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.
This is a hearty and delicious dish that boasts a huge number of variations. This salad will easily replace almost any second course, and with a side dish!
We offer to prepare a vegetable salad with an original dressing, which includes pomegranate sauce, thanks to this, the salad turns out very tasty, despite the fact that the vegetables included in the salad are the most common.
Very juicy, delicious and light salad. Very juicy light salad. The taste of the dressing resembles the sauce that is added to McDonald’s. The compatibility of the products in this salad is excellent. Try it, I think you’ll like it!
Light and delicious salad. The delicate creamy taste of avocado is perfectly complemented by light salinity, delicious fish and iceberg lettuce leaves give the dish a touch of freshness. It is prepared quickly, immediately served on the table.
I want to offer a quick delicious snack of eggs and olives. Olives should preferably be taken without seeds. It turned out delicious, tender. You can use the snack as a spread on bread. I saw the idea on the Internet.
Real homemade pork is meat baked in the oven. I took her to the hospital. By itself, this part of the pork carcass is not greasy, rather, even dryish. So I added unsalted lard. The buzhenina turned out to be truly festive – both in appearance and in content. Most put it on any festive table.
I offer you a delicate filling for tartlets and pancakes, which is prepared in just a few minutes. On the eve of the holidays and unexpected guests who have visited you, a reminder of such a wonderful way of serving snacks will be very useful, as well as a stock of tuna cans and packing baskets or crackers for beautiful decoration.
