Spring means a lot of weed…
But I have a solution, Just eat them:)
I am not going to talk about the benefits of nettles, wood sorrel, dandelion leaves and goutweed. You can read this from Wikipedia 🙂
But believe me, they are healthy. The first source of vitamins in spring.
Goutweed taste like carrots and celery. Nettles are a little bit sweet. And wood sorrel is sour.
Nettles keep 1-2 minutes in the boiling water. Goutweed and wood sorrel are edible fresh.
NB! Use only young, fresh, new, small weed, growing in the pure environment.
Nettle Salad
A fresh, light, first spring Salad, full of vitamines
Ingredients
- weeds (nettles, wood sorrel, dandelion leaves and goutweed)
- grated carrot
- hard-boiled egg
- hazelnuts, chopped For sauce
- sour cream
- mayonnaise
- garlic
Directions
- For sauce mix sour cream and mayonnaise and season with smashed garlic
- tear green into the pieces, add grated carrot and boiled egg
- Mix together.
One more way to use nettles. To make sauna whisks 🙂
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Estonian Cuisine. Eesti Toit. 
not sure about eating salads but the marathon looks like a lot of fun
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It is fun 🙂
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What a beautiful salad you have managed to plate! Remember nettle and wood sorrel soups clearly from my childhood . . . don’t think salads were a big deal in Estonia way back then ! But kudos truly for your plating – unfortunately my neighbourhood is either empty of weeds or they may have been sprayed by todays’ gross chemicals . . .
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Thank you! 😉
Most gardeners do not like weed, so understandable… 🙂
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