Oyster Sauce Lettuce
A classic Cantonese dish featuring blanched lettuce drizzled with a rich glaze of oyster sauce, minced garlic, and aromatics.
Ingredients
lettuce (remove bad leaves, wash thoroughly, blanch and squeeze out excess water)
600 g
oyster sauce
30 g
cooking oil
60 g
soy sauce
10 g
sugar
10 g
cooking wine
20 g
ground white pepper
1 g
salt
1 g
cornstarch slurry
10 g
MSG
3 g
sesame oil
5 g
broth
to taste
minced garlic
3 g
Instructions
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Step 1
Remove any wilted leaves from the lettuce and wash well. Bring a pot of water to a boil, add salt, sugar, and a little oil, then blanch the lettuce, turn it once, remove and squeeze out the excess water, and arrange on a plate.
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Step 2
Heat oil in a pan, stir-fry the minced garlic briefly, then add oyster sauce, cooking wine, ground white pepper, sugar, MSG, soy sauce, and broth. Once it comes to a boil, thicken with the cornstarch slurry, drizzle in the sesame oil, and pour the sauce over the plated lettuce to serve.
