From Fine Cooking Magazine

This salad is heavier on greens than on steak, making it a lighter meal.

Watercress Salad with Steak, Sauteed Shallots & Stilton

From Fine Cooking Magazine

Frilly Lettuce Salad on a Bed of Beets with Lemon-Walnut Vinaigrette

From Better Homes and Gardens

Watercress has a peppery bite that provides contrast to mild-mannered asparagus in this simple main-dish salad.

Shrimp & Watercress Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

Watercress gives this vegetarian quiche a peppery bite while wheat berries and egg whites give it a healthy facelift.

Wheat Berry-Watercress Quiche

From Food & Wine

Charles Phan of the Slanted Door in San Francisco serves this sweet and vinegary Vietnamese dish with a tart dipping sauce of lime juice, salt, and pepper. Serve the beef with fresh lime wedges instead of a dipping sauce.

Shaking Beef

From Food & Wine

This salad is a well-rounded meal in itself, supplying a wealth of nutrients, including vitamins A and C. "I grew up in the French countryside," Laurent Gras says. "So vegetable-heavy dishes make me feel like I'm back home."

Crunchy Vegetable Salad with Sauteed Peas and Radishes

From Food & Wine

Takashi Yagihashi crusts strip steak with a spicy wasabi-horseradish cream, then serves it with miso-glazed potatoes and deep-fried salsify (a root vegetable). For a healthier way, coat lean but tasty flank steak with bottled horseradish and wasabi -- no cream. Skip the salsify.

Wasabi Flank Steak and Miso-Glazed Potatoes

From Food & Wine

This lemony stew has a delicious mix of spinach, sorrel, watercress, romaine, and herbs.

Veal Stew with Spring Greens

From Vegetarian Times

30 minutes or fewer. This refreshing salad makes a lively accompaniment for just about any Mediterranean dish, including pizza.

Watercress, Orange and Olive Salad

From Food & Wine

This savory main-course salad is as satisfying as it is restorative. "According to Thai belief, both peas and pea shoots are revitalizing, as well as good for digestion," Su-Mei Yu says. "And escarole strengthens muscles and bones."

Warm Escarole Salad with Snow Peas and Sausage

From Food & Wine

Sophie Dahl likes eating peppery watercress in the spring and has figured out a way to highlight its bright flavor in this silky soup. A single tablespoon of cream gives the vivid green soup a touch of richness.

Zucchini-and-Watercress Soup

From Food & Wine

"This is the dish that sums up the whole collaboration between Chris and me," says Andrew Mariani of Sonoma's Scribe Winery. His friend Chris Kronner, chef at Bar Tartine in San Francisco, sautes guinea hens in bacon fat, then roasts them in Scribe's wood-burning oven; he serves them with vegetables braised in whatever Scribe red wine is on hand.

Roasted Guinea Hens with Braised Vegetables

From Midwest Living

Serve this side dish when you want to add some color to your plate. It's delicious with grilled or roasted beef or chicken.

Goat Cheese and Roasted Beet Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette

From Food & Wine

The fish sauce and peanuts in this seafood stir-fry are hallmarks of Vietnamese cooking. Ample amounts of fresh ginger and lime juice bump up the flavor of the dish.

Vietnamese-Style Shrimp and Watercress Stir-Fry

From Fitness

This low-fat vegetarian meal has only five ingredients, making it a quick dinner for busy weeknights.

Farfalle With Watercress, Cherry Tomatoes and Feta

From Better Homes and Gardens

The piquant flavor of capers perfectly accents the salmon for these colorful appetizers.

Smoked Salmon Stacks

From Better Homes and Gardens

This heart-healthy dish, loaded with omega-3 fatty acids, is ideal for dieters. It has fewer than 150 calories per serving.

Pepper Poached Salmon

From Better Homes and Gardens

Check your farmer's market for spring's first green and white asparagus to star in this refreshing salad.

Asparagus and Tomato Salad

From Food & Wine

Bitter produce like endives, radicchio and kumquats are in peak season in winter.

Winter Greens Salad

From Food & Wine

At Benu, chef Corey Lee fries almonds and peels grapes for his compelling salad. At home, use roasted marcona almonds and unpeeled green grapes.

Watercress Salad with Verjus Vinaigrette

From Food & Wine

Kevin O'Connor, former wine director at Spago restaurant in Beverly Hills, roasts chicken with white wine, whole garlic cloves and plenty of herbs; then he takes some of the fragrant juices left in the pan and mixes them into sauteed morel mushrooms and a lush vinaigrette for watercress.

Roasted Herb Chicken with Morels and Watercress Salad

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Mushroom Salad with Walnuts and Watercress

From Better Homes and Gardens

All aspects of this healthy dinner salad can be made ahead and kept refrigerated until serving time. An Asian-influenced salad dressing adds flavor to this asparagus, pea pod, and chicken salad.

Sesame Vegetable Salad

From Vegetarian Times

Because green papayas can be hard to find even in Asian grocery stores, this twist on a traditional Thai recipe calls for tart green apples instead. Sambal oelek, a chili paste from Southeast Asia, can be found with the hot sauces in many supermarkets or ordered online.

Mock Green Papaya Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

Creamy salmon-caper filling, topped with watercress, makes these bite-size sandwiches a perfect appetizer or snack for small gatherings. Poach the salmon and make the dressing a day ahead of serving. Assemble the sandwiches shortly before serving.

Go Fish Salmon Sandwiches