Description
Hand-torn lettuce submerged instantly in hot five-spice soup. Retains raw crispness while intense sweetness of heated lettuce fuses with soup.
Restaurants serving Lettuce Luwei (Quick & Budget)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Lettuce
- Quick Lu Zhi (soy
- Mentsuyu
- cola
- five-spice etc.)
- Tube garlic
- Sesame oil
Instructions
- [Authentic & Quick Recipe]
- [Lettuce Prep] Core regular super lettuce (half head), hand-tear large without knife. Wash briefly in cold water to crisp, drain firmly.
- [Lu Zhi Utilizing Color & Aroma] Boil cola (a little), soy, Mentsuyu (dashi sub), tube garlic, sesame oil, five-spice violently on high. Lettuce releases water, so make sauce slightly strong.
- [10-Sec Shabu-shabu Heating] Vigorously toss lettuce into boiling soup. Overcooking lettuce makes it completely gooey and bitter, so submerge entirely with chopsticks 'firmly' and quickly pull out with strainer in just '
- secs'.
- [Finishing] Spread flat on plate to remove heat, preventing residual cooking. Completes ultimate time-performance warm veg tangling raw crispness and warm soup cloaked in five-spice aroma.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Exotic five-spice aroma、sesame oil、garlic punch
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Cabbage or napa cabbage (but can't beat lettuce's 'cooks in seconds' ease)
Pairing
Boiled dumplings、Fried rice(ultimate palate cleanser for greasy dishes)
Trivia
[For Women] #36 'Weight-loss ingredient'. In Japan, lettuce is basically salad (raw), but in Taiwan, 'briefly cooking (Tang Qingcai)' in stir-fries or Luwei is a massive staple. Heating reduces bulk to the limit and draws out the intense sweetness dormant inside. Ultimate lifehack for dieters' fiber supply, effortlessly polishing off a half head instantly.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Shake Taiwan's unique 'You Cong Su (fried shallots)' heavily, adding junk savoriness to crisp lettuce to eat munchingly!
Allergen
Soy, Wheat (from soy/Mentsuyu), Sesame