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.
I present to you a very tasty, bright and vitamin salad! Vegetable oil-based dressing gives flavor and piquancy, and roasted chickpeas gives the dish an interesting crispy note and richness. Despite the fact that this salad is lean, it is also suitable for your festive table!
The benefits of red beans for the body are due to the huge content of antioxidants, thiamine, tryptophan, valuable amino acids, a large amount of protein – 8 g per 100 g of the product. Beans saturate, slow down the aging process, serve as a source of useful vegetable protein, which is why nutritionists recommend including red beans in the diet of people of retirement age and from time to time replace it with meat and fish.
After I had heard enough delicious stories about overseas treats during my foreign trips, this salad was born. Very tasty, spring-like, bright! A kind of union of Europe and Asia. For a quick preparation, even more intense taste and aroma, I discovered a mixture of bulgur with mushrooms and spices from Mistral. It tastes better than just bulgur, believe me!
I suggest you try a salad based on a salad mix (a mixture of small-leaved salads) with the addition of shrimp, avocado, which has a unique creamy taste, olives and tomato slices. And all this is seasoned with a wonderful hot sauce.
A very light and tender tuna and vegetable salad! Perfect for a snack, light lunch or dinner. Salad will also appeal to those who follow the figure and adhere to the rules of healthy eating!)
A very interesting combination of scallop and bacon. This salad will allow you to diversify your New Year’s table. The salad turns out delicious both warm and cold.
