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Potage au Cresson (French Watercress Soup)

Servings: 6

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Course:

Soups [/dishes/soups/]

Cuisine:

French [/cuisines/french/]

🧂 Ingredients

2 tbsp olive oil
1 small onion

chopped
1.3 lb potatoes

diced
10 1/2 oz watercress

chopped
100 ml water
2 pint chicken or vegetable stock
sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
a pinch of freshly grated nutmeg

Instructions

1 Heat the olive oil in a saucepan and cook the onion and potato over a medium-low
heat for 20 minutes. Add the watercress (keep a little back to use for garnish)
and water and cook for 5 minutes until the watercress wilts.
2 Add the stock, seasoning and nutmeg, bring to the boil and gently simmer for 15
minutes.
3 Blend with a hand-held blender until smooth. Check the seasoning, scatter with
the reserved watercress and serve at once.