Sauteed Chinese Lettuce. Eating Lettuce During Chinese New Year. Another fun fact is that lettuce is a very popular vegetable for Chinese New Year. I love to cook simple dishes.

Combine the rice wine or sherry, soy sauce, sugar, and salt in a small bowl. This is great if you have a head of lettuce that you have to use right away. Even if you don't, its still a great side dish to any asian meal. You can cook Sauteed Chinese Lettuce using 5 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sauteed Chinese Lettuce

Prepare 1 of chinese lettuce.
It's slices of Beef.
You need 3 of Shitake mushroom.
It's of Garlic and ginger.
You need of Oyster sauce.

Simple to make, with common ingredients, its a keeper for sure. Try different lettuce varieties, I used romane tonight since its what was on hand. I also didn't have sesamee oil tonight so I used walnut oil and it was still a winner. There are a couple recipes in Chinese cuisine that use raw lettuce leaves to wrap stir-fried prawns or mince.

Sauteed Chinese Lettuce instructions

Just saute all..

There are even a couple recipes that use raw vegetables including cucumber and spring onions, for example in Beijing roast duck wraps but as a general rule Chinese people enjoy "cooked" vegetables a lot more than raw vegetables. This sauteed romaine recipe was a tasty and easy-to-make dish. I've made a similar dish with lettuce and sautéed peas and also cooked all sorts of other greens in a similar sauté fashion. So I'm predisposed to liking both the style of cooking and the flavors. Everything goes faster than one would expect.