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Nettle Pesto

nettle pesto

Interestingly trial, not win the basil pesto

Our holiday home is filled with nettles, so I have long been thinking that I should I try to do something with them. I decided me for pesto, of course, it is easy and tastes super good.

I promised my boy and his companion an ice cream if they could gather nettles to me. I sent them out in the garden wearing rubber gloves to pick 100 g nettles, any cannabis buds. I even thought it was a very fun project, but they thought it was såååå boring, and came in with 10 (g) at a time, and asked impatiently about it not soon was enough. Since they lacked 20 g my cunning boy came in with a huge smile and said that it was the extra service that they had also washed burn nettles for me. He threw them quickly into the Bowl on the scale, for he had just figured out that if there was water on so weighted the something more, ha ha, not a bad thought of a 9 at the age of, but I saw through him and we have grint of it for several days.

I took the starting point in my own basil pesto recipe as is here. And pestoen was quick and easy to make, but do not get the same green beautiful color or the beautiful scent of basil 🙂
When we had to eat had the kid then all of a sudden got invited himself to sausages and/beefburgers down the road with his buddy. The idea of brændenælde pesto was evidently not just something that lured him, though his buddy had tasted it before, and said it tasted perfectly fine.
Boys picking nettles
The bereaved parents ate it, and retired ... ... we were quite agree, the taste was ok (garlic), but the texture was so something special and tough. We also tried to chew some completely fresh brændenælde leaves, and my husband found that they tasted of cardboard. But it can easily be eaten, and there is something funny about using some of its own raw materials, but I prefer clearly even the ordinary basillikum and parsley pesto with.
Do you have many stinging nettles then try it for fun, We ate it on pasta for a piece of fresh fish.
Print recipe

RECIPE – PESTO

INGREDIENTS

100 g nettles
8 walnuts
1 DL olive oil
3 tablespoons grated parmasanost
A little lemon
Salt and pepper

 

APPROACH

  • Wash and clean brændnælderne, Blade pokes not.
  • Pour boiling water over the leaf end and let them stand in 5 minutes
  • Put everything in blender and run
  • Season with salt and pepper.

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One comment on "Nettle Pesto”

  1. Hello, I myself do many things with nettles as I am from an asatro family and use many herbs with medicinal effects. Nettles really have a lot of flavor, but it must be the small fresh nettles in the spring, they are also used for medicine. Etc ☺️
    They taste so good that you can fry them in a pan in a little butter for a delicious snack ☺️

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