"Iceberg" is a cabbage lettuce which is one of the most popular grades in the United States of America. It resembles a usual white cabbage superficially, has the same juicy and crunchy, but much more gentle leaves. Salad the Iceberg will be ideal for preparation of salads and snack.
Useful data on salad Iceberg
- Lettuce leaves contain the following minerals: potassium, calcium, sodium, magnesium and phosphorus. Caloric content of 100 grams of a product is only about 15 kcal.
- Salad is eaten fresh, stored in the fridge. After heat treatment it loses the advantage. That the Iceberg kept freshness longer, before storage it is necessary to wash out carefully a head of cabbage, having cut off cabbage stump. Then to cast away on a colander and to allow to dry. Then it is necessary to impose salad with dry paper towels and to place in a package of the Zip Lock lock or in a plastic container with densely closed cover.
- Salad the Iceberg shouldn't be put near apples, peaches and tomatoes, otherwise it will quickly deteriorate - therefore the sealed container is simply necessary for a product. Average storage life in the fridge - up to two weeks.
- Upon purchase pay attention to density of a head of cabbage - if it too friable, then such salad doesn't be bought. Also existence of the sluggish and turned yellow leaves has to guard. The good head of cabbage has the average density and fresh juicy leaves.
- In preparation time of dishes the leaves from a head of cabbage should be separated hands, it is desirable to crush them manually too. The fact is that when using a metal knife the cuts will be oxidized and will gain unpleasant smack.
- Salad the Iceberg can be used not only as recipe ingredient, but also for ornament and laying of dishes. Juicy crunchy leaves are perfectly combined with chicken meat, the baked pork and shrimps.
- Salad has an Iceberg also other name - "Ice slope".
The stuffed lettuce leaves
The interesting and light dish, quantity of portions in preparation can be increased.
Ingredients:
- 12 lettuce leaves Iceberg
- 300 g of boiled chicken meat
- white milk sauce
- fresh greens
- 3 processed cheeses
- 3 boiled eggs
- 1 garlic glove
- mayonnaise, lemon juice
Preparation step by step:
1. Cut meat, slightly fry to a small flush, add sauce and the crushed greens, season to taste. Mix and give to a stuffing to cool down.
2. Grate processed cheese, add the crushed boiled eggs, the garlic which is passed through a press, mayonnaise, a little lemon juice and the crushed greens. Mix.
3. On a half of lettuce leaves lay out meat stuffing, roll rolls, it is possible to fasten with wooden skewers in addition. On other half of leaves place a cheese egg mixture and also roll rolls. At once give to a table.
Caesar salad
This recipe differs from classical Caesar, but also quite successful.
Ingredients:
- lettuce leaves (Iceberg, Romano)
- 100 g of cheddar cheese
- 2 slices of white loaf
- 1/2 glasses of olive oil
- 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon of wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon of the crushed parsley greens
- 1 garlic glove
- 1 h spoon of dry mint
- 1/2 h spoon of ground caraway seeds
- 1/4 h spoon of a sprinkling pepper of Chile
Preparation step by step:
1. Peel garlic, miss via the garlic press. Mix 2 tablespoons of oil, garlic, caraway seeds, Chile and dried mint. Grease with this mix bread slices. Place in an oven and bake at an average temperature within 10 minutes to a flush, then cut in small cubes.
2. Wash lettuce leaves, dry, lay out on a plate, from above place the cheese cut into cubes. For sauce mix other oil, mayonnaise, lemon juice, vinegar and the crushed parsley greens. Sauce salad, strew with wheat croutons.
Nice salad
Ingredients:
- 1 small head of cabbage of salad Iceberg
- 500 g of tomatoes
- 1 jar of a tinned tuna in oil
- 3 tablespoons of olives
- 4 tablespoons of olive oil
- 2 tablespoons of a table vinegar
- 1 tablespoon of the crushed greens
- salt, allspice
Preparation step by step:
1. Wash salad, dry and largely dig hands. Wash tomatoes and thinly cut. Crush a tuna and olives.
2. For salad gas station mix vinegar and spices in a drinking bowl, add 1 tablespoon of oil from a tuna. Now accurately a stream pour in vegetable oil, again mix to uniformity. Fill with sauce salad, strew with greens.
Dietary hamburger
Ingredients:
- 4 round wholegrain buns
- 4 lettuce leaves Iceberg
- 1 tomato
- 1 red bulb
- 1 pickle
- 4 tablespoons of a natural yoghourt
- paprika pinch
For cutlets
- 400 g of fillet of chicken breast
- 1 bulb
- 1 crude egg
- salt, pepper
Preparation step by step:
1. Wash out fillet of a breast, cut, place in the meat grinder together with the cut onions and scroll in forcemeat, add spices, crude egg and you stick together 4 cutlets. Bake them in an oven or prepare by means of the double boiler.
2. Connect yogurt to ground paprika, grease with a half of sauce the cut buns. Wash vegetables, cut with circles, onions - rings. On the lower part of bun place a lettuce leaf, 3 slices of a cucumber, a ring of onions and a slice of a tomato. From above - cutlet, the rest of sauce and the top half of roll. Serve, cutlets warm so far.
Dietary cheese salad and paprika
Ingredients:
- 8 lettuce leaves Iceberg
- 1 red paprika
- 1 fresh cucumber
- 1 tomato
- 1/2 glasses of the red onions cut by half rings
- 1/2 glasses of the crumbed cheese
- 3 tablespoons of olive oil
- 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
- 1 h spoon of a dried oregano
- salt pinch
Preparation step by step:
1. The Iceberg wash out salad, dry by means of paper towels and largely tear hands. Wash a cucumber, peel also seeds and slice. Exempt tomato and paprika from fruit stems and seeds, cut with strips.
2. Connect olive oil, fresh lemon juice, salt and ground leaves of an oregano, shake up salad gas station by means of a nimbus or a fork to uniformity. Water sauce on the mixed vegetables and let's them stand some time to become impregnated. Strew with pieces of cheese and at once serve salad to a table. At will add green olives.
- Council: such salad it is possible to fall as an independent dish and also as a garnish for the baked fish or a chicken.