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Watercress Salad

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Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. four tablespoonfuls of oil
  2. a tablespoon ful of vinegar
  3. five cold boiled potatoes
  4. Black pepper
  5. a tablespoonful of sugar
  6. four bunches of watercress
  7. a pinch of cayenne
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Wash three or four bunches of watercress and drain them, slice four or five cold boiled potatoes very thin and mix with the following sauce ;
  2. four tablespoonfuls of oil, half a tablespoon ful of vinegar, salt and black pepper to taste, one shalot minced up fine, half a pinch of cayenne, and half a tablespoonful of sugar.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Colander