Frillis is a salad known to most cooks. 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 Frillis variety has a completely different chemical composition and properties. Let's get to know him better?
Characteristic variety
Frillis is a lettuce belonging to early ripening crops. For food in this variety, like all salads, leaves are used. Outwardly, the leaves have uneven, "winding" edges, the color is rich, bright green.
Due to its pleasant taste and texture, lettuce is often used in cooking. In the process of growing, this variety does not require significant effort and complex care, it is unpretentious.
Benefits and harms
Frillis lettuce is an annual plant that has a lot of nutrients and trace elements. The benefits of this variety of lettuce are as follows:
- Normalization of the thyroid gland.
- Strengthening the cardiovascular system.
- Strengthening the nervous system and increasingstress tolerance.
- A large amount of carotenoids has a beneficial effect on visual function, and also improves the external condition 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. The benefits of lettuce for pregnant women are especially great, as folic acid protects the fetus from developmental defects.
- Frillis lettuce is a low-calorie food that promotes weight loss.
- Lettuce increases 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 lettuce Frillis. Surprisingly, it is absolutely 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.
Frillis lettuce: outdoor cultivation
Let's talk about ways to grow Frillies lettuce on your own. This is a fairly unpretentious crop, so it is possible to grow this variety in three ways - in open ground, at home and winter sowing.
You can start landing in mid-April and continue until the end of August. It is preferable to sow seeds in the ground, not seedlings, since transplanting significantly weakensplant. Landing pattern - 25 X 25 cm.
Lettuce does not require serious care, it is enough to loosen the soil from time to time and remove pest plants. It is also permissible to feed with herbal infusions and complex fertilizers. With abundant watering, the first harvest can be obtained after 4 weeks.
Growing on the windowsill
It's easy to please the household if Frilly's lettuce is always ready for harvest on the windowsill. Seeds for planting at home do not have to be dressed in advance, and planting can be done both in winter and autumn, as the variety is frost-resistant.
Because lettuce is a fast-growing crop, the soil must be fertilized 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 may adversely affect the root system.
It is important to provide plants with sufficient lighting, as this culture prefers a 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 lettuce was cared for according to the rules, then the first harvest will not be long in coming. In a month, there will always be delicious leaves on the windowsill.
Winter sowing
Since the lettuce tolerates cold well, the seeds can be left to winter. Then, after the last frost,in early spring, you will get your first lettuce harvest. To do this, at the end of October, it is necessary to sow seeds in pre-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. You need to sow the seeds more densely than with normal planting, as some of them will freeze during the winter.
Frillis salad recipes
Leaf lettuce is delicious on its own. It is enough to sprinkle it with lemon juice and present it as an appetizer to a meat or fish dish - the Frillis variety goes well with any of them. Lettuce does not need heat treatment, and it should not be cut with a knife, as it loses its beneficial properties. As a rule, lettuce is torn by hand.
Let's go directly to the recipe for a wonderful dish with Frillies salad. For its preparation you will need:
- 100 grams of peeled shrimp.
- 100 grams of pineapple pulp (canned).
- Apple - 1 piece.
- Frillis (salad) - 50 grams.
- Ginger root - 0.5 cm.
- 1-2 tablespoons of mayonnaise.
- S alt and spices to taste.
Shrimp must be boiled or fried in oil. Cut pineapple and apple into cubes. Rinse lettuce and let dry, then tear with your hands. The main ingredients are ready, now they can be mixed.
Let's get on with the sauce. Ginger root should be grated. Mix the grated root with mayonnaise, s alt and add spices. The sauce is ready! They can immediately fill all the ingredientssalad or serve separately in a gravy boat. Bon appetit!
