Nettle soup
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Nettle soup is a soup
prepared from stinging nettle
s. It is eaten principally during spring and early summer, when young nettle buds are collected. It is often served with sliced boiled eggs. The dish is traditionally eaten in the Nordic countries and Eastern Europe
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Soup
Soup is a generally warm food that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables with stock, juice, water, or another liquid. Hot soups are additionally characterized by boiling solid ingredients in liquids in a pot until the flavors are extracted, forming a broth.Traditionally,...
prepared from stinging nettle
Stinging nettle
Stinging nettle or common nettle, Urtica dioica, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant, native to Europe, Asia, northern Africa, and North America, and is the best-known member of the nettle genus Urtica...
s. It is eaten principally during spring and early summer, when young nettle buds are collected. It is often served with sliced boiled eggs. The dish is traditionally eaten in the Nordic countries and Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
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