Nettle soup with egg, potato and chicken

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   How to cook nettle soup with egg, potatoes and chicken? Prepare your food. For the broth, take any parts of the chicken, I used drumsticks, but thighs, fillets, and the bones left over from filleting will also work. Boil the eggs first. Pick young nettles, trying to take only the top fresh shoots. Be careful, it burns strongly, use gloves.

2. STEP 2

   

   First of all, fill the drumsticks with cold, clean water and place the pan with them on low heat to simmer. While the broth is boiling, prepare the nettles. Place it in a bowl, fill it with cold water and rinse thoroughly to remove dirt and sand. Then drain the water. Do all this with gloves, the nettle still stings. To rid it of this, pour boiling water over the nettle and soak in it for one minute.

3. STEP 3

   

   Drain the boiling water from the nettle, collect the herb itself into a ball and squeeze lightly. Chop the nettles quite finely, just as you would cut greens.

4. STEP 4

   

   Rinse the dill with water, dry and finely chop with a knife. Instead of dill (or together with it), you can take any other greens. Set the nettles and dill aside for now.

5. STEP 5

   

   Meanwhile, the broth will boil; remove the foam from it with a slotted spoon. Add salt, reduce heat and simmer the broth, covered, for 30-40 minutes, depending on the parts of the chicken.

6. STEP 6

   

   Meanwhile, prepare the vegetables. Peel the onion and cut into small pieces.

7. STEP 7

   

   Wash the carrots, peel and cut into small pieces. Or grate on a coarse grater, as you prefer.

8. STEP 8

   

   Wash the potatoes, peel and cut into large cubes.

9. STEP 9

   

   Peel the eggs and cut into cubes.

10. STEP 10

    

    The broth has already cooked for the required time, add the potatoes into it.

11. STEP 11

    

    And then onions and carrots. Cover the pan with a lid again and simmer the soup for 15 minutes until the potatoes become soft.

12. STEP 12

    

    Add chopped eggs to the soup. Wait for it to boil, boil it for just a couple of minutes.

13. STEP 13

    

    Add chopped nettles and dill. Stir. Wait until the soup boils again and immediately turn off the heat - this way you will preserve both the color and vitamins of the nettle. Cover the pan with a lid and leave for 10 minutes.

14. STEP 14

    

    Serve the soup with sour cream and rye bread. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

Testomania

29.10.2023

4.8

Even in my childhood, in addition to traditional greens, my mother often added young nettles, dandelion leaves and other strange herbs to salads. At the same time, each had its own technological approach - poured boiling water over something, soaked something in salt water, etc. Therefore, the craving for using “wild” greens in food in my family has deep, stable roots))) After winter, my children and I always look forward to the appearance of wild garlic, spinach, ground parsley and dill, and also with great pleasure we eat dishes with the addition of nettles ( most often these are salads). I was very pleased that here on the site there are our like-minded people in this matter)) I found this recipe and prepared a fragrant and rich nettle soup, ate it with pleasure and recharged with vitamins. Nettle soup with egg, potato and chicken turned out delicious, satisfying and spring-fresh! But, as far as I know, nettle should be taken very carefully in food, it somehow actively affects blood clotting, and there are contraindications to its use. It also powerfully enhances lactation (from my own experience - during periods of breastfeeding I ate salads with nettles and added it to tea). Therefore, I give this soup the highest rating, and for those who have not yet tried dishes with nettles, I highly recommend doing so!

glavbyx

29.10.2023

5

Delicious spring soup with young nettles. This soup is very tasty and healthy; we prepare it in early spring and autumn, when young nettles appear. Adding potatoes makes it more filling. And you can use any broth, not only chicken, but also beef or pork.