Watercress Soup, Watercress Soda Bread and Watercress Butter

These recipes for Watercress Soup, Watercress Soda Bread and Watercress Butter are a celebration of this widely available ingredient. Vibrant in colour, simple to make and deliciously tasty these recipes are a great way to incorporate watercress into your meal planner!
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Ingredients

Butter
  • 200g butter, softened
  • 1 bunch watercress, blanched and squeezed out, chopped
Soda Bread
  • 170g self raising brown flour
  • 170g plain flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 300ml buttermilk
  • 1 bunch watercress, blanched and squeezed out, chopped
Soup
  • 2 bunches of watercress
  • 1 ltr full fat milk
To serve
  • Cream
  • Herb oil
  • Sprigs of watercress

Method

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  1. Preheat the oven to 200 °C.
  2. Put all of the soda bread ingredients together in a large bowl and mix to form a dough.
  3. Shape into 2 circles and push down. They should be 15cm round and 3cm deep.
  4. Dust with a little flour and cut a cross onto the top.
  5. Bake with at 200 °C for 15-20 minutes.
  6. To make the butter, beat together the watercress and butter. Spoon into a serving dish..
  7. Pop the watercress into a pan with the milk, bring to the boil, season and blitz. Ladle into bowls, drizzle in the cream and the herb oil, dot with sprigs of watercress.

Ingredients

Butter
  • 200g butter, softened
  • 1 bunch watercress, blanched and squeezed out, chopped
Soda Bread
  • 170g self raising brown flour
  • 170g plain flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 300ml buttermilk
  • 1 bunch watercress, blanched and squeezed out, chopped
Soup
  • 2 bunches of watercress
  • 1 ltr full fat milk
To serve
  • Cream
  • Herb oil
  • Sprigs of watercress

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 200 °C.
  2. Put all of the soda bread ingredients together in a large bowl and mix to form a dough.
  3. Shape into 2 circles and push down. They should be 15cm round and 3cm deep.
  4. Dust with a little flour and cut a cross onto the top.
  5. Bake with at 200 °C for 15-20 minutes.
  6. To make the butter, beat together the watercress and butter. Spoon into a serving dish..
  7. Pop the watercress into a pan with the milk, bring to the boil, season and blitz. Ladle into bowls, drizzle in the cream and the herb oil, dot with sprigs of watercress.

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