Watercress Soup

What is watercress? That should be the question many of you readers are wondering about right now. Watercress is a perennial plants indigenous mostly in Europe and central Asia. "It is one of the oldest known leaf vegetables consumed by human beings" according to many sources of food anthropology, including Watercress.com.

In cooking, watercress gives out a rather bitter and tart taste that is perfect for salad mixes, a contrast to the sweet taste of other greens in its family. The dish i'm preparing tonight is a simple watercress soup with minced pork. Very easy to prepared and little time required. However, the collection of ingredients will be quite hard to find since watercress is not sold in your normal grocery stores. There is one supermarket that sells watercress, by bunches, in College Station area. The store is called an Asian marketplace located near Walmart on 2818. You can contact me for the exact location via email or do a simple search on Google.

Watercress Soup

4 bunches of watercress (3 person servings)
a pinch of salt
1/2 lb. of ground pork (or meat of choice)
minced fried onions
1/4 cup of chopped scallions
1/2 tsp of pepper


Cooking

Brings water to boil (3 cups of water)
Slightly seasons the ground pork with some salt, add the minced fried onions in the meat also.
When water boils, add the seasoned ground pork in the pot and stir slightly until the meat is cooked.
Adds the watercress and turns the heat off after adding the vegetables to avoid overcooked texture.
Adds the chopped scallions and the pepper together.

P.S. Watercress is one of the eight vegetables of V8 juices....a mystery to us all, until now! =]