How to cook lettuce, how to eat lettuce

Lettuce looks like a very common vegetable, but if you want to eat it more nutritiously, you have to be more scientific.

When we make cold dishes, many people will think of lettuce. From the name, we can easily see that lettuce is the most suitable vegetable to eat raw. Lettuce is rich in nutrients, with more fiber and vitamin C than cabbage, and it can eliminate excess fat. In addition to being eaten raw or stir-fried, lettuce can also be stir-fried with minced garlic, oyster sauce, tofu, and mushrooms. Different combinations will produce different effects.

Garlic Lettuce

In addition to the effects of stir-fried lettuce, garlic lettuce also has the effects of sterilization, anti-inflammatory and lowering blood sugar, and can even nourish the brain. Lettuce is rich in vitamins and has the effects of preventing gum bleeding and vitamin C deficiency. Garlic has the effects of detoxification, promoting circulation and strengthening the stomach. It has a certain therapeutic effect on cold pain in the abdomen, dysentery, diarrhea, tuberculosis, whooping cough, colds, malaria and other diseases.

Stir-fried lettuce

Stir-fried lettuce has the effects of lettuce itself, such as analgesia and hypnosis, lowering cholesterol, auxiliary treatment of neurasthenia, diuresis, promoting blood circulation, and antiviral.

Lettuce with oyster sauce

Oyster sauce is not oil, but the soup left over from cooking oysters (also known as oysters). This soup is filtered and concentrated to become oyster sauce. It is a delicious seasoning with multiple nutrients. Therefore, oyster sauce lettuce not only has the effects of lowering blood lipids, blood pressure, blood sugar, promoting intellectual development and anti-aging, but also can promote diuresis, promote blood circulation, resist viruses, and prevent and treat heart disease and liver disease.

Lettuce and Tofu

Eating lettuce with nutritious tofu is a high-protein, low-fat, low-cholesterol, multi-vitamin dish that has the effects of clearing the liver and gallbladder, nourishing yin and kidney, whitening the skin, and reducing weight and keeping fit. It also has a certain therapeutic effect on red and swollen eyes, lung heat cough, thirst, spleen deficiency and abdominal distension, etc. Mushrooms are rich in protein that is easily absorbed by the human body, and have the effects of nourishing the spleen and qi, moistening dryness and resolving phlegm, and strong nourishing effects. Eating them with lettuce has a certain therapeutic effect on hot cough, phlegm, chest tightness, vomiting and diarrhea, etc.

Experts say that in terms of the therapeutic effects of dishes, stir-fried lettuce is not as effective as lettuce with oyster sauce and lettuce with mushrooms. Although lettuce with tofu has high nutritional value, gout patients should be careful when eating it because tofu contains more purine. Lettuce with oyster sauce and lettuce with mushrooms are more suitable for the public than lettuce with garlic sauce, and have better therapeutic effects. As for garlic lettuce, patients with eye diseases such as glaucoma and cataracts should not eat it frequently because "constant consumption of garlic can damage the liver and eyes."

Lettuce cooking tips

1. Because there may be residues of pesticides and fertilizers, be sure to wash it before eating it raw.

2. It is extremely sensitive to ethylene and should be stored away from apples, pears and bananas to avoid inducing reddish-brown spots.

3. Whether you are stir-frying or boiling the lettuce, don't cook it for too long, so as to keep the lettuce crispy and tender.

4. Tear the lettuce into slices with your hands, it will taste crisper than if it was cut with a knife.

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Lettuce in Korean cuisine

Koreans are the first ethnic group in East Asia to use lettuce in their diet. The most well-known is Korean barbecue, which is eaten with lettuce wrapped in sauce. It not only relieves greasiness, but also adds a fresh, cool and sweet taste and supplements vitamins.

This way of eating has been popular since at least the late Goryeo Dynasty.