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.
A warm beef salad is my favorite salad, perfect for a light dinner. The right combination of vegetables and proteins, and with soy sauce dressing-in general, you will lick your fingers. Here I write and I already want to eat!
I offer you a meat salad. I prepared similar salads, taking recipes from the Internet, but each time I lacked the completeness of the taste. I experimented with the ingredients, and it turned out to be a salad that finally came to my taste.
Absolutely amazing salad. I can’t even find an epithet for it. It is sweet, sour (not sweet, not sour, as we are only allowed to write the List of permitted flavors, namely sweet, sour), thanks to the sweet persimmon and balsamic vinegar. It has a fishy taste, thanks to the shrimp. Nutty, thanks to the walnut. Well, the taste of avocado is impossible to describe, for everyone it is different. However, I think that men are unlikely to be enthusiastic about it.
A snack that is quickly prepared and looks very elegant on the festive table! Instead of herring, you can use other fish or even cook without it. With cream cheese, various options are combined.
The idea of the recipe belongs to my son, who asked: “Are there chicken boats?” So my mom had to be creative). It turned out to be a delicious aromatic snack, in the preparation of which the frying sheets helped.
