Killer Salad Recipes

Yesterday, during my weekly shop, I came across something new and of course I bought it to use in a salad recipe or three Salatrio is a root ball lettuce, which simply means, when bought the lettuce is still attached to its root ball. This, say the producers, means the lettuce will remain fresh for longer, because you only need to cut the leaves you want to use, the rest stay attached to the root ball in the fridge.

The salatrio (the clue is in the name) provides 3 different types of lettuce from one root ball, which I think is quite cool. Now this isn’t a lettuce produced from a magic bean, it is simply three different lettuce varieties grown together in one plug, still the concept is kinda cool because it means you can have a fresh lettuce mix without having to buy three separate lettuce heads. Some thought has also gone into the choice of lettuce used, because what salatrio offers is a colourful mix of red and green leaves, which is great for any wanna be chef out there who wants to impress friends and family with a colourful salad.

From the producers website…

Salatrio is the name for a concept of three different, young, fresh lettuce types in one bag. The advantage is that the user doesn’t need to buy three different heads of lettuce of pre-cut letttuce mixes to make a colourful and tasty salad.

Salatrio won the Innovation of the year award 2008, at the Fresh Awards, during a gala dinner at the Marriott Hotel in London, England.

The producers, Deliscious, say that the salatrio is best kept inside its plastic wrap with the root ball intact. I think this is a good idea, obviously because a root ball means soil, which although is compacted, as you can see from the picture below, can still be quite messy especially in a fridge.

So, I’m going to use my trio of lettuce leaves today, but not all, I do want to see if the salatrio does indeed last longer than a regular head of lettuce.

The salatrio did cost more than a regular head of lettuce, the one I bought cost £1.20 from my local supermarket, but it did cost less that buying 3 separate lettuce, so depending on taste and longevity it may be something I buy regularly.