheese or garlic. These products will give our dish a special taste.
Lasagne with nettle and eggplant.
>Composition of products:
- 1/2 pack of lasagne sheets, prepared according to package directions there are plates that do not require cooking,
- 1 bunch of minced nettle,
- 170 gr. eggplant,
- 80 gr. tomatoes,
- 150 gr. grated hard cheese.
Composition of products dTo prepare the bechamel sauce for lasagna:
- 400 ml. home milk,
- 50 gr. butter,
- 3-4 st. spoons of flour
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- salt, dill, parsley, oregano - to taste.
We cut the eggplant into thin strips, put it on a wire rack and place it in the oven, bake for 10 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Preparing bechamel sauce:
Lightly fry flour in butter, stirring constantly. Add homemade milk, mix so that there are no lumps. Cook bechamel sauce with constant stirring until thickened. Add salt and nutmeg, mix the sauce and turn off the heat.
Pour a little bechamel sauce into a lasagna baking dish, spread it over the surface of the form. Lay out the lasagne sheets parallel to each other along the bottom of the mold. From above we distribute the strips of eggplants, then the nettle crushed in puree and fill them with bechamel sauce, sprinkle with a part of the grated cheese. Lay the lasagna on top of the cheese again.
On top we put eggplants again and mashed nettles, and on them again bechamel sauce and grated cheese. In the next row, after eggplant and chopped Nettle, we also lay out chopped tomatoes, sprinkle with dill, parsley, oregano. The last row of lasagna plates is simply poured with bechamel sauce and sprinkled with grated cheese on top.
We put the vegetarian lasagna with Nettle and eggplant in the oven for 30 minutes to bake at 180 degrees, then 10 minutes at 220, so that the cheese on top is browned.
Everyone knows that nettle grows like a weed. But not everyone knows that it is very useful. With great success, nettles are used in cooking, cosmetology and medicine.
As a medicinal herb, nettle has been known since the ancient times of Avicenna, who described in detail what it is - nettle.
The beneficial properties of such a weed have become known right from the 17th century. Today, nettles are specially grown and cultivated in a number of European countries. It has become widespread in the northern and southern hemispheres of Europe.
Nettle contains a large chemical composition of trace elements. For example, vitamin K, which has an excellent effect on blood clotting, has, among other things, an anti-inflammatory effect. He also treats blood vessels with ease. Nettle contains a lot of calcium in the form of carbonate, it does not pose any burden to the kidneys, even if it is ingested in increased quantities.
In addition, nettle is also useful in the content of formic acid, some flavonoids, tannins. Previously, if a person had frostbite, they wrapped him in a nettle blanket, which often saved him from death. Nettles contain a lot of protein, even twice as much as regular legumes.
Nettle is also famous for the rapid elimination of various toxins from the human body. This is due to the content of cellulose and lignin polysaccharides in it, as well as vitamins of groups B, C, E, K. Beta-carotene, as you know, increases visual acuity, but it is contained not only in carrots, but all trace elements strengthen the body from the inside.
To understand specifically what are the beneficial properties of nettle, it is worth considering carefully its chemical composition. Only 100 g of nettle contains 0.5 g of fat, 3.7 g of protein, 3.1 g of fiber, 5.4 g of carbohydrates, all of the above vitamins. Nettle contains calcium, selenium, zinc, iron, phosphorus, copper, chlorine. Nettle improves blood clotting, has an anti-inflammatory effect, can eliminate dark circles under the eyes, and has a healing effect on all diseases of the liver and bladder.
Nettle has useful properties for people with chronic diseases, atherosclerosis, tuberculosis. With a small body resistance, i.e. low immunity, the plant stimulates the metabolism of proteins and carbohydrates in the body. If an urgent stop of bleeding is required, then the healing properties of nettle will help. It has a hemostatic effect due to its pungency, and also eliminates bacteria. Nettle can be safely applied to abscesses, wounds and ulcers.
Nettle relieves pain during menstruation, especially when heavy. With the help of this plant, you can reduce blood loss, make the menstrual cycle normal, it also has a huge antimicrobial effect.
Nettle leaves also contain chlorophyll in its pure form, without any admixture of other pigments. Chlorophyll has a strong stimulating and tonic effect on the body: it improves metabolism, increases the tone of the intestines, uterus, cardiovascular system and respiratory center, and also stimulates granulation and epithelialization of affected tissues, which also provides a wound healing effect of nettle.
