Watercress Soup, Watercress Soda Bread with Watercress Butter

Creamy watercress soup with buttery Jersey Royals, served with fresh soda bread and whipped watercress butter. Simple, green, and ridiculously good. James used produce from Sunbeam Watercress!

Ingredients

For the butter

200g butter softened
1 bunch watercress chopped finely

For the Soda Bread

170g self raising brown flour
170g plain flour
½ tsp salt
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
300ml buttermilk
1 bunch watercress, chopped finely

For the soup

2 bunches watercress
200g cooked jerseys royals
1 l full fat milk
To serve cream herb oil sprigs of watercress.

Method

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Preheat the oven to 200°C
Put all soda bread ingredients together in a large bowl and mix to form a dough. Shape into a circle and push down, they should be 20cm round and 3cm deep. Dust with a little flour and cut a cross onto the top. Bake with at 200 °C for 20 minutes.
To make the butter beat together the watercress and butter spoon into a serving dish.
To make the soup pop the milk into a pan with the potato bring to the boil season add to the watercress and blitz . Ladle into bowls, drizzle in cream, herb oil, dot with sprigs of watercress.

Ingredients

For the butter

200g butter softened
1 bunch watercress chopped finely

For the Soda Bread

170g self raising brown flour
170g plain flour
½ tsp salt
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
300ml buttermilk
1 bunch watercress, chopped finely

For the soup

2 bunches watercress
200g cooked jerseys royals
1 l full fat milk
To serve cream herb oil sprigs of watercress.

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C
Put all soda bread ingredients together in a large bowl and mix to form a dough. Shape into a circle and push down, they should be 20cm round and 3cm deep. Dust with a little flour and cut a cross onto the top. Bake with at 200 °C for 20 minutes.
To make the butter beat together the watercress and butter spoon into a serving dish.
To make the soup pop the milk into a pan with the potato bring to the boil season add to the watercress and blitz . Ladle into bowls, drizzle in cream, herb oil, dot with sprigs of watercress.