Sig's Chinese lettuce (leaf). Sig's Chinese lettuce (leaf) Sigrun German, living in England. Just love eating this the way its served here. What is Chinese Leaf - is it a cabbage or a lettuce?

It's also known as Chinese, napa, or celery cabbage, or wombok. Celtuce (莴笋) or stem lettuce is a long, gnarly, firm, edible stem part of the L. sativa plant. Indeed, both its bitter, tender leaves and jade-green, succulent thick stems are fairly popular as cooked vegetables in the mainland Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine. You can have Sig's Chinese lettuce (leaf) using 5 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sig's Chinese lettuce (leaf)

Prepare of I pointed chinese leaf cabbage.
You need 100 gr of creme fraiche.
Prepare 1/4 of mug vegetable stock made from 2 knorr or similar cubes.
You need Pinch of nutmeg.
You need of Grated cheese (optional).

The most popular leafy lettuce in China is romaine lettuce. According to wiki, China has been the largest producing country. Fry beef mince, grated carrot, chopped garlic, ginger and chilli until the beef is crisp and browned all over. The leaves, sap (latex), and seed are used to make medicine.

Sig's Chinese lettuce (leaf) step by step

First preheat your oven to about 175. Remove the outer leaves and then wash the chinese cabbage whole under the tap. Heat water to boiling point to blanch cabbage for about 2-3 minutes depending on size. Remove from boiling water, discard water. Drain cabbage very well and dry slightly. Cut in to 2 halves or if very large into quarters. Arrange in an ovenproof dish..
Mix the stock cubes with the water, cool down, then mix with the creme fraiche. Pour over the cabbage and then gently heat in oven making sure that creme fresh does not curdle but still browns slightly..
Sprinkle with bacon bits or toasted some garlicky breadcrumbs over it..

Today there are many different types of lettuce available with some of the most well-known being romaine, red and green leaf lettuces. Basically, celtuce is indeed a type of lettuce, but, instead of the lettuce being grown for it's leaves, the stem is harvested and cooked instead. The leaves are edible too, but as celtuce often has quite a journey to get to specialty grocery stores and ethnic markets, the leaves will usually be wilted and unnatractive by the time the get to. Cool season annual vegetables, such as spinach and lettuce, bolt when chilly spring days turn into warm spring days. Bolting lettuce plants become bitter and sharp in taste as they shoot towards the sky.