Lettuce is a precocious crop and it is often the first to appear on the table. According to the terms of consumer ripeness, salads are divided into spring, summer and autumn. Farmers breed mainly four types of salads: leafy, cabbage, romaine and asparagus.
Lettuce is one of the most popular green plants, which is especially appreciated in spring, when the diet lacks vitamins and minerals.
Salad is a delicious dietary vegetable and a mandatory component of the most exquisite dishes of European cuisine. It has a low calorie content and is rich in minerals and vitamins.
Lettuce leaves and heads are usually consumed fresh to prepare various salads mixed with other vegetable crops (cucumbers, tomatoes) or as an independent dish.
How to Mix Lettuce with other Ingredients?
Chopped fresh lettuce leaves are seasoned with vegetable oil, mustard, garlic or onion, salt, lemon juice, vinegar, finely chopped dill, parsley, celery, chervil are added to taste. The salad is also used to prepare the first dishes (soup-puree) boiled cabbage. Salad is also used in stewed and fried form. Lettuce leaves are eaten before the plant forms a stem, as they subsequently become bitter.
Seed (cultural) lettuce is cultivated mainly for nutrition. Latex (lactucarium) is obtained from the stems. The seeds contain good quality oil. For nutrition, young leaves of leafy varieties, heads (cabbage and romaine lettuce), thickened stem (asparagus salads) are used until the flower stem appears.
How to Use Lettuce in Cooking?
Lettuce leaves are an ideal component of simple and delicious vegetable salads, products for which do not require heat treatment. And they also make cute snacks in the form of tubes, rolls, slices, bags, envelopes.
Lettuce leaves remain one of the most interesting ingredients in cooking in general. Firstly, because of its appearance, brightness. Secondly, because of the benefits and taste. You can put any cold snacks, ready-made salads on them. And outwardly it will look more beautiful. They can also be added to any snacks and salads, thereby saturating the dish with vitamins and fiber.
How to Cook with Lettuce?
The simplest, fastest vitamin salad consists of: leaves, boiled eggs, green onions and mayonnaise. All this is chopped and mixed. It is served as a snack or as a spread on bread. It can be used as a filling for pita bread rolls. The combination of green salad leaves and red fish is very interesting, many advise to try it.
The salad is just great! All components are perfectly combined with each other. A lot of good things have been written about the benefits of chickpeas. This salad can be prepared on an empty stomach, when fish days are allowed. I am glad to offer you a recipe.
A very tender salad, thanks to the creamy sauce and chicken liver, and, at the same time, very satisfying (replaces a full dinner for me). Prepare a dish that is very tasty and really satisfying! An iceberg that has crunched can be replaced with ordinary lettuce leaves.
For the first time I tried this salad in the Crimea. And in love. Now this salad is sure to be on every one of our festive tables. Once again reminding us of the rest of the sea.
The classic “Caesar” was created by the Italian Caesar Cardini in 1924. The incredible combination of ingredients makes it extremely tasty, healthy and nutritious! I present you his classic recipe!
I was making a Caesar salad with chicken, salmon and shrimp. In this recipe, the sauce attracted, of course. For the first time I made a sauce based on boiled eggs and with the addition of Worcestershire sauce. What a pleasure!
Spring is lightness, and lightness is light products. The salad is ideal for those who like to have a delicious snack and watch their figure. And how many useful ingredients are in it… With its help, you will be able to perfectly and tastefully kill your appetite in the evening. And by summer your figure will be irresistible!
