The Chinese boils watercress for soup or for a cooling quaff (liang cha). While Westerners purpose raw watercress for salads too sandwiches.
Watercress inward Malaysia is non suitable for purpose inward salads or eaten raw. Because...... they are grown inward H2O that is fertilized past times sacks of chicken droppings soaked inward the ponds they are grown in. This way... I don't intend i volition swallow raw veg bathed inward chicken s**t water.. hehehehe.. lots of bacteria, too they may bring a few slugs stuck betwixt the petioles..
But hey.. without those precious materials from the chickens, u won't drib dead those fatty juicy watercress from Camerons..
Watercress Soup recipe
300gm soup bones or ribs
250 gm watercress
6 blood-red dates, pitted
10 white peppercorns, crushed
1 tsp salt
1.5L water
1. Trim leaves too tip off the primary stalk of the H2O cress. Keep them seperately.
2. Scald soup bones or ribs.
3. Boil 1.5L H2O too set inward the stems, bones, blood-red dates too peppercorn too simmer on med depression heat.
4. After too hr too a one-half of simmering, take away stems too set inward the leaves too tips of watercress.
5. Simmer for approximately other 30-45 minutes too flavor amongst salt.
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Usually my grandaunt volition throw the stems away after simmering, maxim that they are tough to live on chewed. But if I'm around, she'll teach out them for me to eat.
I unremarkably encounter other people cutting the H2O cress into ii inches length too putting the whole watercress stems inward to boil together amongst the leaves... hehehe.. but non the means my grandaunt taught me.. she only retained the leaves too tips to live on set inward at a later on phase .
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