Watercress Stuffing Food

CHESTNUT AND WATERCRESS STUFFING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Tear bread into rough pieces. Place in the bowl of a food processor; pulse until bread is in coarse crumbs, about 30 seconds. Spread crumbs onto a baking sheet. Bake until crumbs are dry and pale golden, about 12 minutes.
• Heat butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. When hot, add onion and celery. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onions are softened, about 3 minutes. Push to one side of pan; add chicken livers. Brown chicken livers on both sides, about 5 minutes. Remove pan from heat.
• Chop chicken livers into 1/8- to 1/4-inch pieces. Toss in a large bowl with onion, celery, breadcrumbs, chestnuts, rosemary, salt, pepper to taste, cream, Cognac, and watercress.

VEAL BREAST WITH WATERCRESS STUFFING

Steps:

• Wipe the meat well with a damp cloth.
• Rinse the watercress well and drop it into boiling water. Let stand about 10 seconds. Drain well and, when cool enough to handle, squeeze it to extract excess moisture. Chop it and set aside.
• Put the pork in a deep saucepan and add the two cups of chopped onion and the finely minced garlic. Cook, stirring, about five minutes and add the mushrooms, chopped thyme and chopped bay leaf. Cook, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes. Add the chopped watercress and stir to blend well. Remove from the heat. Stir in the bread crumbs and add the beaten eggs, salt and pepper to taste. Stir and let cool.
• Meanwhile, preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Stuff the veal with the watercress mixture and sew up the pocket all around to enclose the filling. Sprinkle the meat on all sides with salt and pepper to taste.
• Heat the butter in a heavy skillet or roasting pan and add the veal, skin side down and bone side up. Bake 15 minutes and turn the meat skin side up. Bake 15 minutes longer.
• Scatter the celery, green peppers, coarsely chopped onion, coarsely chopped garlic, whole bay leaf, thyme sprigs and tomatoes around, but not on top of, the meat. Cover closely with foil and bake one hour.
• Reduce the oven heat to 350 degrees. Uncover the meat and bake 30 minutes longer. Let stand about 10 minutes before slicing. Serve with vegetables in sauce surrounding the roast.

WATERCRESS STUFFING

Steps:

• Cook onion and celery for about 2 minutes in half the butter or margarine. Add salt, pepper and watercress. Cook until liquid evaporates. Melt remaining butter or margarine and toss with breadcrumbs and other ingredients for stuffing. Use to stuff chicken or game hens.

ONE-PAN WATERCRESS-STUFFED SALMON WITH PARMESAN NEW POTATOES

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 230C/210C fan/gas 8 and line a large, shallow roasting tin with baking parchment. Tip the potatoes into a large bowl and drizzle with the olive oil, then toss well to coat. Sprinkle over the parmesan, thyme and seasoning, then toss again to cover. Tip the potatoes into the tin and spread out in an even layer. Roast for 40 mins, turning after 30 mins, until golden and just cooked through.
• Meanwhile, roughly chop the watercress and tip into a food processor or mini chopper along with the soft cheese, lemon zest and juice, the Dijon mustard or horseradish sauce and plenty of seasoning. Blitz until you have a thick, bright green sauce. Scrape into a bowl and set aside. Will keep covered in the fridge for up to a day.
• Lay the salmon out on a board, skin-side down. With your hand positioned flat on top of the fillet, carefully use a long, sharp knife to slice into it from the side, being careful not to cut straight through. Open the fillet out like a book, then spread over half the sauce to cover the surface completely. Close the fillet again to enclose the sauce. Set aside until the potatoes are ready.
• After 40 mins, toss the potatoes again and push them to the sides of the tin, leaving space in the middle for the salmon. Nestle the salmon into the middle of the potatoes, skin-side down. Drizzle with the olive oil and roast for 15-20 mins until the salmon is just cooked through. Serve straight from the tray with a few sprigs of fresh watercress scattered over and the remaining watercress sauce on the side for drizzling.

WATERCRESS AND ENDIVE SALAD WITH PEARS AND ROQUEFORT

Steps:

• Peel, core and thinly slice the pear. Cut the slices in half so they're not too long. Toss with the lime juice.
• Combine the pears, pecans, watercress, endive, blue cheese and tarragon in a large bowl. Whisk together the vinegar, mustard, salt, pepper, olive oil and walnut oil. Toss with the salad, and serve.