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How to pickle lettuce

Two ways to pickle lettuce Homemade dried lettuce

Sweet sauce lettuce

Materials: fresh lettuce, sweet flour sauce, salt, sugar

Practice:

1, lettuce peeled and cut into large or hobnail block yard in a small pot, sprinkle into the salt marinade for half a day.

2, marinated half a day lettuce can be soft after the lettuce can be placed in a ventilated place, dry.

3, put the dried lettuce yards in the small pots or tiles used for pickles, pour in sweet flour sauce, a little sugar.

4, turn the lettuce, so that the sweet sauce covered lettuce, turning once a day sauce 20 days can be.

5, sauce good lettuce can be shredded or sliced can be eaten.

Hints:

1, after pickling can also be used to soak in water for a period of time to desalt and then dry, so that the sauce of the pickle flavor is sweet and sour.

2, vegetables after fine salt pickling in the sauce taste will be crisp.

3, in fact, pickling at room temperature for about 7 days can be, but pickled pickles to pickle more than 20 days before consumption, can reduce the damage of nitrite.

4, do not like the sour flavor of the pickle pot can be placed in the refrigerator freezer pickling.

Millet chili pickled lettuce

Materials: lettuce (after peeling) 5 pounds, half a bottle of soy sauce, half a bottle of 3.5 degrees of white vinegar, 100g of rock sugar, 45g of salt, 100g of millet chili, gauze pockets 1

Practice:

1, the lettuce will be peeled, cut into thumb-thick strips.

2, pour 45g of salt to marinate, marinate for about half a day to let the lettuce out of the water.

3, the pickled lettuce with gauze pockets, water pressure, a night time it, so that the lettuce will be more crisp.

4, the pressure of the water lettuce back into the basin, seasoning, pour half a bottle of soy sauce, half a bottle of white vinegar (to choose 3.5-4 degrees of white vinegar, if it is 9 degrees of white vinegar, we must reduce the amount of discretionary), 100g of rock sugar and 100g of millet spicy. Marinate for half a day to fully flavor the lettuce.

5. Fish out the lettuce again and drain. Reduce the remaining stock over low heat to remove excess water. Simmer until slightly thickened on it.

6, the last will collect the juice and then drizzle to the drained lettuce, stir well, you can use a sealed jar packed frozen into the refrigerator freezer, anytime you want to eat to clip some of them out on OK! The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have the right ingredients for your meal!

Tips:

1. 5 pounds of lettuce means 5 pounds of net weight after removing the lettuce skin.

2. The best white vinegar to use 3.5-4 degrees of white vinegar, if you use 9 degrees of white vinegar to reduce the amount of discretion, otherwise it will be too acidic.

3.100g millet spicy is also adjusted according to their own taste.

4. The whole process of pickling almost 2 days, mainly to try to remove the lettuce itself water, so that it will be more crisp, but also will increase the shelf life.

5. In addition to lettuce, you can also choose white radish, cucumber. The method is the same.

Dried lettuce production method

Instruments: lettuce 3000 grams, 180 grams of salt (sun-dried roughly 200 grams)

Practice:

1, fresh lettuce stripped leaves, peeled, washed, the thicker parts of the cut into 8, the head of the head of the parts of the slightly thin on the peeling. Put on the sun screen to dry the water.

2, will dry the surface water of the lettuce yards in the pot, sprinkle a layer of salt, so, yard all the lettuce. Cover with a house of plastic wrap and press a heavy object on top.

3, pickling at least 12 hours, lettuce will pickle a lot of water out.

4, will be pickled out of the water after the lettuce on the sun screen, the sun in the big sun for about 3 days until dry can be put away.

TIPS:

1, pickled can be daytime sun exposure, the night time with a plastic bag, and then use a heavy weight on top, so that the lettuce contained in the water faster pressure out, shorten the time of the sun. If the weather is not good, it is even more important to do so, so as not to lettuce surface formation of mucus and mold.

2, the general sun 1, 2 days of lettuce can be fried to eat, this time there has been a sense of crispness and chewy, but to be kept for a long time, it is necessary to completely dry.