Nettle cakes: delicious step by step recipes with photos

Miracle with nettles is a national dish of the Dagestan people, which in appearance resembles very thin chebureks. Unleavened dough and various fillings are prepared for it – greens, vegetables, meat, cottage cheese, but with wild grass, flat cakes are considered the most useful. Nettle can be used both on its own and in combination with other herbs, onions, eggs and Adyghe cheese.

Features of preparation

Miracles with nettles in Dagestan begin to cook as early as March, when this weed appears there, the tender young leaves of which are considered the best ingredient for the filling. Usually, greens are chopped or chopped in a meat grinder, then lightly fried in butter and salted.

The dough for the dish is prepared cool and unleavened. They roll it into thin cakes, spread a little stuffing halfway on top, give it the shape of a cheburek and pinch the edges. Fry in a dry frying pan on all sides, generously grease with melted butter and cover with a lid to soften.

Below are the most popular recipes for a miracle with nettles and with photos with step-by-step preparation.

The dish is served hot, you can put sour cream separately

The classic recipe for a miracle with nettles

Miracle with nettle filling is an easy spring option for preparing a dish saturated with useful vitamins. Flatbreads are well served in combination with vegetables and garlic sauce.

For the dough:

• flour – 0,5 kg;
• water – 1 glass;
• vegetable oil – 30 ml;
• salt.

For the filling:

• nettle – 1000 g;
• onion – 1 pcs .;
• greens of dill, cilantro – a bunch;
• butter – 50 g;
• spices – to taste.

The cakes are juicy and soft inside, and have a light baked crust on the outside.

Cooking process:

1. Mix the sifted flour with salt, add oil and warm water. Knead the dough well, cover it, leave for a quarter of an hour.
2. Sort greens, wash, dry, cut.
3. Peel the onion, finely chop, fry until golden brown.
4. Pour hot frying into a cup with herbs, mix, add spices.
5. Roll out the dough into thin cakes, put the filling on it, pinch the edges.
6. Fry on both sides in a dry, well-heated pan.
7. Brush the finished dish generously with oil.

How to cook a miracle with nettle and egg

Nettle filling with the addition of eggs gives a richer and more interesting taste to the dish. The combination is simple but successful.

Recipe composition:

• flour – 250 g;
• oil – 20 ml;
• water – 80 ml;
• main ingredient – 300 g;
• eggs – 3 pcs .;
• salt – 1 tsp.

Since chudu are thin, they should be baked very quickly.

Cooking process:

1. From warm water, flour, butter and salt, knead the dough, cover it with a plastic bag and leave to rest for half an hour.
2. Wash young leaves of burning grass well, scald if necessary, chop finely.
3. Cool the hard-boiled eggs, remove the shell, finely chop.
4. Mix greens with egg crumbs, salt.
5. Roll out thin cakes from the dough, put the filling on half of each, cover with the second part, blind the edges.
6. Put semi-finished products on a preheated pan, bake on both sides until golden brown.

Recipe for cakes with nettle and Adyghe cheese

Cheese gives the miracle a special taste and aroma. The delicacy is served exclusively hot.

Products included:

• wheat flour – 1 cup;
• one egg;
• ghee and vegetable oil – 1 tbsp. l.;
• water – 2 / 3 glass;
• Adyghe cheese – 0,2 kg;
• nettle – 150 g;
• greens (onion, parsley, dill) – 150 g;
• salt – to taste.

The thinner you roll the dough, the more delicious the miracle turns out.

Cooking process:

1. First you need to knead the unleavened dough. It should be soft, without lumps, not stick to your hands.
   Council! The dough can be made in a custard way, then it will be more elastic.
2. For the filling, all greens should be washed well under water, dried and finely chopped.
3. Put half of the butter in the pan, when it melts, add the grass and warm it up a little.
   Attention! The filling must not be allowed to fry, when it becomes soft and settles, the fire should be turned off.
4. Grate a piece of Adyghe cheese on a grater with large teeth or cut into cubes, combine with herbs, salt, mix.
5. Divide the dough into pieces, roll each of them into a thin cake, lay out a layer of filling halfway, roll it up like a cheburek and pinch the edges.
6. Bake cakes in a pan, grease with oil while hot, put in a pile and cover to steam.

Conclusion

Chudu with nettle is a healthy dish, as the herb contains a lot of vitamins. Every housewife living in Dagestan has her own secret of making cakes, the recipe of which is passed down from generation to generation. It is worth noting that some women dry or freeze nettle leaves collected in the spring and cook a miracle from them in the cold season.