How to pick up the latest watercress in 2023 is extremely simple and effective

Watercress is a vegetable that contains a lot of nutritional value and appears popular on Vietnamese family rice trays. But perhaps, what most housewives are most concerned about today is not knowing how to pick up watercress properly. No matter what product you buy, you will not be able to skip the preliminary processing of ingredients. The careful preparation of ingredients will help you create quality dishes, ensuring absolute food hygiene and safety. The following article shared by Dung Ha Dry Agricultural Products will provide the most detailed answers to readers on how to pick up watercress properly, effectively and as quickly as possible.

1. What is a watercress vegetable?

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2. How to pick up watercress in detail, properly and extremely economical

2.1 How to choose to buy fresh watercress

• Check the shape of vegetables: Choose watercress plants with smooth, fresh green leaves that are not wilted, crushed, withered or rotted.
• Check the vegetable roots: Watercress roots should be white or light yellow. No abnormal signs such as spoilage
• Vegetable flavor: Bring watercress close to your nose and feel their scent. Fresh watercress will have a pleasant aroma, no odors or unpleasant odors for you
• Learn about the season of watercress: Avoid buying watercress off-season, because off-season watercress is not fresh, does not taste good and the price is not reasonable
• Origin and quality: Choose to buy watercress from reputable stores in your area. You can easily buy watercress at local markets, supermarkets or large commercial centers such as: Dung Ha Agricultural Products, WinMart, Bach Hoa Xanh, etc. to stabilize the price, the vegetables are always fresh and delicious.

2.2 Ingredients and tools for picking vegetables

• Watercress
• Rice water
• Wash vegetables
• Basket of clean vegetables

2.3 Processing vegetable stalks

• When you buy watercress, use scissors (or a knife) to completely cut off the watercress stalk clinging to the mud
• To put the watercress in the basket, continue the process of picking vegetables

2.4 Divide young leaves, old leaves and rotten leaves

• Using your hands, pick up the young and old vegetables and put them in the basket
• If you see rotten vegetables, yellow leaves, broken boots, etc., immediately leave

2.5 Wash watercress

• Watercress after removing roots, young leaves, is old and rotten leaves. The next thing you need to do is wash the watercress with clean water
• To keep watercress fresh, remove dirt and all harmful chemicals during the sowing process, soak watercress with diluted salt water (or rice water) for about 15 minutes.
• Watercress has finished soaking, you pick up the vegetables, let the vegetables dry
• Neatly put the watercress together, hold it tightly and proceed to cut the watercress into pieces

Note: In the process of washing vegetables, please wash the vegetables very gently, avoid washing them vigorously, causing them to be crushed, when cooking is no longer delicious.

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3. Revealing some delicious dishes from watercress

3.1 Stir-fried watercress with garlic is delicious

• 1 bunch watercress
• Refined salt
• Minced garlic
• Fish sauce
• Cooking oil
• Seasoning: seasoning, main noodles

• When you buy watercress, you use your hands to pick up the young vegetables to eat
• Remove the old, rotten, wilted vegetables, … discard
• Wash watercress under a basin of clean water to remove dirt
• Mix a basin of dilute salt, put watercress in and soak for 5 minutes with dilute salt water to remove impurities
• Pick up the watercress, rinse with clean water. Let the watercress drain. Fold up the watercress and cut it into pieces
• Put cooking oil in a pan and heat it
• When the oil is hot, add minced garlic and fry until golden brown and fragrant
• Add watercress and saute with garlic for 15 minutes. Stir fry until the vegetables are cooked evenly
• Put fish sauce + seasoning + seasoning seeds + main noodles in the pan with stir-fried watercress
• Stir well to mix the spices with the vegetables
• Season with stir-fried watercress to taste
• Stir-fry vegetables to taste, turn off the heat and scoop the vegetables onto a plate and enjoy when hot

3.2 Watercress cooked with minced pork

• 1 bunch of watercress
• 200g minced pork shoulder
• Refined salt
• Fish sauce
• Seasoning: seasoning, main noodles

