Clover nutrition will be on my next post, today is focusing on purple dead nettles! Strain. They’re a great source of vitamin C, iron, fiber, and flavonoids. Purple deadnettle is not only a wild edible green, but a highly nutritious superfood. If you just want to make nettle tea later, first give the leaves a rinse and pat them dry (avoid touching them with bare skin). If you feel that “the only good dead-nettle, is a dead dead-nettle, you have options. Sign up below to get a free downloadable info sheet from the course, all about purple dead nettle. I don’t have a dehydrator so I use the oven on a low temperature (no more than 65 degrees C or 150 degrees F), for about 7 -8 hours. Use 3 cups of loose fresh nettles in the biscuit recipe, 6 cups in the soup. Dried Nettle Leaves for Tea. ... We hope you enjoy our easy nettle soup recipe! This stinging nettle soup is a delicious puree of nettles, onion, potatoes, and … Purple deadnettle’s scientific name Lamium purpureum has the Greek translation ‘the devouring purple monster’. Meanwhile, add butter to pan and fry onions until translucent (not browned), about five minutes. The leaves are edible, with the purple tops being even a little sweet. The leaves and stems can be eaten in a salad, cooked into soup or made into a tea, but the nettle root is more likely to be extracted with alcohol to make a tincture, dried and taken in capsules, or dried and made into a tea. Clover and purple dead nettle I have yet to discuss on my blog. 5 oz dead nettle.

1 clove garlic minced. The name is perfect to describe the effect the weed has on its environment. Saute … D eep green nettle soup is a spring treat; don’t worry, all the sting is taken out by the heat of the liquid. I once thought of dead nettle only as a horrible weed we needed to pull, but I now understand how useful it is. (Only the driest hottest southwestern and the driest coldest northwestern states are absent of dead-nettle.) The name is perfect to describe the effect the weed has on its environment. These are weeds you commonly find in your yard in the spring. Dead, Nettle Soup. Purple dead nettle is one of the plants covered in my gather + root online foraging course! Photography by Angie Norwood Browne. Dead-nettle recipes: Creamy nettle rice bake; Dead-nettle range: Dead-nettle grows in all but a handful of US states. We are loving to go foraging for dead nettle! Freeze it and use within a year. I have a feeling for a while you will also be on this learning curve with me as I discover what I can from the wilderness! Edible Uses of Purple Dead Nettle. Freeze Nettle Stock/Nettle Tea. Sign up below to get a free downloadable info sheet from the course, all about purple dead nettle. Purple deadnettle is not only a wild edible green, but a highly nutritious superfood. Edible Uses of Purple Dead Nettle. Dead Nettles. It is an annual winter weed in generally warm areas, which transforms … If it still seems weird to you, remember that nettles are the same family as mint. Purple dead nettle is one of the plants covered in my gather + root online foraging course!