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Cress for Easter is as important a symbol as catkins, bunny and Easter eggs. She can’t miss it. Although growing cress for Easter is neither laborious nor time-consuming and usually ends in success, it happens that in the heat of pre-Christmas preparations, we remember about it at the last moment. Fortunately, watercress is not demanding, it germinates and grows quickly. It takes less than a week to become an effective decoration of a festive table and an addition to many dishes or their decoration. It is most often added to salads, it is used to decorate sausages, meats and sandwiches, eggs with mayonnaise, it is used for pastes, as an addition to soups. Watercress perfectly enhances the taste of cottage cheese, it can replace parsley or dill on potatoes.
Cress – what is this plant?
Garden cress, or rather seed pepper (Latin: Lepidium sativum) is an annual plant of the cabbage family. It comes from South-West Asia and Egypt, but nowadays it is also popular in Europe and North America. It is also appreciated by the people of India. Its popularity stems from Due to the fact that it is a very undemanding plant, it is easy to grow it at home and enjoy its characteristic, slightly spicy taste at any time of the year.
Cress grows quickly and is not demanding. Shutterstock/Voyagerix
Cress for Easter – an important rule
Cress for Easter has a chance to appear, but you need to provide it with the right conditions. In order for cress seeds to germinate quickly, they should be warm, moist and bright. Sown on a layer of very moist cotton wool or lignin, it is good to cover them with transparent foil and put them on the windowsill, above the radiator. Seeds will start to sprout a day or two after sowing, remember to keep the cress moist, so it is worth spraying it with water from time to time. In the five days until Christmas, the seedlings should be about four to five centimeters tall.
Fish fillets with parmesan cheese, avocado and watercress according to Jamie Olivier’s recipe photo. Marcin Klaban / Agencja Wyborcza.pl
Cress for Easter, but not only
Next to catkins, eggs and a bunny, it is one of the symbols of Easter and the coming spring, when everything around is getting green and everything comes to life. Green cress, apart from being an effective decoration of the festive table, gives dishes a slightly spicy taste, it also has quite a lot of vitamins and healing properties. Cress seedlings provide us with vitamins A, C and K, they are also a source of potassium, magnesium, calcium and iron, they have antioxidant and anti-cancer properties. For this reason, it is worth making sure that watercress appears in our menu more often than once a year.
Source: Gazeta
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