1. Do you need to blanch the lettuce before eating?

Lettuce can be boiled directly without scalding.

Lettuce contains a lot of water-soluble inorganic salts and vitamins, but little oxalic acid. Boiling water will make lettuce lose a lot of nutrients, so lettuce can be boiled into soup after washing, peeling and dicing.

2. One of the practices of lettuce soup

Ingredients: 200 grams of tofu, 25 grams of carrots, 25 grams of mushrooms, and appropriate amount of lettuce leaves.

Seasoning: salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, vegetable oil, Jiang Mo and chicken soup.

Exercise:

2. 1. Wash tofu and cut into small pieces; Wash carrots, blanch with boiling water, take out and cut into cubes; Wash the water-soaked mushrooms and dice them; Wash lettuce leaves and chop them.

2.2. Pour vegetable oil into the pot and heat it to 70% heat. Add diced mushrooms and carrots and stir fry. Then add chicken soup and bean curd to boil. Add lettuce leaves and Jiang Mo to boil, season with salt and monosodium glutamate, and drizzle with sesame oil before taking out.

3. The second method of lettuce soup

Ingredients: 500g salted duck. Lettuce 300g, corn kernels100g.

Seasoning salad oil, onion and ginger slices, cooking wine, broth, salt, monosodium glutamate and pepper.

working methods

3. 1. Dice the salted duck and blanch it for later use.

3.2. Cut the lettuce into hob pieces and blanch the corn kernels.

3.3. Heat oil in the pot, stir-fry ginger slices with leeks, cook wine, add dried salted duck, add broth and stew for 30 minutes. When the soup is white, add lettuce and corn kernels, add salt, monosodium glutamate and pepper to taste, and stew for about 10 minutes.

Efficacy and function of lettuce

Lettuce tastes sweet, cool and bitter, and enters the stomach; Has the effects of benefiting five internal organs, dredging meridians, clearing stomach heat, and clearing away heat and promoting diuresis; It can be used for dysuria, hematuria, and mammary obstruction.

1, open the plum tree and eliminate stagnation.

Lettuce tastes fresh and slightly bitter, which can stimulate the secretion of digestive enzymes and increase appetite. Its emulsion can enhance the secretion of gastric juice, digestive gland and bile, thus promoting the functions of various digestive organs, which is especially beneficial to patients with weakened digestive function, decreased acidity of digestive tract and constipation.

2, diuresis and lactation

The potassium content of lettuce is much higher than that of sodium, which is beneficial to the balance of water and electrolyte in the body and promotes urination and milk secretion. It has a certain dietotherapy effect on patients with hypertension, edema and heart disease.

3, physical fitness, anti-cancer and anti-cancer

Lettuce contains a variety of vitamins and minerals, which can regulate the function of nervous system. Its organic matter is rich in iron that can be absorbed by human body, which is very beneficial to patients with iron deficiency anemia. The hot water extract of lettuce has a high inhibitory rate on some cancer cells, so it can be used to prevent cancer.

4, laxative

Lettuce contains a lot of plant cellulose, which can promote intestinal peristalsis, dredge digestive tract and help defecation, and can be used to treat various constipation.

Precautions for eating lettuce

Lettuce contains protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, zinc, iodine, fluorine, nicotinic acid, cellulose and other nutrients. The general population can eat it, but there are also places to pay attention to when eating.

1, people with eye diseases and gout, people with spleen and stomach deficiency and diarrhea, and children with ADHD are not suitable for eating.

2. Lettuce should not be eaten frequently or excessively. Excessive consumption of lettuce can lead to dizziness, drowsiness, night blindness or other eye diseases. If eating more lettuce leads to night blindness and eye diseases, as long as you don't eat lettuce, you will be fine in a few days.

3, women during menstrual cramps and people with cold dysmenorrhea, do not eat cold lettuce.

4. Healthy cooking methods. When cooking lettuce, try to avoid the way of high oil and high temperature for too long. Too long high temperature will destroy the nutrients in lettuce.

People who are allergic to lettuce should not eat it. Lettuce can also be an allergen. If you are allergic to lettuce, eating lettuce may cause allergic symptoms such as redness, frequent diarrhea, indigestion, headache, sore throat and asthma. Therefore, such people should also avoid eating lettuce.