Leaf salad: types and benefits

Leaf lettuce is used for food, mainly together with other vegetables or as part of a complex side dish to dishes. Many of its varieties make it possible to use this product to enhance the taste and aroma of cooked culinary delights. In addition, it is indispensable for those who want to lose weight. Salad as a vegetable culture is divided into leaf and head.

All about leaf salads

Leaf salad is a plant of a classical type, of an understandable shape, based on the name. Familiar and loved by many people, it has a huge variety of varieties, often the same variety is called differently, confusing consumers. The following types of leaf lettuce are most often found and used in cooking:

- lettuce;

- Lollo-Rosso;

- oak salad;

- arugula;

- Watercress;

- Endive.

Each species is unique in its own way, has a bright saturated flavor, combined with various ingredients.

Lettuce Salad

Classic Lettuce Since ancient times, grows in our country everywhere. It has an unpleasant taste, its leaves are soft, soft. The main thing when growing this variety of salad is not to oversleep the time of its collection, because, overdone, it forms a kind of head, it becomes tasteless. If the plant lived in a place where it lacked moisture and light, it is likely that the leaves will acquire an unpleasant bitter taste. This kind is well combined with vegetables, it is advisable to use it in the preparation of sandwiches.

Oak salad

Oak leaf salad received its name because of the similarity with the leaves of a similar tree. It can acquire both green and burgundy color, it is good at adding in dishes from champignons, a salmon as has unostentatious nutty smack.

Rucola Salad

Rucola Salad Many signs in combination with parmesan cheese and cherry tomatoes. It has an invigorating effect, despite its neutral taste. Only leaves are added to the dish, as the stems have a bitter taste. This leaf lettuce, unlike most of its counterparts, grows in separate leaves, has a mustard-nutty flavor with a touch of hot pepper. Coming to us from the Mediterranean cuisine, it came to the liking of many lovers of mozzarella cheese in combination with olive oil and small sweet tomatoes.

Cress salad

The vegetable paddock is another name for watercress, widely used in the Caucasus and used in cooking masterpieces of local cuisine. It has a tart, slightly sharp taste, contains mustard oil and, in general, serves as an excellent additive to salads, meat or fish dishes.

How useful is a salad?

When eating salads of any type and kind, the organism receives microelements (phosphorus, potassium, folic acid, iron, magnesium, calcium), is saturated with vitamins of group A, which contributes to strengthening the nervous system, preventing colds, and regulating metabolism.

The use of leaf lettuce is also in the fact that it is included in the menu of people suffering from problems with the gastrointestinal tract, atherosclerosis, diabetes mellitus. Thanks to the content of fiber and low calorie, it is advisable to take it for food and those who want to get rid of excess weight. And the taste of this product allows you to add it to almost any dish.