Phillies is a salad known to most culinary specialists. This is a very common variety that is often confused with Iceberg lettuce. Indeed, they are very similar in appearance, but they are completely different in taste. In addition, the variety Frillis has a completely different chemical composition and properties. Get to know him better?
Grade characteristics
Phillies is a salad belonging to precocious crops. In this variety, like all salads, leaves are used. Outwardly, the leaves have uneven, “winding” edges, the color is saturated, bright green.
Due to its pleasant taste and texture, the salad is often used in cooking. In the process of growing this variety does not require significant effort and complicated care, is unpretentious.
Benefit and harm
Leaf lettuce Phryllis is an annual plant that has a mass of nutrients and trace elements. The benefits of this kind of salad are as follows:
- Normalization of the thyroid gland.
- Strengthening the cardiovascular system.
- Strengthening the nervous system and increasing stress resistance.
- A large number of carotenoids has a beneficial effect on visual function, and also improves the external condition of nails, skin, and hair.
- Stimulates the processes of tissue regeneration.
- Promotes the active production of red blood cells.
- It contains folic acid, which is necessary for a person at any age. The salad is especially useful for pregnant women, since folic acid protects the fetus from developmental defects.
- Friesis salad is a low-calorie product, its use contributes to weight loss.
- Salad enhances the body's immune functions, improves overall well-being, and has a beneficial effect on appearance.
This is not the whole list of useful properties of leaf lettuce. Surprisingly, it is completely devoid of harmful properties and contraindications. The only thing that can spoil the natural composition of lettuce leaves is the presence of a large amount of harmful nitrates in the soil where it grew.
Friesis Salad: Outdoor Growing
Let's talk about the methods of self-growing leaf lettuce Fries. This is a fairly unpretentious culture, therefore, this variety can be grown in three ways - in the open ground, at home and with winter sowing.
You can start the landing in mid-April and continue until the end of August. It is preferable to sow seeds in the soil, rather than seedlings, since the transplant significantly weakens the plant. Landing pattern - 25 X 25 cm.
The salad does not require serious care, it is enough from time to time to loosen the soil 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.
We grow on the windowsill
It is easy to please household members if on the windowsill the salad is always ready for harvesting. Seeds for planting at home do not have to be pickled in advance, and planting can be done both in winter and autumn, since the variety is resistant to frost.
Since lettuce belongs to fast-growing crops, the soil must be fertilized to ensure the active growth of strong plants. To do this, use a mullein solution 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 adversely affect the root system.
It is important to provide the plants with adequate lighting, since this culture prefers 13-hour daylight hours - its vegetative and reproductive functions depend on it. Also, young shoots in the first couple of weeks need regular watering.
If salad care was carried out according to the rules, then the first harvest will not be long in coming. Within a month, delicious leaflets will always be on the windowsill.
Winter sowing
Since the salad tolerates the cold, the seeds can be left to winter. Then, after the last frost, in the early spring, you will receive the first salad crop. To do this, at the end of October, it is necessary to sow the seeds in previously prepared soil.
The soil is dug up with mineral fertilizers, then rows are made in it at a distance of 30 cm from each other. Sowing seeds needs to be denser than during normal planting, since some of them will freeze over the winter.
Phillies salad: recipes
Leaf lettuce is delicious on its own. It is enough to sprinkle it with lemon juice and present it as a snack to a meat or fish dish - with any of them, the Friesis variety is wonderful. The salad does not need heat treatment, nor should it be cut with a knife, as it loses its beneficial properties. As a rule, salad is torn by hands.
We proceed directly to the recipe for a wonderful dish with the Friesis salad. To prepare it you will need:
- 100 grams of peeled shrimp.
- 100 grams of pineapple pulp (canned).
- Apple - 1 piece.
- Phyllis (salad) - 50 grams.
- Ginger root - 0.5 cm.
- 1-2 tablespoons of mayonnaise.
- Salt and spices to taste.
Shrimps must be boiled or fried in oil. Pineapples and apple cut into cubes. Rinse the salad and let it dry, after breaking it with your hands. The main ingredients are ready, now they can be mixed.
Let's do the sauce. Ginger root should be grated. Mix the grated root with mayonnaise, salt and add spices. The sauce is ready! They can be immediately filled with all the ingredients of the salad or served separately in a saucepan. Bon Appetit!