Salad leaves with sweetened sour cream

I’m starting to act like a proper food blogger: I cook at the weekend so there’s enough to last all week. Just like any perfect homemaker, really. Or so you’d think. Except that what bloggers need to last all week is posts 🙂 Blog posts, of course.

This time it’s a pretty simple recipe. An ode to simple cooking, courtesy of Nina, my darling daughter Nina, whose passion for food, especially savoury food (read: anything that isn’t sweet), is about on a par with my passion for the days of the Polish People’s Republic. Ah, those were the days. A pity about the monotony on the plate. Breaded pork chops every day 😉 Only joking 🙂

No, things weren’t so bad in the People’s Republic. It’s just that back then the cooks (read: mums, grandmas, dads) could be bothered to put the effort in.

Anyway, apart from her usual repertoire of dinners and the handful of side dishes she’ll eat, Ninka also likes fresh green lettuce. Usually she likes it plain. But since she won’t turn down mizeria, our creamy cucumber salad, lettuce with a sweet dressing sometimes gets the nod too. Hence this incredibly simple recipe. I thought you might occasionally run up against the question “How many teaspoons of sugar do I add?” And since that’s a matter of the utmost importance, read on. I recommend it 🙂

At a glance: 

Prep time: 5 minutes

Serves: depends how much lettuce you use. The amount here is enough for two.

Calories: it may not be cabbage, but the calories are empty all the same

Ingredients for a dinner side, mizeria-style, only without the cucumbers:

• 2 handfuls of mixed salad leaves
• 1/3 of a glass of sour cream, 18% fat (I prefer Zott)
• 3 teaspoons sugar 

How to make a reasonably healthy side dish:

I washed the lettuce and dried it with kitchen paper (you could also use one of those gadgets for washing and spinning lettuce dry. I have one, but it’s more trouble than just washing the leaves and drying them with a towel). In a glass I mixed the sugar thoroughly with the sour cream.

I cut the leaves into narrow strips and put them in a small metal bowl. I added the now-sweetened sour cream and mixed everything thoroughly. I left it for 5 minutes to let the flavours mingle.

All done. Enjoy!