- Scientific name: Urtica dioica – Urtica urens – Urtica pilulifera
- Family: Urticacee
- Other names:
It should be harvested in spring when it is still young and soft. There are more or less hairy varieties.
It should be boiled and then used in pasta and risotto.
For the risotto I boiled some nettle leaves, blended them with a clove of garlic and added the mush to the risotto rice in the pan:
