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.
Delicious and extremely appetizing! I often cook such salads, but I have never served them with poached egg. I’ll do it now, I liked it. Crispy iceberg, lightly salted salmon, dried tomatoes and poached egg create a unique taste of salad that will appeal to everyone without exception.
I bring to your attention and strongly recommend this ambiguous salad. It is tender and tart at the same time. It is easy to arrange a holiday for every day and put it on the table – to surprise the guests. Look, decide. Recommend.
We were with my husband in an Italian coffee shop on the last holiday, he ordered a Portofino salad, liked it, asked me to play at home and share with you what I am happy and performing. These are light, fast, affordable (in my opinion) products, and they taste very juicy, fresh and appetizing.
The ingredients of this salad complement each other perfectly. The result is a great salad that will decorate any festive table, especially New Year’s! The salad turns out to be simple, delicious, with a delicate fruit flavor.
I strongly recommend you to try this delicious salad. The crispy texture of iceberg lettuce with the sweetness of an apple or pear and the piquancy of a cherry are harmoniously combined with bird liver. This salad will make a great dinner with a glass of wine. Moreover, I didn’t expect it to be so delicious! I advise you to prepare.
A very bright, summer and healthy salad of grilled chicken breast, strawberries, sweet plums and delicate lemon-flavored dressing! Be sure to try it, you will not remain indifferent!
One of the favorite summer salads is “beauty”, which is prepared in a couple of minutes. The longest in the process is to fry nuts) The salad is light, vitamin-rich, bright. Very feminine, elegant. The girls are crazy about him, the boys also warmly approve.