Nettle contains secretin, which normalizes metabolism, stimulates the formation of insulin and thereby leads to a decrease in the amount of sugar in the blood, which is certainly necessary for people suffering from diabetes. known choleretic and diuretic properties of nettle, which allows it to be used in diseases of the liver, kidneys: gallbladder and gastrointestinal tract.
Since we are talking about the stomach, I want to emphasize once again that nettle is an edible plant and can be used in salads, green smoothies and other raw food dishes.
Recipes for raw food dishes with nettles.
Green cocktail.
Compound:
Nettle
Banana
Apple (or pear, cranberry, kiwi)
Water
Blend all ingredients in a blender.
Beetroot with nettle
Ingredients: 1 cup finely chopped nettle, 1 small beetroot, 2 cloves of garlic, any raw mayonnaise (from nuts or seeds). Recipe for raw mayonnaise: Wash and grate the beets, crush the garlic or finely chop. Soak young nettles for 1 hour in cold water, then wash thoroughly, chop finely, combine with beets and crushed garlic. Season with raw mayonnaise, add Himalayan salt to taste.
Salad "Joy"
Ingredients: nettle - 20g, sorrel - 20g, parsley - 20g, dill - 20g, green onion - 20g, garlic - 2g, olive oil -8g, Himalayan salt.
Chopped nettle leaves and washed parsley, dill, green onion, sorrel are finely chopped, chopped garlic is added, Himalayan salt is added to taste, seasoned with olive oil.
Lots of delicious, easy and affordable raw food recipes here:
Bon appetit and stay healthy!
About nettle.
Still, greenery is the head of everything. One of my mistakes in the ongoing transition to live food was that I underestimated green smoothies after all this is a thing. As I recently found out.
It would seem that greenery can only be found in summer. No. Young sprouts of nettles can be found until December, and in our area, with our winter, even in December. A friend of mine tells me, they say, we went for nettles, and it was in mid-December. I, they say, what kind of nettle are you, what is the girl talking about? It turned out, indeed, in mid-December, one could still find small sprouts of nettles. In general, green nettle smoothies are no different from other green smoothies, if you have a good blender, nothing will pinch.
I myself was not familiar with nettles. No, well, I saw in the movie “Welcome or No Trespassing” an episode where they dived into nettles, well, I read in books, but I didn’t grow up like that. There was another fairy tale, where a girl pretended to be dumb and wove nettle shirts for her brothers. We have nettles and how it turned out, I asked my mother where nettles grow with us, and she remembered, and when she took raspberry cuttings from a friend, she also took a couple of nettle bushes. Now I have nettles, and in the very spring I will start drinking green smoothies, and maybe then I will switch to a raw food diet. And by the way, my washcloth is now also made of nettles.
And finally, what is written about Zeland's nettle "in the Living Kitchen":
"Replaces seven doctors." Previously, threads, ropes, durable fabrics, nets were made from its fibers, as well as amulets were made and damage was removed. A very valuable food plant, especially in spring. Deserves special attention. In difficult years, she saved many people from starvation. According to the content of vitamins and minerals - the queen of all plants. In terms of calcium content - a record holder. Nutritionally it is not inferior to legumes. Natural preservative (for example, fish can be preserved by wrapping in nettles). Effectively restores and purifies the blood. Antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, wound healing agent. It restores the functions of vital organs, increases resistance and normalizes the functioning of the body as a whole. Increases lactation in nursing. Contraindicated in those who suffer from increased blood clotting, with kidney disease, pregnant women, and also during menstruation. The rest is a top-class food culture, both for people and for animals and birds."
P.S. Ripped the snow over the nettles. There are already small sprouts. Looks like I'll be drinking green smoothies in March.
P.P.S.
xxx: Healthy eating is a must to filter the tap water before brewing Doshirak.
Don't let your life be just a dead ritual. Let there be moments of the inexplicable. Let there be some things that are mysterious, for which you cannot give any reason. Let there be some actions that make people think that you are a little hello. A person who is one hundred percent normal is dead. A little madness next to sanity is always a great joy. Keep doing crazy things too. And then meaning is possible.
Osho
Until quite recently, I had vague notions about what is useful nettle.
There were only memories from childhood, when for the first time, out of ignorance, I climbed into the bushes with a "prickly" and burned myself.
