For your enjoyment…

Do you feel the same as I do on weekends on or special holidays, or when you have guests over? I’d like to cook something very special, not the usual fare. Then I’m either spoiled for choice or I can’t think of anything at all. If even intensively searching the internet turns out to be fruitless or leafing through piles of cookbooks doesn’t turn up any solution, try our Recipe of the Month!

From the chefs of the Schick Restaurants in Vienna, every month there is a new, seasonal recipe from Austrian-Spanish or Viennese cuisine for you to prepare and enjoy at home! If you don’t want to have to prepare the recipe yourself, you can order the finished dish in comfort at the corresponding Schick Restaurant and indulge all around…

In February 2015 – recipe by Roman Rothmayer – chef of the decorated Restaurant “Das Schick”:

Cream soup of water cress . gambas

Ingredients for 4 servings:

½ l whipping cream
1 large onion
2 potatoes (for binding)
4 prawns
½ l water or vegetable stock
2 garlic cloves
1 bunch of water cress
salt
pepper
oil

Preparation:

Peel onions and potatoes, cut into larger pieces and sweat in a pot with some oil. Slice a clove of garlic and add to the pot. Pour water (vegetable stock) and whipping cream into the pot. Simmer on medium heat.

When the potatoes are soft (about as soft as for a purée), allow the soup to cool for approximately 15 minutes.

Wash the water cress, briefly blanch in boiling water, and quench in cold water.

Peel the prawns if necessary, cut along their backs with a small knife and remove the intestines. Sauté the prawns in a pan with oil. At the end, slice the clove of garlic and add it to the pan, toss and set aside.

Blend the blanched water cress with the cooled soup in an electric blender (pay attention to the capacity of the blender and purée twice if necessary). After mixing, fill the pot with the soup again, stir with a wire whisk and season to taste (with salt, pepper, etc.).

Arrange the soup with the prawns on a soup plate and garnish as desired – as in our photo, for example – and enjoy.

We wish you much success!