Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, potato and watercress soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Potato and watercress soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Potato and watercress soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Delia's Watercress and Potato Soup recipe. Dorothy Hartley's 'Food in England' (one of my cookery bibles). Talking of watercress she says 'they reckon it is a good thing to eat in the spring.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook potato and watercress soup using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Potato and watercress soup:
- Prepare 25 g butter
- Get 50 g onion
- Take 50 g leek
- Take 1 litre whitestock
- Prepare 400 g peeled potatoes
- Make ready 1 bunch watercress
Add the onion and garlic and sauté gently until softened. Melt butter in heavy large saucepan over medium heat. Peel and roughly chop the potatoes, onions and garlic. In a large saucepan, heat a little olive oil, then sauté the potato, onion and garlic until the onions are translucent.
Steps to make Potato and watercress soup:
- Put leaves of watercress into a small pan of boiling water. Refresh under cold water.
- Heat the oil in a pan
- Add peeled an washed sliced onions an leek, cook for a few minutes.
- Add the stock, the peeled, washed and sliced potatoes and the rest of watercress and season.
- Simmer for 30minutes
- Pass the soup firmly through a sieve then pass through a conical strainer
- Return to a clean pan, recoil, correct the seasoning and consistency
- Garnish with watercress
- Serve with fried croutons separately
Add the stock and simmer until the potato is soft. Heat oil in a large pan and fry the onions and garlic until the onions are translucent. Watercress soup is one of those great soups, like a lot of French dishes, that don't necessarily require a lot of ingredients. Instead it depends on coaxing flavor out of the few ingredients that you have. Watercress has tons of flavor, for example, so keeping it simple highlights that vibrant green color and zesty flavor of the cress.
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