English Name Cress, Watercress

Alias Watercress, Water Mustard Watercress

Scientific Name Nasturtium officinale R.Br.

Family Cruciferae Watercress

What is Watercress, Watercress

Beans are perennial aquatic herbaceous plants in the genus Brassica campestris. It is a perennial aquatic herb. Native to Europe, it was introduced to China by Portugal in the 19th century, and there are wild varieties in many areas of China, India and Southeast Asia. China to Guangzhou, Shantou area and Guangxi cultivated more. In recent years, the northern region and the introduction of high-quality varieties of large leaves from Europe, the use of dryland planting or soilless cultivation, has been a larger two accumulations of development and utilization of its tender stems and leaves edible, pungent odor.

The bean curd plant is about 30 centimeters high, creeping or semi-prostrate clumping stems round, solid in the young, hollow after growing old, green, with most of the nodes; each section can occur branching and fibrous roots, the fibrous roots of the moist environment that is the elongation of growth. Leaves alternate, one per node, odd pinnately compound, leaflets 1 to 4 pairs, ovate or suborbicular, apical leaflets are larger, dark green, turning dark purple at low temperatures. Racemes of tiny, bisexual flowers with white corollas. The pods contain 30-40 seeds, which are tiny, flat-ellipsoid, yellow-brown, weighing about 0.25 grams per thousand, and 580 grams of seeds per liter. The germination power can last for 5 years.

Morphological features

Perennial aquatic herb. The whole plant is glabrous and much branched. Stem height 20～40cm., hollow, submerged stem creeping, nodes rooting, multi-branching. Oddly pinnately compound leaves alternate; leaflets 3-7, dark green, leaves pinnately parted, ovate or broadly ovate, about 6cm, apical lobes large, lateral lobes small, oblong, with a few undulate teeth on the edge or entire, long-stalked. Racemes terminal, sepals oblong; petals white. Long-horned fruit columnar, flattened, with a short beak. Seeds numerous, in two rows, ovate, maroon. Flowering and fruiting from March to August. ************************************************** Cucumber Spare Ribs Soup

Ingredients: six taels of spare ribs, a handful of six taels of watercress, 2 or 3 honey dates (if someone in the family has a cough or a sore throat, you can add some south almonds)

Methods:

Spare Ribs Flying water, add water to roll after turning small fire to boil for about 40 minutes, under the honey dates, Xiyangcai washed large with the hands of the hand to break and tear short, the whole strip is also OK, into the soup, and then rolled and turned to a small fire for ten or twenty minutes to put a teaspoon of salt on the good. (Cantonese people usually use the fire stew on two or three hours, until all the stems and leaves are soft and rotten. But I think the boiling time is too long, too much nutritional loss, so I usually do not stew for so long) If the cough for a long time, the soup time should be extended, if the cough itchy throat, you can add ginger 2-3 slices of the same boil

Western cabbage raw fish soup

Materials: 750 grams of watercress, jujube 5, raw fish 500-600 grams of pork 120 grams of ginger 3-4 slices.

Practice:

1, the first raw fish scales, intestinal organs, wash, drain, raw oil in a pot, slightly frying shovel up;

2, honey dates, wash, remove the core, a little soaked;

3, pork wash;

4, watercress wash, pick short;

5, and then together into the tile pot, add 1200 ml of water (about 12 bowls of water), the martial arts, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water. About 12 bowls of water), martial arts boiled, changed to the fire boiled for 3 hours, seasoned with the right amount of salt will be done.

Effects:

Sheng fish cold taste sweet, have the role of spleen and yin;

pork is also sweet, can strengthen the spleen and dry;

ginger is pungent and warm, can strengthen the stomach to dispel dampness. The watercress and jujube are used together to clear and moisturize better;

Raw fish and pork are used together to clear and moisturize and increase the function of strengthening the spleen, so that the spleen can be healthy and transportation and fluid can be restored. Combined into a soup, can clear the dry heat and yin fluid, nourish the stomach and thirst, moistening the lungs can stop coughing. It can help people to live in peace at the end of the year, known as the "natural dry rescue lung soup".

Shrimp Shanghai Wonton

Information :150g minced pork, 300g watercress, 160g finely chopped shrimp, 3 fresh mushrooms, 200g Shanghai Wonton Skin, green onion

Seasoning:1/3 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon cornstarch, 2 teaspoons light soy sauce, sesame oil and a pinch of ground pepper

Do :

(1) Remove the stem and cut the mushrooms into small pieces. Cut the mushrooms into small pieces.

(2) Wash the watercress, saute with oil and salt water until soft, then chop it.

(3) Add the minced pork, mushroom, watercress and seasoning and mix well to form a stuffing.

(4) Put the stuffing and shrimp into each wonton skin and wrap it into wonton, put it into boiling water and cook until done. Then put into the broth or soup with salt, soy sauce, sesame oil and pepper, and finally sprinkle with onion flowers.