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Wintercress soup and Wintercress Momo

Wintercress, Barbarea vulgaris has been at the top of our menu over the last week.

Prep: 45 mins
Cook: 2 mins
Nettle, Hedge Garlic, Hawthorn, Wintercress, Bittercress

Ingredients

  • 2tbsp olive oil
  • 1 medium red onion
  • 15g fresh root ginger
  • 200g wintercress washed
  • 120g cooked chickpeas
  • 600ml vegetable stock
  • 1tsp sugar
  • 140g plain flour
  • 25ml warm water
  • 1 handful wintercress
  • 1 handful stinging nettles
  • 1 handful jelly ear mushroom

Method

Wintercress soup: gently saute 1 sliced red onion and 15g finely chopped ginger in 2 tbsp olive oil for 10 mins. Blanch 200g wintercress in boiling salted water for 1 min, drain and chop. Add 120g chickpeas, 600ml stock, chopped wintercress, 1 tsp sugar and 0.5 tsp salt. Bring to boil, cook a few minutes, blitz until smooth. Wintercress Momo: mix 140g flour and 25ml warm water to a dough, knead 10 mins, rest. Filling: fry grated ginger and garlic in oil, add pak choi and carrot (2 mins), add blanched and finely chopped wintercress, nettles and jelly ear mushroom with soy sauce. Make rounds from dough, fill and fold. Steam 9 mins.

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