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 really like celery, more petiolate and root. I can crack it like an apple. By the way, I am completely indifferent to apples, except for apple pies. I constantly use celery, add it to soups and second courses, and even cook salads from it. Here is one of them.
I suggest a salad with obvious Italian motifs: tomatoes, mozzarella, supplemented with lettuce leaves and tuna. On the one hand, freshness, lightness, on the other – cheese and tuna allow you to get enough.
A very easy-to-prepare hearty salad. It was on the menu of the Hans brewery, which my family and I visited this summer in our seaside capital Vladivostok. There is no beer in its composition, it is implied that it is served with beer.
A very fast, delicious and tender salad made from available products. Once upon a time I looked at a salad in a recipe book, since then I often cook it at home. The most important thing is that men also eat this salad with pleasure.
Once I found a recipe for this salad on the Internet, very often it is prepared, suitable for both a festive table and for everyday life. I did not change the name, I indicated it as in the original recipe: since it corresponds to this. A very delicious salad with herring and my favorite French dressing.
This salad is simply AMAZING!!! I tried it at dinner with my husband and with great difficulty broke away from him when I was already scraping at the bottom of the salad bowl. This salad has a zest that gives it this incredibly spicy, fresh, new, unusual taste!
A hearty and at the same time fresh salad, which is not a shame to put on the festive table, because it looks very elegant. The number of products is arbitrary, something more, something less, according to your taste. I put it together literally from what I found in the refrigerator. It was amazing.
A very tasty, light, spicy salad that will decorate any celebration. The orange, which is part of the salad, is its highlight! This gives the salad freshness, juiciness and a festive mood. You can serve it in a regular salad bowl, or in portions, in glass vases or glasses. Help yourself, I am more than sure that many of you will appreciate it. I won’t be modest, but this salad disappears from the table one of the first.