In the pantry · 18 uses
lettuce
Structure and water, and it is worth being fussy about. Dry it properly or dressing slides off and pools, which is the single most common salad failure.
15
dishes and drinks that need it
3
more where it is worth adding
100%
of those are under 30 min
What it is usually standing next to
Bacon turns up alongside it in about 33% of them, which is a strong lean rather than a rule.
Counted off required ingredients across the whole corpus. A companion listed here is one these dishes are built from, not one we are recommending.
If you have twenty minutes
Built on it · 15
Take it out and the dish is something else. Fastest first.
Worth adding · 3
These work without it. They work better with it.