Asian Cooking

Yesterday the weather was just perfect, the air was fresh and cool so I walked to town taking alongside some pictures. Today clearly it's just been raining and of course it's mail distribution day today... I've been soaking wet, but made some asian lunch and Yogi tea and changed in to dry socks. This recipe was from Yukiko Duke's book Viisi aasialaista keittiötä, though a little variated.

Zha Caixin (Woked Choi Sum) with rice noodles

So this recipe is really meant to be cooked of Choi sum-cabbage, but I used just ordinary iceberg lettuce and it was fine. It says in the book, that this fits for all green leaf veggies. I added the noodles to this so it made a whole meal. Otherwise this could be used as a condiment.

Ingredients:

500 g of iceberg lettuce

3 garlic cloves

1 tbsp of oil

1 tsp of sugar

1 tsp of salt

2 tbsp of soy sauce (it says in the recipe to use oyster sauce, but we had none)

250 g of rice noodles

water

Peel and crush the garlic. Heat the wok pan and pour the oil in it. Add the garlic and fry for a minute. Add the lettuce with spices and fry for 4 minutes.

At the meantime, heat the water so it's boiling, and add the noodles in it. Take off from the stove and let it sit for 3 minutes. Strain the water and flush with cold water. Add to the wok pan in the last minutes.