Oyster sauce lettuce is a very fresh and crispy Cantonese cuisine, the practice is also super simple, but often the more simple the dish, the more difficult to do well, either to do out of the lettuce color is not good, or the texture is not crunchy and tender, and there are no hotels so delicious and tasty, in fact, these problems are related to the ingredients and practices, you just need to understand the subtleties of it, then you can also make a fresh and tasty and good taste. The flavor of the oyster sauce lettuce.
Oyster sauce lettuce practice:1, first of all, we buy lettuce must be tender, too old lettuce to do out of the texture is naturally worse. First lettuce root cut off 1 small section, so it is easy to lettuce a piece of a piece of separation, and then wash a few times with water, the lettuce thoroughly clean, if you do not like too large can be torn into a small piece of hand or pulled into 2 sections can be.
2, add water to the pot, boil over high heat, add 6 grams of salt, 3 grams of sugar to the bottom flavor, if there is baking soda at home, you can also add 2 grams of baking soda, baking soda can prevent the lettuce oxidation black. Also add 20 grams of salad oil, add oil can make the lettuce to keep the bright green does not change color, but also can enhance the brightness of the lettuce, so that the color is more beautiful.
3, the pot of water boiling down into the clean lettuce blanching, more turning a few lettuce heat evenly, the pot of water will soon boil again, as long as you see the pot of water on the count of 10 seconds, and then put the lettuce with a slotted spoon out of the water. You can use a hand spoon to gently squeeze the lettuce to dry out the water a little.
4, bear in mind that lettuce blanching time should not be too long, otherwise the lettuce is easy to blacken and discoloration, the taste will not be crisp. Lettuce control water after lettuce arranged in the plate, arranged in the appearance of no regulations, with their own preferences, as long as they like it.
5, re-start the pot on high heat, pot hot, add 100 grams of water, 30 grams of oyster sauce, 2 grams of salt, 3 grams of sugar, 15 grams of soy sauce, but also add a few drops of old pumping color, and then all the ingredients of the sauce stirred evenly, and so on, after the ingredients of the sauce boiled we have to thicken the sauce, the oyster sauce hooked to the thicker.
6, first change the small fire, and then slowly dripping into the water starch (starch 7 grams of water and 90 grams of water stirred evenly into the water starch) while using a hand spoon to keep stirring, so that the oyster sauce will be slowly thickened, water starch and then dripping into the 20 grams of peanut oil after the end of stirring, so that the oyster sauce on the simmering well.
7, and finally the oyster sauce on the lettuce on the finished, a delicious flavor, taste and texture of the oyster sauce lettuce is done. Do this dish oyster sauce can not be too little, to ensure that each piece of lettuce can be dipped into the oyster sauce so eat up enough flavor. This is pure oyster sauce flavor oyster sauce lettuce, so as to highlight the fresh flavor of oyster sauce.
8, there is a practice is to add minced garlic, minced garlic oyster sauce lettuce will be covered by garlic flavor oyster sauce flavor, practice is also very simple, is to do the 5th step when the first add a small amount of oil, and then half of the minced garlic into the oil to the minced garlic to stimulate the flavor of the oil, and so the pot of minced garlic is almost turned into a golden brown when the 5th to start to do the rest of the half of the minced garlic in the oil before the next, so that there is a level of the minced garlic, and so that there is a level of the minced garlic, and so on. This way the garlic flavor is layered.
For oyster sauce lettuce to be tender and flavorful, the lettuce you buy must be tender. Lettuce blanching time should be short, if too long time will not only taste bad, the color will not look good. Finally, to taste good, then we choose the oyster sauce must be good, the kind of oyster sauce under 10 yuan is certainly not do a good taste, choose the oyster sauce when we first look at the ingredients list, above the oyster sauce, and in the first place that is certainly not bad.