Fill
pieces of butter lettuce with chicken and top with chopped peanuts, cilantro, shredded carrots and green onion for lettuce cups.
If you can't find a nice fresh
head of butter lettuce, feel free to use another variety but choose one will hold up under the weight of the lush avocado dressing.
Fill pieces
of butter lettuce with chicken and top with chopped peanuts, cilantro, shredded carrots and green onion for lettuce cups.
A simple
salad of butter lettuce, cherry tomatoes from our garden, some toasted almonds - which warmed a dollop of goat cheese and I'm in heaven.Dessert is some almond milk ice cream and NUTELLA!
A whole baked salmon filet is placed on
top of butter lettuce alongside asparagus, potatoes, and soft boiled eggs, then dressed with a fresh lemon - dill vinaigrette.
To make things a tad less indulgent, I like eating these fritters with some tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, and pesto in a
blanket of butter lettuce.
salad 6
cups of butter lettuce, chopped 1 carrot, sliced or chopped 1 big handful of snap peas, cut in half 4 green onions, sliced 4 chives, sliced 4 slices of cooked bacon, crumbled 2 ounces gorgonzola cheese, crumbled
Great dressing... I used 2 heads
of butter lettuce instead of endive and spinach and used Gorgonzola as the cheese and sauteed the pecans in butter, brown sugar and salt.
6 cups fresh, washed salad greens or 4 good handfuls (I used an
assortment of butter lettuce, red leaf lettuce and romaine, friseé and baby spinach would also be lovely)
I switched my original
use of butter lettuce to spinach and beet greens for the purposes of this blog post, mostly as I love beet greens and I hate waste (the larger, more robust leaves from this bunch were eaten last night, sautéed in olive oil with shallots, garlic and a little bit of salt).
It may shock you to learn that one serving of arugula, two
servings of butter lettuce, and four servings of celery or beets all have more nitrite than 467 hot dogs.
I was inspired to develop this Beet Wild Rice Salad recipe by the gorgeous fresh spring beets and spectacular heads
of butter lettuce at the farmer's market recently.
Last night G and I stayed in and he cooked the most delicious lemon herb chicken with a
side of butter lettuce salad, grilled zucchini and herbed rice.
For individual salad plates, layer a few
leaves of butter lettuce with some of the butternut squash, a few strawberry slices, some feta cheese, pepitas and cilantro and sliced serranos if desired.
Then I placed them on a
bed of butter lettuce and made an easy garlicy butter dressing to cover all the salad with because as we all know by now, butter is the answer to everything.
When the mushrooms are done, quickly place the mushrooms on
top of the butter lettuce, and pour any remaining liquid on lop of the mushrooms.
1 head
of butter lettuce 1/2 cup of black beans 1 spring onion, white part only, sliced very thin (preferably with a mandolin) a couple handfuls of micro greens (I used arugula, but pea shoots or sprouts would work great as well) 1 avocado, sliced thin lengthwise
3 hard boiled eggs, grated on a box grater 2 - 3 heads
of butter lettuce or little gems, well washed and dried a few glugs of extra virgin olive oil 1 lemon
After you make the sauces and prepare the chicken, assemble the wraps by arranging some of sliced chicken into the center of a leaf
of butter lettuce, sprinkle on some shredded carrot, perhaps a few crunchy bean threads, add a little dipping sauce, and open wide.
1 large head
of butter lettuce, washed and leaves separated 1 cup fresh garden peas or frozen peas Ingredients for the pink peppercorn beurre blanc
1 quart French potato salad 1/2 cup oil and lemon dressing 1 head
of butter lettuce, trimmed, washed, and dried 2 - 3 tablespoons olive oil Salt and freshly ground pepper 1 1/2 pounds fresh green beans, blanched and chilled 3 ripe red tomatoes, quartered and seasoned 1/4 cup black olives 1 - 2 tablespoons capers, rinsed
Little Gem, a lettuce that both looks and tastes like a cross between baby romaine and a small head
of butter lettuce, can be found at farmers» markets.
Next time I'd get two heads
of butter lettuce; we burned through the first head quickly with lots of lamb and veggies left over.
Goes great with: Salad
of butter lettuce, radicchio, roasted pears, and toasted walnuts.
We had salad from a head
of butter lettuce I'd bought at the farmers» market, dressed with a simple vinaigrette and topped with shaved raw asparagus and parmesan.
Arrange 16 small crunchy inner leaves
of butter lettuce, romaine, or endive on a large platter.
Wrapping it in a big leaf
of butter lettuce — very healthy in spite of its name — makes it a filling, low - carb option.