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    Perfect Butter Lettuce Salad (Fresh & Healthy)

    Published: Apr 23, 2021 by Marinela

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    Perfect butter lettuce salad recipe for lunch, dinner, and spring cookouts! Fresh and healthy side dish loaded with plant-based nutrients.

    Healthy mix of butter lettuce, radishes, cucumber and green onions as side dish for lunch or dinner

    This time of the year, as local markets start filling up with fresh early-spring vegetables, it's finally time for green leafy veggies to take their place on the table. This gorgeous, rich, and crispy butter lettuce salad just goes with any meal. I love pairing it with this creamy lentil soup or this cozy green peas soup. Who doesn't need a light, quick and enjoyable plate full of vitamins and minerals?

    What is Butter Lettuce

    Butter lettuce green salad recipe for clean eating plant-based diet.

    Butter Lettuce or sometimes called by its full name, butterhead lettuce, is a type of lettuce that includes Bibb lettuce and Boston lettuce. It has a bright green or deep reddish-purple color and soft, round loosely-coiled leaves. In fact, this Mediterranean-tender leafy lettuce has a fairly mild, slightly sweet flavor that melts in your mouth like butter. An ideal plant-based ingredient for your clean eating salad recipes!

    Fresh Ingredients for this Butter Lettuce Salad Recipe

    Fresh plant-based ingredients for quick and easy dish
    • Medium-sized Head of Butter Lettuce
    • 3 Radishes
    • 1 Cucumber
    • 3 Spring Onions
    • Lemon Vinaigrette (extra virgin olive oil, freshly squeezed lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, and salt)
    Weight-loss side dish salad idea with fresh vegetables with lemon vinaigrette dressing

    Time needed: 10 minutes.

    How to make a mixed salad using butter lettuce, radishes, spring onions, and cucumber?

    This simple and delicious, nutrient-dense butter salad recipe can easily be doubled or tripled to accommodate for more people. Truly, this fresh green side dish is a fabulous accompaniment to just about any weeknight meal.

    1. Rinse and chop all veggies

      First, rinse well all vegetables. Next, in a medium-sized bowl mix bite-sized chopped butter lettuce and thinly sliced radishes, spring onions, and cucumber.

    2. Drizzle with lemon vinaigrette

      Drizzle with lemon vinaigrette: extra virgin olive oil, freshly squeezed lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, and salt to taste. Toss gently until salad is evenly coated. Serve it as a side dish with your lunch or dinner or simply enjoy it as a light meal on its own!

    Light salad with butter lettuce and other green veggies. Low calorie recipe idea.
    What is butter lettuce good for?

    Due to its rich nutrient content, this buttery lettuce provides you with lots of carotenoid antioxidants such as beta carotene, zeaxanthin, and lutein. For this reason, it protects your eyes from macular degeneration. Moreover, butterhead lettuce contains a very high amount of iron. It's important to realize that this nutrient is crucial for creating red blood cells in your body. It's particularly high in folate and Vitamin A and K. In addition, butter lettuce is a low-fat, low-calorie, low-sodium salad choice that literally goes with any main course.

    How many calories are there in this lettuce salad?

    Combine a portion of this healthy salad with your everyday meals. You'll be surprised to see what an incredible difference it can make in your body transformation. To emphasize, this low-calorie crunchy mixed salad with radishes and cucumber contains only 294 calories. So, if losing weight is your goal, you should start your meals with green salad ingredients.

    This butter lettuce salad recipe is:

    Fresh green leafy chopped salad with lemon vinaigrette
    • Light
    • Simple
    • Quick and easy to make
    • Healthy
    • Low in calories
    • So refreshing!
    Butter lettuce salad recipe with vinaigrette and radishes, cucumber, spring onions

    Perfect Butter Lettuce Salad Recipe (Fresh & Healthy)

    Marinela
    Perfect butter lettuce salad recipe for lunch, dinner, and spring cookouts! Fresh and healthy side dish loaded with plant-based nutrients.
    5 from 11 votes
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    Prep Time 10 mins
    Total Time 10 mins
    Course Side Dish, Snack
    Cuisine Mediterranean
    Servings 2 servings
    Calories 147 kcal

    Equipment

    • Salad Bowl

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 medium-sized head butter lettuce bite-size chopped
    • 3 radishes thinly sliced
    • 1 cucumber thinly sliced
    • 3 stalks green onions finely chopped

    Dressing

    • 2 tablespoon olive oil extra virgin
    • 1 tablespoon lemon juice freshly squeezed
    • 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
    • salt to taste

    Instructions
     

    • First, rinse well all vegetables. Next, in a medium-sized bowl mix bite-sized chopped butter lettuce and thinly sliced radishes, spring onions, and cucumber
    • Drizzle with lemon vinaigrette: extra virgin olive oil, freshly squeezed lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, and salt to taste. Toss gently until salad is evenly coated. Serve it as a side dish with your lunch or dinner or simply enjoy it as a light meal on its own!

    Nutrition

    Calories: 147kcal
    Keyword butter lettuce, easy, fresh, greens, healthy, light, low-calorie, plant based diet, recipes, salad, side dish, simple
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    Love, Marinela💚

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    1. Jacqui

      December 19, 2021 at 8:54 pm

      5 stars
      Such a great, yet so simple salad! I really enjoyed this one

      Reply
      • Marinela

        December 20, 2021 at 8:22 pm

        I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Jacqui! Thank you for commenting.

        Reply
    2. nancy

      December 20, 2021 at 2:37 am

      5 stars
      so simply but really tasty and refreshing

      Reply
      • Marinela

        December 20, 2021 at 8:18 pm

        I'm glad you like this simple salad, Nancy! Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

        Reply

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