I did the nettles the way I do pasta with rapini - sautéed in olive oil, with garlic, chilies, etc., and tossed with cooked pasta. I have seen a lot of recipes for nettles in the pasta dough itself, but it seems to me that the flavour of the nettles would be completely with that use. We have a large patch of nettles behind our chicken coop - a fact that dismays my husband every time he goes to cut down the weeds back there.
And wow they would be fantastic in spanakopita!
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