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Ok, so this sounds weird but you know those stinging nettles that are a nightmare when you are out walking? yes those! you can drink them, well at least turn them into tea. NOT RAW – that would be a disaster and very painful. BUT if you boil them properly you can make a tasty healthy tea!
Now I am not really a fan of the taste but I’ve made it a few times and I think you might like to try it too – hence the recipe, which came from BBC Good Food 🙂
There are lots of health benefit to nettles and nettle tea including (but not limited to):
To Collect the leaves make sure you wear gloves! – they sting until they are cooked don’t forget!
Ingredients
1 cup of nettles – The older looking they are the sweeter the taste
4 cups of water
1-2 tsp of sugar or honey to sweeten (optional – I went for sugar though)
Method
Variations:
If you fancy mixing it up a little you can also add things like:
Pregnant women have been advised against drinking nettle tea – so don’t let yourself be THAT person alright? (If you’re pregnant then no Nettle tea for you!)
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