Soup recipes: How to make nettle and wild garlic soup with easily foraged ingredients

Serve sprinkled with a few wild garlic flowers.

Nettle and wild garlic soup is a tasty spring dish

Our food columnist Darina Allen has often spoken about her love of foraging for ingredients and this dish is the perfect way to use the fruits of your labour.

This soup uses both wild garlic and nettles, which grow in abundance in the Irish countryside at this time of the year.