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.
Very tasty! Advice to those who will cook for the first time: grapes need to be taken for, the taste of the salad largely depends on it! From mayonnaise, you can make a homemade sauce made from egg yolks, butter, corn and parmesan. Pleasant aroma.
Such a hearty salad can serve as a main course in a fast or serve as an excellent snack. A delicious combination of products perfectly complements the bright dressing.
My full name of the salad is “light salad “A breath of air” for those tired of feasts”!!! A few days ago I was visiting a bosom friend. We tried a simple salad. It was delicious and fresh! The next day I changed it by adding a few ingredients and replacing one ingredient, and cooked it for dinner.
When I made this salad, my eldest daughter said, “Oh, it’s almost olivier!” Just no potatoes, no carrots, no lettuce leaves…That’s why we now call him “almost Olivier”. When you want to get a familiar taste and at the same time reduce the number of calories in a salad or just make it easier. In the presence of ready-boiled or baked chicken meat, it turns out very easily and quickly. And do not hesitate to serve it to the festive table. Let’s start cooking!
Everyone wanted to refresh the salad with their favorite dressing, and our family liked the taste. I hope that you will be able to appreciate the refueling. Very tasty, simple, affordable, beautiful, elegant. A very colorful and very tasty salad, just in order to dilute complex meat dishes.
My grandmother often cooked us this delicious green borscht. Now I’m preparing it for my family. The recipe is very simple and the taste is very amazing. Especially if the summer time and all the fresh greens get excellent. Well, if you have frozen vegetables, it’s okay. Try to cook.