• When you buy watercress, you pick up the edible parts
• Remove all rotten, yellowed vegetables, stamp out the boots
• Rinse watercress under running water to remove dirt
• Mix in a pot of dilute salt, put watercress in and soak for 5 minutes with dilute salt water to remove impurities
• Pick up the watercress, rinse with clean water. Let the watercress dry, drain
• Neatly stack the watercress together. Proceed to cut the watercress very small
• Put 1 liter of purified water in a pot and bring to a boil
• Boiling water, add minced pork and cook for 10 minutes
• Put the watercress in the pot of ground pork and cook for 15 minutes
• Put into the soup pot including: fish sauce + spices + seasoning seeds + main noodles. Gently stir to dissolve the seasoning
• Season the soup to fit my mouth
• The soup is just right, you turn off the stove and scoop the soup into a bowl and then wake up as soon as the soup is hot

3.3 Watercress soup cooked with dried shrimp

• 1 bunch of watercress
• 50g dried shrimp
• Refined salt
• Seasoning: seasoning, main noodles

• When you buy watercress, you pick up the tops of young vegetables to use
• Remove all old leaves, yellow leaves, wilted, damaged, … discard
• Rinse watercress under running water to remove dirt
• Mix in a pot of dilute salt, put watercress in and soak for 5 minutes with dilute salt water to remove impurities
• Pick up the watercress, continue rinsing with clean water. Let the vegetables dry and drain
• Neatly stack the watercress together. Chop the watercress into small pieces
• Wash dried shrimp with clean water. Let the shrimp drain
• Put 1 liter of pure water in a pot and bring to a boil
• Boil water, add watercress and cook for 15 minutes
• Add dried shrimp and cook with watercress for 10 minutes
• Put into the soup pot including: fish sauce + spices + seasoning seeds + main noodles. Stir well until seasoning dissolves
• Season the soup to fit my mouth
• The soup is just right, turn off the stove, scoop the soup into a bowl and enjoy it as soon as the soup is hot

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3.4 Watercress soup cooked with mushrooms

• 1 bunch of watercress
• 60g fresh straw mushrooms
• 1 cover of tofu
• Refined salt
• Seasoning: seasoning, main noodles, ground pepper

• When you buy watercress, you pick up the young leaves to eat
• Remove all rotten, wilted vegetables, stamp out the boots
• Wash watercress under clean running water to remove dirt
• Mix in a pot of dilute salt, put watercress into it and soak it in dilute salt water for 5 minutes to remove impurities
• Pick up the watercress, rinse the watercress with clean water. Let the watercress dry, drain
• Neatly stack the watercress together. Chop the watercress into small pieces
• Fresh straw mushrooms washed under running water. Let the mushrooms drain. Cut the mushrooms in half
• Tofu sliced into small square pieces
• Put 1 liter of pure water in a pot and bring to a boil
• Boil water, add watercress and cook for 15 minutes
• Add fresh straw mushrooms to the pot and cook for 10 minutes
• Put the tofu in the pot and cook for another 5 minutes
• Put spices + seasoning seeds + main noodles into the soup pot. Gently stir to dissolve the seasoning
• Season the soup to fit my mouth
• The soup is just right, turn off the stove, scoop the soup into a bowl and enjoy it as soon as the soup is hot

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3.5 Stir-fried watercress with beef

• 1 bunch of watercress
• 150g beef ribs
• 1 onion
• Refined salt
• Minced garlic
• Cooking oil
• Fish sauce
• Seasoning: seasoning, main noodles, ground pepper

• When you buy watercress, you pick up the young leaves to eat
• Remove all rotten, wilted vegetables, stamp out the boots
• Wash watercress under clean running water to remove dirt
• Mix in a pot of dilute salt, put watercress into it and soak it in dilute salt water for 5 minutes to remove impurities
• Pick up the watercress, rinse the watercress with clean water. Let the watercress dry, drain
• Peel the onion, wash it, and cut it into thin slices
• Put beef in a bowl, put in a bowl of beef including: fish sauce + seasoning seeds + ground pepper. Mix well with beef
• Marinate the beef for about 15 minutes to infuse the flavors
• Put cooking oil in a pan and bring to a boil
• When oil is hot, add minced garlic + onion and fry until golden brown, fragrant
• Add the beef and saute until cooked through for 10 minutes. Remove the beef to the bowl
• Continue using the pan, put cooking oil in the pan and boil the oil
• When oil is hot, add watercress and sauté for 10 minutes
• Put spices + seasoning seeds + main noodles in the watercress pan. Stir well for the seasoning to dissolve
• Pour the bowl of cooked beef into the watercress pan. Stir well for 5 minutes
• Season the food to your taste
• The dish is delicious, turn off the stove, scoop it out on a plate and use it when it’s hot

4. Conclude