Guide to Prepare Nettle and mint pesto in 31 Minutes for Mom

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Nettles — weeds that grow throughout the United States — are like something out of a scary children's story. Toss pesto with pasta, spread on seared fish or chicken, or use as a dip for raw vegetables. Drop the nettles into a large pot of boiling salted water.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook nettle and mint pesto using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Nettle and mint pesto:

1. Take Several large stems of nettles
2. Take Generous handful fresh mint
3. Take 4 tbsp olive or avocado oil
4. Get 1 clove garlic or tsp garlic puree
5. Get 3 tbsp roasted peanuts, walnuts, cashew nuts or pinenuts
6. Make ready 1-2 tbsp sunflower seeds
7. Make ready 1-2 tbsp parmesan or alternative hard cheese

You may harvest nettles from the time the new leaves emerge from the Let's imagine you wish to harvest some nettles, and you have your scissors but forgot your gloves. The pesto will turn dark on top as the plant material is exposed to air (like a cut apple turning brown). Flavorful Easy, Nettle Pasta with flavoful nettle pesto, toasted pine nuts and lemon zest - simply delicious and full of minerals and nutrients! When making nettle pesto, remember that blanching greatly reduces the amount of nettles.

Steps to make Nettle and mint pesto:

1. Collect several large stems of nettles. Recommend you collect from your garden to be sure they do not have weed killer sprayed on them and wear thick gardening gloves! Using scissors, carefully remove the leaves. Discard the stems.
2. Inspect the leaves for pests or anything else unsavoury and remove or discard those leaves. Wash carefully using a salad spinner.
3. Put into a large pan and pour over boiling water. Continue to boil and carefully stir for 2 minutes to remove any stings. The leaves will begin to wilt in a similar way to spinach. Then put straight into cold water to stop the cooking.
4. Using a salad spinner or clean towel remove as much water as possible. The texture of the leaves will have changed to a slightly furry texture but the leaves will not sting you anymore. Don't discard the water as this can be drank as nettle tea and is very nutrient rich.
5. Add 3 tbsp olive or avocado oil and a generous handful of fresh mint leaves. Then add nuts and seeds. Blend using a food processor until smooth.
6. Stir in finely grated parmesan or alternative hard cheese.
7. Serve over pasta.

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