Nothing beats the best simple
home cook dish. Romaine Lettuce is called Yau Mak in Cantonese dialect.
Everyone is so use to calling it Yau Mak until many does not know the English
name of this vegetable. It is a vegetable with folic acid or folate. Those into
making a new family member, hope you consume more of this vegetable. I am out
of ingredient today to I am using the fermented bean curb for additional taste.
The one I bought is Fermented
Bean Curb with sesame oil.
There are so many types of
fermented food, this here can also be called Fu Yee in Cantonese dialect or
some even call it Chinese cheese. Made
out of soy beans, salt and wine. I love its creamy, salty aromatic taste.
Unlike cheese, these come in tiny bottles cut into tiny cubes, just like your size
of your tiny butter for bread but still soak in some liquid, brine. Don’t pour
the liquid away as it will make your bean curb grow cotton fungus. 1 cube for
fits in for 1 chinese ceramic spoon. It seems for better improved flavor you
could keep it longer example for several years. But I don’t think I will try
that as there is an expiry date printed on my bottle.
The one I bought is the white color,
there are others which taste a little spicy or a little sweeter or fragrant
sesame oil. All of these will come with some brine in the bottle. What is
brine? It was said it was some mixture of
vinegar,Chinese rice wine and other seasoning. They will be fermented
for over six months with the soy. Another
famous flavor is the red fermented some Chinese call it the “hong fu yee” the
ingredient for this comes with red yeast rice. Usually people with marinate
this with meat and fry them. You would smell the delicious aromatic smell for
this. After frying the meat, it looks dark red.
Ingredients
2 cloves garlic
2 cubes Fermented Bean Curb
Prepare & cook
Fry 2 cloves garlic for 2 minutes
till aromatic smell
2 cubes Fermented Bean Curb
(squash it)
(if pan dry up due to bean curb,
add 1 tablespoon water)
Add vegetable. Fry 2 minutes
Ready to serve
