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.
After listening to delicious stories about overseas treats on foreign trips, such a salad was born. Very tasty, spring-like, bright! Union of Europe and Asia. For the speed of cooking, even more intense taste and aroma, I discovered a mixture of bulgur with mushrooms and spices.
Today I offer improvisation for your consideration) I really wanted to try small black lentils, and I wanted to have breakfast and eat an egg… It turned out to be a very tasty, healthy and hearty breakfast)
The composition of the salad includes lentils, which contains many vitamins. Our body needs these vitamins in large quantities.Lentils do not lose their useful properties during heat treatment, after heat treatment the substances remain in constant quantity and form. The salad also includes a green apple.
Delicious, light salad with green vegetables. Salad according to this recipe turns out to be very light thanks to vegetables, but quite satisfying thanks to chickpeas.
Light, unpretentious salad. The piquant, slightly mustard taste of capers will give juiciness and brightness to any salad. Let’s try to cook according to one of the recipes!
I suggest you try a delicious vitamin salad. I hope it will be interesting to avocado lovers! A simple recipe for a delicious, healthy and light salad. Mozzarella cheese goes well with vegetables.
A simple and healthy salad of red beans, green apple and red onion. This salad uses ingredients that not only go well with each other, but are also useful. Red beans are rich in B vitamins, which we need to strengthen the nervous system and immunity, which is especially important in spring.
Green apples and red onions have the same properties.
An unusual salad with Lima beans is fresh and hearty. Play with colors and flavors, mix red with green and yellow, sweet with salty and fresh, try Thai cuisine. The original salad according to this recipe is a whole rainbow of impressions.
A simple delicious salad for lovers of spicy! Delicious, spicy and savory salad. One of the most delicious salads in Korean. Red beans are ideal for the “spicy motifs” of Korean dishes. The salad turns out to be piquant and very tasty, while it practically does not require any effort to prepare.