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.
Try a very tasty, easy-to-prepare bean salad with ricotta cheese, which will diversify your menu and, I hope, will be to your taste. Very simple to prepare.
This light and juicy salad is perfect for grilled chicken, and I think it will go well with shish kebab. I served it with fried chicken, it was delicious.
Delicious and healthy salad of vegetables baked in the oven. For this recipe, you can use different root vegetables, in my version, carrots, parsnips and sweet potatoes are best.
Very fresh, light salad of extraordinary taste! For those who like unusual combinations of sour, sweet and salty. Even my husband, who winces when he finds out that the salad is without mayonnaise, ate it on both cheeks and asked for more.
A simple, delicious, healthy salad made from fresh vegetables. Colorful vegetables improve our mood. In just 10 minutes, you will create a perfect salad for the whole family.
Good day! I present to you a very tasty, healthy, low-calorie and bright salad. The products blend well together. Now this salad will become permanent on my table!
In the vastness of the Internet, I met this recipe. Thank you very much to the author, there is no name, but only the name of the restaurant, and I can’t write it. The salad is very simple, but delicious.
With the onset of spring, our body begins to demand more vegetables and greens. Hearty side dishes are fading into the background and we are increasingly preparing various salads. I like to add a large amount of fresh salad and try to complement the salad with something interesting, whether it is pieces of chicken or liver, grated cheese or egg. Recently, the magazine looked like a salad with tender zucchini balls. I immediately wanted to try this option. It turned out that the site has a salad with zucchini balls. I will still add my own version, they are different in composition. And you do not hesitate and cook. The salad is very tasty and satisfying.
