Cress soup

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Cress soup

Side dish for 4 people (in France called cressonsoup)

Ingredients

  • One bag (10g/4000seeds) fully grown cress
  • 1.5 liters chicken or vegetable broth
  • 50 grams of butter
  • 50 grams of flour

Preparation

1. Chop the garden cress, and keep some whole stems as garnish.
2. Melt the butter in a pan and slowely add flower while keep stirring. This is the way to make a roux. Make sure you prevent any lumps.
3. Carefully add the broth to the roux, keep stirring again. Add the chopped watercress to the soup and let it boil gently for 5 minutes.
4. Serve the soup in soup plates or bowls and add a few whole stems cress

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Grown cress from one bag of cress seeds

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Cut the cress

 

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Chop the cress

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Add the cress to the roux