Salade au Cresson

Name: Salade au Cresson (Watercress Salad)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: Watercress; Dash sugar; 1 teaspoon Dijon-type mustard; 1½ tablespoons wine vinegar; 6 tablespoons olive oil; ½ teaspoon chervil; 1 clove garlic; Freshly ground pepper; ½ teaspoon salt

Watercress Salad

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hows and Whys of French Cooking

By Alma Lach

Published 1974

About

Ingredients

1 clove garlic
½ teaspoon salt
Freshly ground pepper

Europe
France
Bourbonnais
Nivernais
Gluten-free
Vegan
Mediterranean

Method

Mash garlic in salad bowl with the spoon. Add salt, pepper, and mustard. Mash to a pulp. Add vinegar, oil, chervil, and sugar. Mix well. Taste and adjust.
Wash the watercress the day before, break off the tough stems and wrap the watercress in paper towels to dry. Refrigerate until ready to use. It will take a lot of watercress to serve 6. Since the size of a