Stir Fry Romaine Lettuce with Fermented Bean Curb

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