The nettle in May – the beginning of June, collected in the eco-friendly area, will enrich the daily menu with unusual and tasty dishes. This simple and useful plant can become not only the main ingredient of habitual green salads and Russian cabbage soup. It is possible to make cutlets with a nettle and to please house nourishing, and at the same time with a lung, a dinner.
Potato patties with a nettle
Make abrupt mashed potatoes (800 g of potatoes on 300-350 g of greens of a nettle). Leaves wash out a nettle family in flowing water and water with boiled water that not исколоть hands then cut. Fry small cut bulb in a sunflower purified oil, extinguish 6-8 min. with greens and mix with potato. Add to forcemeat to taste salt and pepper, beat out 2 crude eggs and properly mix everything.
You stick together from the received mass of cutlet. In separate ware shake up egg. Dip in it preparations, then roll in them in flour. Fry cutlets with a nettle and potatoes in a frying pan on sunflower oil from two parties before emergence of a golden crust. Give with sour cream or curdled milk.
Oat cutlets with a nettle
The excellent simple recipe at dietary food – nettle and porridge cutlets. For preparation of this light dish previously wet a glass of flakes in water that they bulked up as porridge. Via the meat grinder miss 300-350 g of the washed-out and cut nettle, on a bunch of feathers of onions and greens of parsley, a large bulb. Boil couple of potatoes, mash and put to forcemeat.
Add to the received mass of 2 crude eggs, salt everything and pepper to the taste. Carefully vent forcemeat and create from it small cutlets. Roll in them in wheat flour or pounded crackers and fry from two parties, won't be reddened yet.
Try to make cutlets with a nettle and porridge with a cube of chicken broth – they will have a taste, as from meat. In this case carefully add salt to forcemeat! To receive lighter dish, it can be baked in an oven within 15 min. from each party. In 5 min. until ready on each cutlet put on a plate of processed cheese.