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.
The site presents many options for bean salad. But I suggest filling it with a stunningly delicious dressing, thanks to which the salad acquires a new, incomparable taste and aroma.
I want to offer a very tasty and very simple salad recipe. Initially, this feeling was planned in the leaves of red cabbage, but unfortunately I did not find it. Replaced with ordinary white cabbage.
Agree with everyone who is tired of heavy mayonnaise salads. Now I want something delicious and make it even easier. This salad was not found in the search engine, so cook. Source – Mom, read the recipe in some magazine.
A very tasty salad for meat and dairy gourmets. Iceberg salad, fragrant, tender meat and mint sauce. A lamb’s head can be safely replaced with veal or even chicken.
My friend shared the recipe of this salad with me. Salads in our family are rarely seasoned with mayonnaise, but this is an exception to the rule. It turns out incredibly tender and creamy, very light and delicious! I sincerely advise you to cook!
Personally, I can eat this every day. I don’t need anything else. Warm potatoes with herbs and herring under an amazing dressing. Simple, ordinary, concise, but, in my opinion, very tasty.
I don’t know why this is a “summer whim”, but I liked the salad with its original taste, interesting appearance and ease of preparation. I can’t help but share with you! Let’s start cooking!
I love this salad: crispy, with an inappropriate taste. I came to him on my own when I met all the products listed below on one shelf in the refrigerator, although there are, of course, no discoveries here. Cook it for breakfast, although when you need a vegetable salad for a festive table, it will also look great, it turns out so beautifully. Suitable as a side dish to fatty meat or poultry. And it is very convenient to take with you, we put the main filling on the bottom, and do not mix all the other ingredients before serving.
