Salted Water Muffins with Nettles

Anyone who, like me, has lived for many years in the countryside, will have come across nettles: their pungent contact with our skin is not a good feeling, I guarantee you. What if we ate them? Don't worry, when properly treated, nettles are harmless and lose their stinging power. Today I will give you a demonstration by making special savory muffins with nettles!

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• 150 KCal Calories per serving

• Ingrediants

  For 6 muffins

  • 200 g of fresh spinach or nettles
  • 100 g of wholemeal flour
  • 40 ml of corn oil
  • 150-170 ml of water
  • 2 g of guar gum
  • 2 g of cream of tartar
  • 1 g of baking soda
  • 1 pinch of garlic powder
  • Q.b. of salt

  Materials Needed

  • Basin for washing nettles
  • Muffin mold
  • Paper or silicone cups
  • Immersion blender
  • Sieve
  • Scale weighs food
  • Skimmer

  Preparation

  1. Clean the nettles. Wearing resistant latex gloves, rinse the nettles in cold water and immerse them in a basin full of water and baking soda, essential to eliminate impurities. Rinse again.

  Curiosity
  The leaves of the nettles are covered with hollow stinging hairs (called trichomes) which, in contact with the skin, act like needles because they release some itchy molecules (eg histamine). Soaking is usually sufficient to eliminate stinging hairs, and boiling water completely eliminates stinging substances.

  2. Blanch the nettles in plenty of boiling water for a couple of minutes.
  3. Drain the nettles with the help of a slotted spoon and collect them in a beaker. Add the cold water, a pinch of salt, the garlic powder, the oil and blend to obtain a cream.
  4. In a bowl, sift the wholemeal flour, add the guar gum, cream of tartar and baking soda (basic ingredients of homemade chemical yeast) and, in the center, pour the mixture of water, oil and nettles.

  Did you know that
  Guar gum is essential to give structure to the dough because there are no eggs in the recipe.

  5. Line a muffin mold with the appropriate cups.
  6. Distribute the mixture in the muffin cups, filling the molds up to 3/4 full.
  7. Bake the muffins in the oven at 160 ° C (mode: ventilated) for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
  8. Remove from the oven and serve to taste. Those who wish can cut the muffins in half and fill them as they like.

  Alice's comment - PersonalCooker

  Can't find nettles? Replace them with fresh spinach, radicchio or enrich the mixture with boiled peas: the result will be phenomenal!

  Nutritional values ​​and Health Comment on the recipe

  Salted Water Muffins with Nettles are foods that belong to the group of appetizers.
  They have a significant energy supply, provided mainly by lipids, followed by carbohydrates and finally by proteins.
  Fatty acids are mainly polyunsaturated, complex carbohydrates and peptides of medium biological value.
  Cholesterol is absent and fiber is abundant.
  Salted Water Muffins with Nettles are suitable for most diets, although in case of overweight and metabolic pathologies it may be advisable to reduce the average portion.
  They contend for gluten, they do not lend themselves to the diet for celiac disease.
  They do not provide lactose and lend themselves to the nutritional regime against this intolerance.
  They are allowed by the vegetarian philosophy but not by the vegan one.
  The average portion is around 40-50 g (95-115 kcal).