Preparing Romaine Lettuce for Mediterranean Salad

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village I'm Laura Banford. I'm going to show you how to make Greek shrimp with Mediterranean salad. The base of our Mediterranean salad is roman lettuce a nice big healthy head of roman lettuce. This is used in anything Italian, Greek anything for the Mediterranean area. We'll take our roman and put it on our cutting board I'm going to cut the core off cause we're definitely not going to need that, then I'm going to open up these. I want to get rid some of the tougher stalks you can add them but I really don't like to get a salad that it's all stalk. Roman stalks because they are kind of tough and you end up eating round them so we're going to expose of them and take them out. Here is a couple of more little stalks so we're going to get rid of them, then what we're going to do is we are going to line up our roman leaves like that. I just nest them all together and I'm going to kind of roll them up and then you are going to slice strips. That way you get a little tiny bit of stalk and lots of juicy fresh delicious roman leaves. When we come back we are going to prep our cucumbers."