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.
An interesting and bright salad of pieces of smoked chicken breast, tomatoes, eggs, green peas and lettuce leaves with a spicy dressing of mayonnaise and white horseradish!
A very tasty, light, healthy and savory salad from familiar foods is good in itself, like a light dinner, and will be an excellent side dish for fish or meat.
There are salads, which in themselves are a full-fledged dish, and not just a snack. A warm vegetable salad with creamy onion sauce from their category turns out to be satisfying and delicious.
Our family loves salads with lots of greens. This is especially true in the spring. Therefore, we have to constantly invent something new to diversify the menu. I offer you a quick and delicious salad for the whole family.
A very simple and very tasty salad. It is both light, thanks to greens and vegetables, and at the same time satisfying, thanks to cheese, eggs and meat. And you can take any meat, I had the remains of a barbecue, a couple of pieces, you can add ham or ham, or just boiled meat from the refrigerator. The dressing, based on soy sauce, only emphasizes the taste.
This salad has not only a beautiful presentation, but also a great taste. Mushrooms, tomatoes and eggplants are perfectly combined, and they are complemented by an amazingly delicious dressing with paprika and green onions.
