nettle pasta!

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used the nettles left over from making nettle beer (my recipe has no ginger in it.. just some lemon peel which I picked out) to make nettle spaghetti!

it worked.. and looked splendid with a nice red tomato sauce..

[Hedgehogpie]

Brilliant! Looks lovely.

[ina]

Nice colour! I take it you have a pasta machine? Or did you cut them all by hand...

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yes we have a pasta machine.. with a spagetti attachment... person powered though!

[mrsflibble]

wow, was it like spinach pasta then? it looks lovely.

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yes pretty much - tbh if you really really thought about it you could pick up something nettle flavoured about it.. but once my tomato sauce went on top.. it just tasted like pasta - nice though.

ooo I bet wild garlic pasta would be worth a go....

[hedgewitch]

YUM!
Looks amazing and what a great idea....very resourceful too.

[MrsD'ville]

This looks great, and very timely as making pasta is one of those things I have up my sleeve for a half term activity. Being me there's a stupid question - at which stage and how do/would you add the nettles/wild garlic?

Thanks

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I haven't tried wild garlic yet - but plan to!

re nettles.. they need to be cooked first and then squeezed dry, then added to the flour before the egg goes in. I did this bit in the food processor for ease..