Lettuce packages
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Head lettuce | |
| ¼ | pounds | Bamboo shoots |
| 12 | Water chestnuts | |
| ½ | pounds | Green beans |
| ¾ | cup | Roasted peanuts |
| 4 | tablespoons | Peanut oil |
| 1 | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1 | tablespoon | Minced garlic |
| 1 | pounds | Coarsely ground pork |
| 1 | tablespoon | Dry sherry |
| ¼ | cup | Water |
| 2 | tablespoons | Oyster sauce |
| 1 | teaspoon | Sugar |
| 1 | teaspoon | Sesame oil (Chinese kind) |
| ¼ | cup | Hoisin sauce |
Directions
Preparation:
Remove from the head of lettuce a dozen or more of the largest and crispest leaves. Set them aside in a serving bowl. Dice the bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, and green beans into ¼ inch cubes. Mince the peanuts and set aside with the bamboo shoots and water chestnuts.
Cooking:
Heat a wok or skillet over high heat until a drop of water immediately sizzles into steam. Maintain high heat throughout the cooking process. Add 2 tablespoons of the peanut oil, ½ teaspoon of the salt, and the garlic.
Stir for about 30 seconds or until the odor of the garlic has become pungent. Add the pork and the sherry. Stir-fry for 1 minute or until the pork is completely gray. Remove the pork to a warm platter.
Reheat the pan. Add the remaining peanut oil and the remaining salt. Just before the oil begins to smoke, (never have figured out how to determine this <G>) add the green beans and stir fry for 1 minute. Add the water.
Cover and cook for ½ minute.
Uncover the pan and add the bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, peanuts, oyster sauce, and the pork. Stir-fry for 1½ minutes. Just before removing the pan from the heat stir in the sesame oil.
Each participant serves herself by taking a lettuce leaf, spreading it with hoisin sauce, putting about 2 tablespoons of the pork mixture in the centre of the leaf, and wrapping the leaf around the filling. Eat finger-fashion.
One can use asparagus rather than beans or chicken rather than pork - I've also used shrimp.
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 229 by "sasha" <sasha@...> on Nov 9, 1997