{"id":150,"date":"2013-04-17T10:31:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T09:31:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-05-27T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T11:53:20","slug":"nettle-haggis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/nettle-haggis\/","title":{"rendered":"Nettle Haggis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Nettle Haggis<\/h1>\n<p>Nettle Haggis is perhaps one of the cheapest recipes I&#8217;ve ever made (especially if you leave out the bacon) and one of the first to feature on Self-Sufficientish back when the site started in 2004.\u00a0 It&#8217;s particularly good in the Spring with fresh new nettle along with a good handful of wild garlic leaves.<\/p>\n<h1>Ingredients<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>4 Medium sized leeks and\/or 1 &#8211; 3 onions<\/li>\n<li>1-6 Cloves of garlic depending on preference or a good handful of wild garlic leaves.<\/li>\n<li>About a two dozen nettle tops or young nettles (or more) pureed (partially cooked for about 5-10 mins and chopped)<\/li>\n<li>A large bowl of partially cooked oatmeal &#8211; This will determine the size of the haggis<\/li>\n<li>Sage, Thyme, Black-pepper to taste<\/li>\n<li>Chopped Fried bacon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mix all the ingredients together and pack into a muslin bag or clean tea towel and tie the ends. Boil for about an hour and serve with gravy. This recipe is adapted from Richard Mabey&#8217;s, &#8216;food for free&#8217;. I have cooked this without the bacon using a tea towel. The end result was slightly sloppy but after placing in the fridge overnight it became a lot more solid and was very tasty (before and after). If you&#8217;re going to omit the bacon you may want to add some butter or margarine, or even some fried aubergine .<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Nettle Haggis Nettle Haggis is perhaps one of the cheapest recipes I&#8217;ve ever made (especially if you leave out the bacon) and one of the first to feature on Self-Sufficientish back when the site started <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/nettle-haggis\/\" title=\"Nettle Haggis\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730,271],"tags":[308,585,293],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-wild","tag-nettle-haggis","tag-nettle-recipe","tag-nettles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}