Before the raw food diet, I didn’t even think about what benefits it could have in general.
And even when I began to practice a raw food diet, this wonderful plant still remained something incomprehensible and unknown to me. But a couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to get out with familiar raw foodists to the edge of Kyiv, where there was gorgeous nature and nettles grew in large quantities.
Naturally, there was a lot more that a raw foodist could choose for himself, and just a person who eats healthy food, but more on that in. And, infrom there I learned what real benefits it has for a person, and a raw foodist in particular.
And now about what nettle is useful for - in detail
>I was told that what nettle is useful for is a large amount of calcium and protein. Especially useful are young sprouts, about 7-10 cm in height.
They can be plucked with bare hands and eaten. True, before use, the plant must be rubbed in the hands so that it does not burn the oral cavity. The taste of the young plant is very pleasant and somewhat reminiscent of dill.
In the course of our conversation, I learned some, and also what dishes can be cooked using this “miracle herb”.Arriving home, I independently searched and found information: what is the use of this plant for our body.
For example, nettle is also useful for its content of vitamins B, C, K, E. So, if you want to stock up on a good dose of these elements or restore those lost after winter, then approximately 50-100 grams daily will be enough for you. Or at least a day later.
And what can a raw foodist find useful for himself? As I said above, what nettle is useful for is a supply of protein, which is abundant in this plant. Some nutritionists even include it in a complete diet, as it approaches in quantity.
Therefore, I want to please you with the fact that not only will you pamper your body with a wide range of vitamins, but also strengthen it with full-fledged protein structures.
Also, both for a raw foodist and for any other person - this plant will help in cleansing. Due to the content of a large number of natural compounds that contribute to cleansing - with systematic use, you can thoroughly clean your blood and organs from toxins and toxins.
Young spring nettle contains a large amount of tannins, organic acids and chlorophyll containing magnesium.
Stinging nettle - she rich in vitamins: carotene, calcium carbonate, vitamins K, B-2, C. Very young spring shoots are richest in ascorbic acid. The leaves contain a large amount starch, sugars, tannins, organic acids. Rich nettle and chlorophyll containing magnesium. Nettle is one of the few plants rich in calcium.
When preparing dishes from nettles, one should not forget that vitamin K is not useful for everyone. Frequent consumption of nettles in food causes increased blood clotting, therefore, in old age, as well as those suffering from thrombophlebitis and varicose veins, it is better not to abuse nettles. You can weaken the hemostatic effect of nettle by adding herbs to dishes from it that reduce blood clotting, such as sweet clover.
Nettle with butter and eggs
Ingredients (for 4 servings): 1 kg nettle, 4 onions, 6-8 tbsp. melted butter, 4 eggs, 8 sprigs of green cilantro, salt - to taste.
Boil the nettle and squeeze lightly. Stew the chopped onion until soft in 3-4 tablespoons of oil, put nettle, finely chopped cilantro, oil, salt in it. Mix everything well and simmer again. Pour in the beaten eggs and bring to the boil.
Cooking time 20 min.
Wren
Compound: fresh nettle, potato, vegetable oil, onion, garlic, egg, salt, spices.
Prepare a decoction of fresh nettle: put the herb in cold water, bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes over medium heat. Fry nettles with onions in oil, adding salt, in a pan, preferably under a lid, until the onions are fully cooked, then add boiled potatoes, fry for another five minutes, then beat in an egg, and at the very end add crushed garlic. Spices taste good, but allspice, anise and basil work well.
frankfurt green salad
Compound: greens, 2 boiled eggs, 1 small onion, curdled milk (sunflower oil or other), salt and pepper.
Two handfuls of greens (dandelion, nettle, peppermint, borage, sorrel, dill, parsley, green onion or something else to taste) chop or chop finely, add chopped eggs and finely chopped onion. Refueling: 1 tbsp. a spoonful of curdled milk, pepper and salt to taste (or any other).
Spinach with nettles and croutons
Compound: 100 g of spinach and nettle, 15 g of onion, 75 g of meat juice, 10 g of butter, 3 g of wheat flour, 60 g of egg porridge, pepper, nutmeg; for croutons: 25 g of wheat bread, 25 g of milk, 1 egg, 2 g of sugar, 8 g of butter.
