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.
“New Year” is the most festive holiday! And many begin to prepare for it long before its onset. The combination of flavors of products in my salad is familiar to many. I hope that the salad will become a worthy decoration of your table.
I do not know why this salad has such a name, but it turns out very tasty and beautiful. Perfect for a festive table. It can be cooked both on a regular dish and in portions.
Something hot is always served at the New Year’s table. I offer you a delicious version of cooking festive meat. It turns out very fragrant and beautiful.
For a quick salad, boil or bake beets in advance, and instead of turnips, you can take rutabaga or radish. Prepare this delicious salad, it will make any menu healthier!
A simple salad with tuna, egg and celery root. Very easy to prepare, but at the same time delicious salad. Cooking will take only twenty minutes. And this salad is also good for sandwiches: put a lettuce leaf on toasted bread, a few spoons of lettuce, cover with a lettuce leaf and another piece of toasted bread.
Along with classic New Year’s salads, prepare a juicy, bright, vitamin salad. You can also use an orange, and then you will get a vitamin bomb of 4 types of citrus fruits! The ratio can be changed. It is better to prepare a small amount to consume without residue. It is prepared several times in portions.
I suggest you try a light fruit and vegetable salad! The apple is here in a new role: we fry it, pepper it and salt it! The salad turns out delicious and interesting!
Salad is a good alternative to the usual Olivier. No less delicious, but a little lighter, with a more delicate structure. The recipe comes from Poland and the Czech Republic, there are several options, for example, with pickles. I liked this one. In order for the dish to turn out right, the main thing in the recipe is to use fragrant meat and peas of good quality.