Hot Watercress Sauce

Name: Hot Watercress Sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 115 g/4 oz watercress; 25 g/1 oz cooked spinach; Salt and freshly ground white pepper; Salt and freshly ground white pepper; 300 ml/½ pint double cream; juice of ½ lemon; 300 ml/½ pint fish stock; 85 ml/3 fl oz dry white wine

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Feast of Fish

By Ian McAndrew

Published 1989

About

Watercress sauce will complement almost any type of fish whether poached, grilled or steamed. It is also good with a fish mousse.

Ingredients

115 g/4 oz watercress
25 g/1

Sauce
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Pick through the watercress to remove any yellowing leaves and wash well. Blend the cooked spinach and the watercress together in a food processor or blender for at least 5 minutes until really fine. If you find that the watercress is a little too dry to go round the machine, add about 25 ml/1 fl oz of the fish stock just to dampen it. If you add too much, however, it will go r