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Washing and Drying Lettuce (Info)

 

Recipe By : Martha Rose Shulman, The Best Vegetarian Recipes

Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00

Categories : 2 Salads 0 Info and Techniques

 

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-- Washing and Drying Lettuce --

 

Lettuce, even the precut brands, is sandy, so it must be washed before

you make a salad. It's the main task in the salad making.

 

For Heads of Lettuce:

Fill the bottom part of a salad spinner, a large bowl, or half of a

double sink with cold water. While you are running the water, break the

leaves off the head and run each one under the water, turning them over

once and rubbing the base of the leaf between your thumb and

forefingers; the sand sticks in that curved bit at the base of the leaf.

Place the leaves in the bowl or sinkful of water. Swish them around with

your hands or, if your sink has a spray nozzle, run the spray into the

water full blast to swish the leaves around and knock sand off the

leaves. (This is one of the greatest uses for spray nozzles). Put the

top part of a salad spinner or colander over a bowl or over the other

half of your sink. Lift the leaves out of the water with your hands and

transfer to the colander or top of the spinner. Don't dump it out or the

sand will go with it. Drain the sandy water out of the sink or bowl in

which you swished around the salad leaves, and rinse away all the sand.

Fill again with water, and submerge the lettuce again. Swish it around

once more, lift from the water, and transfer again to the top of your

spinner or to a colander set over a bowl or sink so water won't run all

over your counter or floor. Spin dry, or if you don't have a spinner,

put a clean, dry dish towel on your counter. After you've washed the

lettuce, shake each leaf over the sink, and lay the lettuce on top of

the towel in one layer. Place another towel on top and gently press

down, or roll the bottom towel up so that you have a roll of lettuce

between the two towels.

 

Precut Lettuce

These will be much less sandy, but the greens still need a swish. Fill

your sink or bowl with cold water as above. You don't have to rinse the

leaves under running water. Put in the lettuces and swish around, with

your hands or with the spray nozzle. Lift from the water and drain. You

don't have to repeat the rinsing process with most precut lettuce.

 

Source: Martha Rose Shulman, The Best Vegetarian Recipes, 2001

Typed and MC Formatted by Eruna Schultheiss

 

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