Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Wild Food guide to Sea Lettuce along with all the Sea Lettuce containing recipes presented on this site, with 13 recipes in total.

This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Cornish recipes added to this site.

These recipes, all contain Sea Lettuce as a major wild food ingredient.

Sea Lettuce, (also known as Green Laver), Ulva lactuca Linnaeus, is an edible seaweed of the family Ulvaceae that is commonly found attached to rock pools around the British coast. Out of the water the seaweed looks like a rather slimy lime-green mass (above, left) but in the water the alga actually does look very much like young lettuce leaves.

Green Laver can be eaten raw or can be cooked in stews and soups. The fronds are good when shredded and added to salads. They can also be made into a fritter by chopping finely, boiling for half an hour, mixing with grated cheese and oatmeal before forming into patties and frying.

The fronds can also be added to soups and stews and they make a tasty risotto. Sea Lettuce dries well and re-constitutes on adding water. Dried and ground, it, is one of the components of traditional French seaweed seasoning.

For other edible seaweed (sea vegetables), see the guide to edible seaweed

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