Rinse young spring nettles or tops of summer nettles with 4-5 upper leaves that have not yet become coarsened several times in cold water, then immerse in boiling water, cook for 3-5 minutes and drain in a colander. Then squeeze and chop with a knife or pass through a meat grinder with a rare grate. Do the same with fresh spinach.
Put the nettle and spinach in one bowl, add the browned onion, pour in the meat juice and simmer in a sealed bowl for 10-15 minutes. When the greens become soft, season them with salt, pepper and nutmeg, add wheat flour mixed with butter and, stirring, heat until thickened. When serving, put the spinach in a bowl or porcelain salad bowl, in the middle put a heap of a tablespoon of egg porridge or an egg boiled in a bag.
Bukhara pilaf with nettle without meat
Compound: rice and carrots - 400 g each, raisins and onions - 200 g each, oil - 160 g, young nettle greens - 50 g, salt to taste.
Peeled carrots, onions are cut into strips and sautéed in vegetable oil until half cooked. Washed rice soaked in cold salty water, sorted and washed raisins, chopped young nettles are poured into the dishes, poured with hot water and boiled with the lid closed until tender.
Combined nettle salad
Compound: 30 g nettle leaves, 20 gr. primrose leaves, 20 gr. young dandelion leaves, 10 gr. onion, 30 gr. carrots, 20 gr. hell.
Onions, carrots, horseradish are ground on a grater or meat grinder, add 50 gr. sour cream, mixed with herbs and placed in the center of the plate. Nettle, primrose, and dandelion leaves are beautifully laid along its edges.
Beetroot with nettle
Compound: 1 cup finely chopped nettle, 1 small beetroot, 2 garlic cloves, mayonnaise.
Wash the beets and boil for 1.5-2 hours, cool, cut into thin slices, crush the garlic or finely chop. Soak young nettles for 1 hour in cold water, then wash thoroughly, chop finely, combine with boiled beets and crushed garlic. Season with mayonnaise, salt to taste.
Nettle stew with vegetables
Compound: 1 cup chopped nettle leaves, 1 carrot, 1 tomato, 0.5 cup chopped white cabbage, 1 onion, 1 liter of water, 4 tbsp. spoons of sour cream, bay leaf, salt.
Put chopped carrots, cabbage, sliced tomato slices, onion rings into boiling water. Cook until cooked, then add nettle, salt, bay leaf.
nettle salad
Compound: young nettle - 2 bunches (about 400g), green onions - 1 bunch (about 100g), parsley - 1 bunch, peeled walnuts - 1/2 cup, salt - to taste.
Place the washed nettle leaves in boiling water for a few minutes, then put it on a sieve, let the water drain. Then chop the greens, put in a salad bowl, add chopped green onions and combine with nettles. Dilute the crushed walnut kernels in a quarter cup of nettle broth, add vinegar to taste, mix and fill the nettles in a salad bowl with the resulting mixture.
Sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.
Salad "Joy"
Compound: nettle - 20g, sorrel - 20g, parsley - 20g, dill - 20g, green onion - 20g, garlic - 2g, vegetable oil - 8g, salt.
Processed nettle leaves, sorted and washed parsley, dill, green onions, sorrel are finely chopped, chopped garlic is added, salted to taste, seasoned with vegetable oil.
Nettle with nuts
Compound:
nettle - 1kg, water (slightly salted)- 1.5 cups, flour, vegetable oil, ground red pepper, thyme - 1 sprig, garlic, vinegar 3% - 1 tbsp. l., walnuts (crushed) - 4. tbsp. l, eggs - 5 pcs.
We sort the nettle, wash it, put it in a saucepan, pour in hot - 1.5 cups - salted water and cook until soft. We take it out of the broth, wring it out and rub it with a wooden spoon. Fry flour with vegetable oil in a pan (1<2 стакана) и добавляем молотый красный перец. Кладем крапиву в пассеровку, размешиваем и вливаем такое количество горячей воды, чтобы получилось не очень густое пюре.
Rub with salt a sprig of thyme, garlic and add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of 3% vinegar, Fill the nettle with this mixture and cook over low heat for 10 minutes. We put the finished nettle on a dish and sprinkle with coarsely crushed walnuts (4 tablespoons). Hard boil 5 pcs. eggs, cut each into 4 slices, lay on the edge of the dish and lightly sprinkle with salt and ground red pepper.
