The original salad of lettuce leaves and eggs has an incomparable taste, and is suitable for a daily and festive table. Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step preparation of salad from lettuce leaves and eggs
- Video recipe
Egg and lettuce salad is a nutritious and delicious quick dish. It prepares very quickly and all the ingredients used are available. At the same time, the taste of the food comes out amazing. The dish is especially important to prepare in spring or summer, when a huge abundance of all kinds of fresh herbs and vegetables is sold on store shelves. The salad perfectly combines healthy and vitamin-rich lettuce leaves, as well as chicken eggs, which contain the protein necessary for the body. The dish will give true pleasure and give strength to every eater.
In addition to lettuce leaves, the dish can be supplemented with vegetables to your taste. Cucumbers, green onions, tomatoes, herbs, peppers, cabbage, etc. are perfect. Eggs go well with many foods, so you can add anything you want to a salad. Eggs are highly nutritious and affordable food. For a salad, they can not only be boiled, but also fried or steamed. In addition, despite the fact that today the most popular chicken eggs, they can be replaced with quail eggs. They are much healthier and, in comparison with chicken, contain 5 times more potassium and 2.5 times more vitamins B1 and B2. In addition, using quail eggs, there is no risk of contracting salmonellosis. The recipe uses vegetable oil for dressing. But it can be replaced with olive oil, mayonnaise, sour cream, or an interesting compound dressing can be prepared.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 85 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 15 minutes for slicing, plus time for boiling and cooling eggs
Ingredients:
- Lettuce leaves - 6-7 pcs.
- Vegetable oil - for dressing
- Dill - small bunch
- Salt - 0.5 tsp or to taste
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Green onions - 5-6 feathers
- Cilantro - 7 branches
Step-by-step preparation of salad from lettuce leaves and eggs, recipe with photo:
1. Wash lettuce leaves under running water and dry well with a paper or cotton napkin. Cut them into thin strips or tear them by hand.
2. Wash green onion feathers, dry and chop finely.
3. Wash dill and cilantro greens, dry and chop.
4. Wash the eggs, put them in a cooking pot with room temperature water and add salt to prevent the eggs from cracking. After boiling, cook them hard-boiled for 8-9 minutes. Then transfer to ice water to cool. Then peel them and cut them into cubes.
5. Put all the food in a deep container, season them with salt, pour over with vegetable oil and mix well. Serve salad of lettuce leaves and eggs immediately after preparation. If you do not plan to serve it right away, then season with salt before you put the salad to the table. Otherwise, the vegetables will let the juice out, and the salad will not have an appetizing appearance.
See also the video recipe on how to make a spring salad from lettuce leaves.
