Gem lettuce
Used in 2 recipes on RecipeWiki.
Baby gem lettuce, which this page covers, is a small, compact cos-type lettuce with crisp, cupped leaves and a sweet, juicy heart. Its leaves have more crunch and less bitterness than most salad leaves, and they stand up to creamy dressings that would flatten softer lettuce. The cupped inner leaves make natural little boats for Shrimp Cocktail, and torn leaves give the Waldorf Salad a fresh, watery crunch against apple and walnut. Wash the leaves and then dry them thoroughly, in a salad spinner or a clean tea towel; dressing slides off wet lettuce and pools in the bowl. Whole heads keep for several days in the fridge.
Most often cooked with
Lemon
MayonnaiseRecipes with gem lettuce
Shrimp Cocktail
Cold poached prawns hung over the rim of a chilled coupe with a horseradish-sharp tomato sauce, and nothing else on the plate.
15 minutes
American
No-cook
Waldorf Salad
Apple, celery and walnuts in a lemon-slackened mayonnaise, kept crisp and served cold on a leaf of lettuce.
