Frillis - salad for health and beauty

Frillis is a salad known to most culinary specialists. This is a very common variety, which is often confused with the Iceberg salad. Indeed, outwardly they are very similar, but taste very different. In addition, the Frillis variety has a completely different chemical composition and properties. Will we get to know him better?

Characteristic of the variety

Frillis is a salad belonging to early ripening cultures. In the food of this class, as with all salads, leaves are used. Externally, the leaves have uneven, "sinuous" edges, saturated color, bright green.

Due to pleasant taste and consistency, salad is often used in cooking. In the process of growing this variety does not require significant effort and complex care, it differs unpretentiousness.

Benefit and harm

Leaf salad Frillis is an annual plant that has a mass of useful substances and microelements. The benefits of this kind of salad is as follows:

• Normalization of the thyroid gland.
• Strengthening of the cardiovascular system.
• Strengthening the nervous system and increasing stress resistance.
• A large number of carotenoids have a beneficial effect on the visual function, as well as improves the external state of nails, skin, hair.
• Stimulates the processes of regeneration of body tissues.
• Promotes active production of red blood cells.
• Contains folic acid, which is necessary for a person at any age. Especially great is the use of salad for pregnant women, since folic acid protects the fetus from developmental defects.
• Salad Frillis - low-calorie product, its use contributes to weight loss.
• Salad improves the body's immune function, improves overall health, and has a beneficial effect on appearance.

This is not the entire list of useful properties of the Frillis leaf salad. What is surprising, it is absolutely devoid of harmful properties and contraindications. The only thing that can ruin the natural composition of lettuce leaves is the presence of a large amount of harmful nitrates in the soil where it grew.

Salad Frillis: growing outdoors

Let's talk about the ways of self-cultivation of Frillis leaf salad. This is a fairly unpretentious crop, therefore, it is possible to grow this variety in three ways - in open ground, at home and under sowing.

You can begin the landing in mid-April and continue until the end of August. It is preferable to sow seeds in the ground, and not seedlings, as the transplant considerably weakens the plant. The landing scheme is 25 X 25 cm.

Salad does not require serious care, it is enough to loosen the soil from time to time and remove pests. It is also permissible to feed herbal infusions and complex fertilizers. With abundant watering, the first crop can be obtained after 4 weeks.

Grow on the windowsill

To please the household is easy, if the Frillis salad is always ready for harvesting on the windowsill. Seeds for planting at home do not necessarily pre-etch, and planting can be done in winter and autumn, since the variety is resistant to frost.

Since the lettuce is a fast-growing crop, it is necessary to fertilize the soil to ensure the active growth of strong plants. To do this, use a solution of mullein or chemical compounds - complex fertilizers. The first shoots require thinning. Loosening is not recommended in the first three weeks of plant growth, as this can negatively affect the root system.

It is important to provide the plants with sufficient illumination, since this culture prefers a 13-hour light day - its vegetative and reproductive functions depend on this. Also, young shoots in the first couple of weeks need regular watering.

If care of the salad was carried out according to the rules, the first harvest will not keep you waiting. Within a month, there will always be delicious leaves on the windowsill.

Spring sowing

Since the salad perfectly tolerates the cold, the seeds can be left to winter. Then, after the last frost, early in the spring, you will get the first harvest of lettuce. To do this, at the end of October, it is necessary to sow the seeds in the prepared soil.

The soil is digested with mineral fertilizers, then rows are made at a distance of 30 cm from each other. Sowing seeds should be denser than with a normal planting, since during the winter some of them will freeze.

Frillis salad: recipes

Leaf lettuce is delicious in itself. It is enough to sprinkle with lemon juice and present as a snack to a meat or fish dish - with any of them, the Frillis variety is perfectly combined. Salad does not need heat treatment, nor should it be cut with a knife, as it loses its useful properties. As a rule, lettuce is torn.

Let's go directly to the recipe for a wonderful dish with Frillis salad. To prepare it you will need:

• 100 grams of peeled shrimp.
• 100 grams of pineapple flesh (can be in canned food).
• Apple - 1 piece.
• Frillis (salad) - 50 grams.
• The root of ginger is 0.5 cm.
• 1-2 tablespoons of mayonnaise.
• Salt and spices to taste.

Shrimp must be boiled or fried in oil. Pineapples and apple cut into cubes. Salad rinse and let dry, after ripping your hands. The main ingredients are ready, now they can be mixed.

Let's make sauce. The ginger root should be grated. Mix the grated root with mayonnaise, season with salt and add spices. The sauce is ready! They can immediately fill up all the ingredients of the salad or serve separately in the sauce bowl. Bon Appetit!