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Using salad leaves

Find recipes that make excellent use of salad leaves when they are in their prime and then when they start to go a bit limp. Use lettuces in stir-fries as though they were Chinese cabbages for extra crunch.
Green pancakes
by Justine Pattison

Add some colour to your breakfast pancakes – using a low heat to fry these pancakes ensures that the green colour is preserved.

Each pancake provides 124 kcal, 4.5g protein, 17g carbohydrates (of which 1g sugars), 4g fat (of which 1g saturates), 1g fibre and 0.6g salt.

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