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You can totally cook lettuce and eat it. It's healthy and tastes just fine. A quick blanch in boiling water is all it takes.
by chongli 4y ago
You can totally cook lettuce and eat it. It's healthy and tastes just fine. A quick blanch in boiling water is all it takes.
- ggm 4y agoCos or Romaine hearts cut into quarters and whacked on a grill for some charring is pretty good too. "Horta" is any green leaves you like, blanched and served with oil and lemon. Sure, it tends to be Dandelion or Rocket or whatever, but I don't think it's specified by the greek ya-yas, its whatever is to hand.
- bradknowles 4y agoGrilled Hispy (?) Cabbage is apparently a thing in cuisine in the UK, if Great British Menu is anything to go by. Typically grilled on an actual fire, at least in most of the episodes I've seen.
- ggm 4y agoI am just back from a trip to Yokohama and was served steamed cabbage heart which had been put into a wooden steamer and cooked over a charcoal fire. It was both steamy-soft, and smokey and delicious to offset the yakitori. I think cabbage is a universal in climates with a real winter: its hardy, it grows into the colder months if you let it, its viable for pickling and salting, and flatulance aside is great nourishment. Shame that kids hate it, but eh, the ones which survive fatten up fast on it, so there's protein latent in cabbage if you need it. Cabbage in school meals in the 60s was indeed served in an ice-cream scoop puddle next to the mince and tatties (or haggis, being scotland)
- euroderf 4y agoI was raised on iceberg lettuce - IMHO bitter biowaste - and discovered the joys of cabbage only later in life. My point being: If you're used to lettuce, give shredded cabbage a try. Not cole slaw, smothered in mayo. Try it with (say) a bit of sesame oil and some sesame seeds.
- yetanotherloser 4y agoI think it's just a recent fad, but it's a fad I'm quite enjoying.
- selimthegrim 4y agoI take it you have some exposure to Chinese cuisine?
- chongli 4y agoYep! Stir fried greens in a simple garlic and chilli sauce is one of my favourite dishes!
- ramraj07 4y agoThat’s just a quick Blanche though, not something I’d take as having a sterilizing effect.
- Leo_Germond 4y agoIf you're not into chinese cooking, there is also some cooked lettuce in French cuisine, with petit pois à la française. That's in season too!
- Scoundreller 4y agoUsually not lettuce, but I’ll throw cut kale and spinach into soups or stirfries all the time. Sometimes fresh, other times frozen.