{"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). 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