Nettle salad with nuts
Washed leaves (200 g) are placed in boiling water for 5 minutes, then put in a colander and chopped. Crushed walnut kernels (25 g) dilute in a nettle broth (1/4 cup), add vinegar, mix and fill the nettle with the resulting mixture. Sprinkle with finely chopped parsley and onion.
Nettle salad with egg
Washed leaves (150 g) boil in water for 5 minutes, put in a colander, chop, season with salt, vinegar, top with slices of hard-boiled eggs, pour sour cream (20 g).
Shchi green with nettle
Boil young nettles (150 g) in water for 3 minutes, drain in a colander, pass through a meat grinder and simmer with fat (10 g) for 10-15 minutes. Sauté finely chopped carrots (5 g), parsley (5 g) and onions (20 g) in fat. In boiling broth or water (600-700 ml), put nettles, browned vegetables and cook for 20-25 minutes. 10 minutes before readiness, add sorrel (50 g), green onions (15 g), bay leaf, pepper and salt (to taste). When serving, season with sour cream (15 g).
Nettle and potato soup
Put young nettles (250 g) for 2 minutes in boiling water (700 ml), put in a colander, finely chop and simmer with fat (20 g) for 10 minutes. Grind and sauté carrots (10 g) and onions (80 g). In a boiling broth, dip the sliced \u200b\u200bpotatoes (200 g); after the broth boils again, add nettles, carrots and onions. 5-10 minutes before readiness, put sorrel greens (120 g). When serving, put slices of hard-boiled eggs and sour cream (20 g) on a plate.
Armenian nettle soup
In a boiling broth (400 ml), put prepared rice (10 g), finely chopped onions (10 g), bring to a boil, add coarsely chopped potatoes (30 g). 10 minutes before the end of cooking put chopped young nettle (50 g), salt, spices. When serving, sprinkle the soup with herbs.
Botvinya homemade
Prepared spinach (30 g), young nettle (30 g) and sorrel (50 g) separately, wipe, dilute with kvass (350 ml), add salt (2 g), sugar (5 g). Boiled fish, slices of fresh cucumbers, chopped green onions, grated horseradish, lettuce served separately.
Nettle pudding
Grind greens of young nettle (100 g), spinach (200 g) and quinoa (50 g) and stew with milk or sour cream (30-40 g) until soft. Add egg powder (5-8 g), breadcrumbs (25 g), granulated sugar (3-5 g) and salt (2 g) to the finished greens, mix everything thoroughly, put the mass into a saucepan greased with butter and sprinkled with breadcrumbs and bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes.
Nettle balls
Put nettle (100 g) in boiling water for 2-3 minutes, put in a colander, chop, mix with thick wheat porridge (200 g), add fat (20 g) and salt (to taste), form meatballs from the resulting mass and fry them.
Nettle omelette
Boil nettles (500 g) in salted water, put in a colander and chop. In fried on ghee (3 tablespoons) onions (3 heads) add finely chopped dill or parsley (4 sprigs), mix with nettles and simmer until soft, then pour over beaten eggs (2 pcs.) And keep on fire until tender .
Nettle stewed with cheese
Simmer chopped nettle (80 g) for 5 minutes, add chopped green onions (10 g), salt, pepper, flour, grated cheese (30 g), simmer in melted butter (15 g) for 5 minutes. Pour the omelet mixture into the same dish (milk - 65 ml, wheat flour - 20 g, egg - 1/2 pc.) And bake in the oven.
Salted nettle
Wash young leaves and shoots, chop, put in glass jars, sprinkling layers of greens with salt (50 g per 1 kg of greens).
nettle juice
Pass the young nettle through a meat grinder, add cold boiled water (500 ml), mix, squeeze the juice through cheesecloth. Pass the remaining marc again through a meat grinder, dilute with water (500 ml), squeeze out the juice and combine with the first portion. Pour the juice into half-liter jars, pasteurize at a temperature of 65-70°C for 15 minutes, close with boiled polyethylene lids. Store in a cool place.
Trio cocktail
Combine nettle juice (200 ml), horseradish (200 ml) and onion (15 ml), add food ice (2 cubes) and salt (to taste).
Nettle pie filling
Pour boiling water over young nettles (1 kg) for 5 minutes, drain in a colander, chop, mix with boiled rice or sago (100 g) and chopped hard-boiled eggs (5 pcs.).
