{"id":1294,"date":"2014-04-15T22:22:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T06:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2016-04-13T11:09:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T19:09:36","slug":"watercress-salad-in-broth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/watercress-salad-in-broth\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Watercress Salad in Broth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ingredients of the broth are pretty minimal, consisting only ginger, garlic, and onion. The whole point of this dish is to showcase the freshness and natural flavours of any vegetables you put in the dish. This is a very common way for Cantonese folks to enjoy eating fresh vegetables.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140415-232059.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full\" title=\"Warm Watercress And Lotus Seed Salad in a Broth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140415-232059.jpg\" alt=\"Warm Watercress And Lotus Seed Salad in a Broth\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warm Watercress And Lotus Seed Salad in a Broth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To make the broth to serve 4:<br \/>\n8 cups water<br \/>\n2 tbsp ginger, finely chopped<br \/>\n2 tbsp garlic, finely chopped<br \/>\n1 onion, chopped<br \/>\nsalt and pepper to taste<\/p>\n<p>Wrap ginger, garlic and onion in a cheese clothe, tie the corners to form a herb bouquet, \u00a0put the bouquet in boiling water in a soup pot on medium <a style=\"text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal; color:#000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myanxietymeds.com\/product\/valium\/ \"> buy diazepam online forum <\/a> high heat for about 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Here are what I put in the Watercress Salad:<br \/>\n4 cups watercress<br \/>\n2 cups lotus seeds<br \/>\n1 cup preserved cabbage<br \/>\n1 cup pickled bamboo shoot<br \/>\n1 cup enoki mushroom<br \/>\n1\/2 cup soft tofu<br \/>\n2 tsp sesame oil<br \/>\n1 tsp chilli flakes<\/p>\n<p>The ingredients just need to blanched\u00a0in hot water\u00a0for 5 &#8211; 10 minutes before being tossed in the broth. \u00a0The trick is that the water has to be boiling in high heat and you have to turn the heat to the lowest once you put in the vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>You can replace 2 cups of the water with the same amount of chicken broth or fish broth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ingredients of the broth are pretty minimal, consisting only ginger, garlic, and onion. The whole point of this dish is to showcase the freshness and natural flavours of any vegetables you put in the dish. This is a very common way for Cantonese folks to enjoy eating fresh vegetables. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[102,99,83,7,1,112,113,119,88],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140415-232059.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7042,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/7042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}