Nettle – Vegetable

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 1 ½ kg nettles, tips, fresh
• 50 g bacon, green or smoked
• 1 m.-sized onion(s)
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 pinch(s) of pepper
• Water
• some flour
• possibly sour cream

Instructions

Working time approx. 25 minutes; Total time approx. 25 minutes

Relic from the post-war period, now highly topical again

Collect freshly picked nettle tips (wearing gloves if necessary) from a location where low-pollutant plants grow, then rinse and blanch them at home. Then grind the nettles through a grinder and add water, season with salt and pepper, just like spinach, and cook until tender. Make an onion and bacon melt from the bacon, onion, and flour, and add this to the vegetables and bring to a boil. If you like, you can add a “plump” of sour cream or sour cream, just like with spinach. My father once cooked this as an alternative to spinach in the 1960s, with the comment: “We often had this for dinner after the war.” Today, it’s known that nettles contain more iron than spinach!