Potaje canario de berros (Canarian watercress soup) (TM)

Potaje canario de berros (Canarian watercress soup) (TM)

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Servings:	Serves 6
Ready in:	1 hour 5 minutes
Prep. time:	15 minutes
Cook time:	50 minutes
Difficulty:

This Thermomix recipe is for an unusual watercress soup from the Canary Islands.

Ingredients

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• 400g watercress
• 800g water
• 50g extra virgin olive oil
• 3 large cloves garlic
• 70g panceta, cut into pieces
• 1 corn cob
• 200g yam [presumably chopped]
• 400g potatoes
• 2 vegetable stock cubes or salt
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 200g cooked white beans

Method

1. Put half the water and half the watercress in the bowl 10 seconds / Speed 4-5.
2. Drain the watercress and reserve the water.
3. Do the same with the rest of the water and watercress.
4. Drain and put the watercress with the previous batch and reserve the water also with the previous.
5. Put the oil and the garlic into the bowl and chop 4 seconds / Speed 5.
6. Add the panceta 5 seconds / Temp. Varoma / Reverse Blade / Speed Spoon.
7. Incorporate the corn cob, cut into rounds, the yam, watercress and water 20 mins / Temp. Varoma / Reverse Blade / Speed Spoon.
8. Add the potatoes, cut into pieces, the paprika, stock cubes and the cumin 20 mins / Temp. Varoma / Reverse Blade / Speed Spoon.
9. 10 minutes before the end, add the white beans through the hole in the lid.

Recipe source

• This is a translation of a recipe in Thermomix TM31 - Imprescindible para tu cocina which is the book supplied with Spanish TMXs