Features of making a juicy salad with wild garlic, romaine and cilantro in a spicy mustard-lemon sauce. Benefits and nutritional value. A step-by-step recipe with a photo at home. Video recipe.
Spring, juicy and crispy, and most importantly very healthy - salad with wild garlic, romaine and cilantro in a spicy mustard-lemon sauce. It is very easy to prepare and delicious. The main highlight of this dish is wild garlic. This is the very first greenery that appears in early spring. One bunch of juicy, fragrant and very healthy herb contains as much vitamin C as 1 kg of lemon. And this is exactly the very strong support that is necessary for our weakened spring immunity.
In the people, some wild garlic is also called "wild garlic", because it has the taste and smell of garlic, which is quite strong. Even wild garlic lovers warn to eat this greenery with caution. Otherwise, in a few hours after eating it, people will stay somewhat at a distance from you. Therefore, salads with this herb should not be consumed in the morning before work or before a business meeting.
The second, equally popular herb contained in this recipe is Romaine lettuce leaves. They contain at least a lot of useful substances. There are especially many fat-soluble vitamins, which are better absorbed with fat (in this case, vegetable oil).
- Caloric content per 100 g - 52 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- Ramson - 15 leaves
- Vegetable refining oil - 2-3 tbsp.
- Cilantro - 7-10 branches
- Salt - pinch or to taste
- Romaine lettuce - 3-4 sheets
- Lemon - 2 wedges
- Pasty mustard - 0.5 tsp
- Soy sauce - 1 tablespoon
Step-by-step preparation of a salad with wild garlic, romaine and cilantro in mustard-lemon sauce:
1. Wash Romaine lettuce leaves with very cold water and dry thoroughly. For drying, it is best to use a special centrifuge dryer. If not, then gently dry the leaves with a paper napkin. It is important that they remain firm, crisp and fresh. Then either cut the salad with a knife or tear it with your hands into large pieces, and put everything in a salad bowl.
2. Next, deal with wild garlic. For the salad, it is better to use the first young wild garlic with bright green leaves that have not yet fully expanded. Since this herb grows in the forest and is often sold with the ground, the main thing is to wash the leaves well with cold running water. It is convenient to do this in a colander. Then shake off the leaves to remove excess water, dry with a towel and remove the arrows (peduncles) if any.
For the salad, you can take both the leaves themselves and the stalks. If the petioles are rather stiff and long, then it is better to cut off some of them. Cut the rest of the herb into medium-sized pieces.
If you have a lot of wild garlic, then it is better to cut it, dry it for several hours, place it in an airtight container and freeze it in the freezer. Then you can prepare a salad with wild garlic when its season has already passed. Since these green leaves are not stored for a long time.
3. Wash cilantro with running water and dry with a cotton towel. For salad, you can use either only leaves or leaves with twigs. I take all the weed and just cut the spine.
Chop the cilantro and add to the bowl with the wild garlic and romaine leaves.
4. For seasoning the dish, pour the vegetable oil, soy sauce and mustard into a bowl. I have a pasty mustard, but you can use the grain "French". Squeeze the juice out of the lemon wedges and pour into the sauce. Add a pinch of salt. Add salt carefully so as not to oversalt the salad, because the sauce contains soy sauce, which is already quite salty.
5. Stir the dressing well with a fork or small whisk until smooth.
6. Season the green herbs with the sauce and stir gently to prevent the leaves from choking. Serve the salad with wild garlic, romaine and cilantro in mustard-lemon sauce immediately, otherwise the greens will juice up, the salad will become watery and not so tasty.
If desired, you can add cucumbers, canned corn, green peas and any other greens to such a vitamin salad, the taste will be much brighter.
