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Spring is the season to eat lettuce! Lettuce, with its unique fragrance, fresh and tender taste and rich nutritional value, is deeply loved by the majority of diners. In the process of cooking, many people are accustomed to blanching it first or stir-frying it directly, although it is easy and fast, it often does not fully retain the crispness and deliciousness of lettuce.
Today, aside from the traditional methods, I will teach you a novel way to fry lettuce, so that you can easily cook a crisp, refreshing, delicious and delicious lettuce dish at home.
【Preparing ingredients】
1 fresh lettuce, 3 cloves of garlic, half a red pepper, appropriate amount of salt, appropriate amount of light soy sauce, a little sugar, and an appropriate amount of cooking oil.
【Detailed Instructions】
1. Ingredients to be distributed
Choose a tender, green lettuce, peel off the skin and cut it diagonally into thin slices with a knife. When slicing, care is taken to keep the thickness even, so that the subsequent cooking can be cooked at the same time and maintain a consistent taste. Chop the garlic into minced garlic, wash the red pepper and remove the seeds, and cut it into thin slices for later use.
2. 莴笋腌制
Put the sliced lettuce into a large bowl, add a small amount of salt (about 1 teaspoon), and gently grasp it with your hands so that the lettuce slices are evenly coated with salt grains. Let stand for 10 minutes. Using the infiltration of salt, the lettuce can precipitate part of the water before it is exposed to high temperatures, which not only maintains its crisp taste, but also can be pre-seasoned.
3. Squeeze dehydration
When the marinating time is up, gently squeeze the lettuce slices with your hands to squeeze out as much water as possible. This step is crucial to avoid excessive water coming out of the lettuce during the stir-frying process, which can affect the color and texture of the dish.
4. Heat the oil in a pan and stir-fry the minced garlic until fragrant
Heat the pan with cold oil, and when the oil temperature is 50% hot, add the minced garlic and stir-fry until fragrant. The aroma of minced garlic not only enhances the flavor of the whole dish, but also adds an enticing base to the lettuce.
5. Stir-fry the lettuce quickly
At this point, pour the drained lettuce slices and red pepper slices into the pan and stir-fry quickly over high heat. Because the lettuce is marinated and dehydrated in advance, it only takes 1-2 minutes to fry until it breaks off, keeping it green in color and crisp on the palate.
6. Season out of the pan
After stir-frying until the lettuce is raw, quickly add a little light soy sauce to extract freshness, sprinkle with a little sugar, neutralize the slight bitterness of the lettuce, stir-fry evenly so that the seasoning is fully integrated into the lettuce. Finally, add a little salt according to personal taste to adjust the saltiness, stir-fry evenly and then put it on a plate.
【Cooking Tips】
1. The thinner the lettuce slices, the more evenly they are heated and the better the taste when cooking. Try to keep the thickness consistent after slicing to avoid uneven raw and cooked raw and cooked when stir-frying.
2. When marinating lettuce, the amount of salt should not be too much to avoid being too salty. After squeezing out the excess water, add salt as needed when stir-frying.
3. During the frying process, it is necessary to fry the lettuce quickly on high heat, which can not only lock in the nutrition of the lettuce, but also maintain its crisp taste, so as to avoid frying too soft and losing its refreshing characteristics.
With the above innovative cooking methods, you can easily stir-fry a crisp and refreshing lettuce dish at home without blanching or directly putting it into the pot, just a few simple steps.
This dish not only retains the original fragrance and deliciousness of lettuce, but also eats it with rice, which is an artifact for rice, which makes people have a great appetite. Let the lettuce on the table glow with a different charm from now on!