Dainty Watercress Tea Sandwiches Recipes

25 TEA SANDWICHES (+ HIGH TEA MENU)

Steps:

• Select your favorite recipe.
• Organize all the required ingredients.
• Prep a tea sandwich in 30 minutes or less!

EGG & WATERCRESS TEA SANDWICHES

Steps:

• Mash together eggs, mayonnaise, chives, Dijon mustard, salt and pepper.
• Lightly spread slices of bread with butter; spread egg mixture evenly over half of the slices of bread. Top with watercress; cap with remaining bread slices.
• Cut crusts from sandwiches; cut sandwiches into quarters (triangles). Serve immediately.

VICTORIAN WATERCRESS TEA SANDWICHES FOR HIGH TEA AND PICNICS

Steps:

• Snip the stalks from the watercress and place the leafy ends on kitchen paper to absorb any water. Butter the bread generously, arrange the watercress over 4 slices and season. Top with the remaining bread, cut into triangles or fingers and serve.
• NB. (Don't discard the watercress stalks; they can be made into a soup. Soften a chopped onion in a pan with butter, add 250ml whole milk and bring to the boil. Add the stalks, cook for 1 minute then liquidise until smooth and foamy.).

CURRIED EGG & WATERCRESS TEA SANDWICHES

Steps:

• Mash eggs with mayonnaise and curry powder, stir in parsley and season to taste.
• Butter bread and divide filling between 6 slices.
• Add cress, top with remaining slices, remove crusts and serve cut into quarters.

EGG AND WATERCRESS TEA SANDWICHES

Steps:

• Remove the crusts from the bread.
• Chop the eggs, and gently mix in a bowl with the chopped watercress and chives. Add just enough mayonnaise to moisten and bind the mixture the mayonnaise. Season to taste with salt, pepper and Tabasco, and gently mix well.
• Spread half of the slices of bread with the egg and watercress mixture, and place the remaining slices of bread on top.
• Lightly spread the outside edge of each sandwich with mayonnaise and dip into the chopped parsley.
• Cut each sandwich into 4 triangles.
• To serve, arrange the sandwiches on a platter, and garnish with the remaining watercress.

HAM AND WATERCRESS TEA SANDWICHES

Steps:

• Mix cream cheese and chives together well.
• Spread bread slices with the cream cheese mixture. Cover half the slices with watercress leaves, pressing them into the cream cheese. Top the watercress with the ham slices. Cover with the remaining bread slices.
• Cut the crusts off each sandwich and then cut them in quarters or thirds.