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  • 15ml/1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 small onion, chopped
  • 1 small stick celery
  • 350g/12oz potato, peeled and diced
  • 600ml/1pt chicken or vegetable stock
  • 3 (85g) bags watercress
  • 150ml/1/4pt milk
  • pinch of nutmeg
  • squeeze of lemon juice
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
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    Method

    • step 1

      1. Heat the oil in a large pan, add the onion and celery and sauté over a medium heat for 5 mins until pale golden. Stir in the potato and stock and bring to the boil. Cover and simmer for 10 mins or until the potato is tender.
    • step 2

      2. Stir in the watercress, cover and cook for a further 5 mins or until the watercress is wilted. Transfer the soup to a food processor and blitz until smooth. Return the soup to the rinsed out pan add the milk, nutmeg, lemon juice and seasoning to taste. Gently reheat until piping hot and serve with crusty bread.
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    A star rating of 5 out of 5.11 ratings

    xcnp9spbrp71422

    question

    Wanting to substitute the milk for a non dairy alternative. Any suggestions as to which works for best flavour, soya, oat, almond or cashew or some other?

    mrsemilyjmbrown

    question

    Can this be frozen?

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    goodfoodteam

    Hi, yes this can be frozen.

    2marinajac

    question

    can you reheat this soup. some say celery shouldn't be reheated?

    nanadi

    I batch cook a version of ragu also leek & potato soup both contain celery which reheat nicely 😋

    AnnaDo

    This is really delicious. So full of goodness and incredibly quick and simple too. Seen lots of other watercress soup recipes with cream in, but definitely not needed. Go easy on the pepper because watercress is obviously peppery itself and the lemon juice lifts it.

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    Alastair Gilchrist

    question

    Is that 3 x 85g bags or 3 bags weighing 85g in total. The recipe could be clearer.

    louisepmartin@gmail.com

    I agree could be clearer. made that error myself and actually 28g bag is not too ridiculous a thought as I weighed it out myself

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