Lettuce Salad
Topic: Salad

Sometimes vegetables when prepared in a very simple way are the best. Like salads. My father always mentioned to us before that he really missed the salads in Riyadh, KSA while he was studying there particularly the Lettuce salad. We always tried to buy lettuce there in the Philippines and made it into a salad but my father said that it didn't taste the same. Now, I knew that there must have to be a big difference because the lettuce he mean was the Romaine variety which is very common here in the arab states and the lettuce we used to buy in the Phillipines before was iceberg variety. Now here's the simple way of making lettuce romaine salad.


Ingredients:
1 small bunch of young lettuce
1/2 cup pickled cucumber, sliced
1 large tomato, sliced
juice of 1 lemon
1 tbsp. olive oil
pinch of salt
10 pcs. Croutons or more if you like

Directions:
1. Rinse each lettuce leaf under cold water and shake excess water off the leaves.
2. Cut the leaves into whatever size you think will fit into your mouth.
3. Combine the lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes in a salad bowl. Toss with the dressing until all the vegetables are coated well with the dressing.
4. Sprinkle with a pinch of salt.
5. Top with croutons.

Serve immediately. Lettuce tends to get soggy about an hour after mixed with the dressing.