Stir-fried meat with lettuce is a classic home-cooked dish, and it usually tastes better when stir-fried with the meat on the front leg. The meat quality of the front leg meat is relatively lean, and many people directly put it in and fry it, and the meat quality is old and woody. Some people like to hang the paste with water starch when stir-frying meat, so that although the fried meat is relatively tender, it does not look good to the senses. Some people think that the meat is a bit fishy when stir-fried, so they like to marinate it in advance with cooking wine, which is actually not the best choice. Today I will share with you a method, the fried lean meat is tender and delicious.
【Stir-fried shredded meat with lettuce】
Ingredients: front leg meat, cooking oil, egg, green onion, garlic, salt, monosodium glutamate, light soy sauce
Here’s how:
1. Prepare a piece of front leg meat, slice first, then shredded, do not cut the meat too finely, moderate can be, put on a plate for later.
2. Prepare another slice of ginger, cut a few spring onions into green onion segments, put them in a bowl, add a little water, and knead the juice with your hands. The green onion and ginger water are ready. Let’s scoop out the green onion and ginger and set it aside.
3. Pour the juice and water into the lean meat twice, and directly grasp and mix it by hand, so that the lean meat can fully absorb the flavor of the seasoning water. About two or three minutes of grabbing and stirring, the meat is almost flavorful.
4. Then beat an egg white into the bowl, continue to grasp and mix well with your hands, then add a little salt to the meat, finally add a little light soy sauce, add a little cooking oil, lock in the moisture, and continue to grasp and mix with your hands to let the meat shredded into the bottom and umami flavor. After grasping and mixing, set aside for about 10 minutes to continue to taste.
5. When marinating meat, you can prepare side dishes. Prepare a green shoot, wash and peel, cut first, then slice, and finally cut into even filaments and plate for later use. Prepare a few millet peppers, cut into chili rings, and chop a few garlic into minced garlic.
6. Hot pan cold oil, pour into the shredded meat after the oil is hot, here the oil can be slightly more than usual, and quick stir-frying over high heat can reduce the loss of moisture in the shredded meat and ensure the tender taste. Stir constantly with chopsticks to slice the shredded meat, then fry the lean meat until it has just changed color, turn off the heat and set aside.
7. Heat the oil again, and after the oil is hot, fry the millet pepper and minced garlic until fragrant. Then pour in the shredded bamboo shoots and stir-fry quickly over high heat. After stir-frying lettuce until broken, pour in the freshly fried shredded meat, add a spoonful of salt, a spoonful of chicken essence, an appropriate amount of light soy sauce, stir-fry over high heat, so that all the ingredients can fully absorb the aroma of the seasoning. Stir-fry for a while and it will come out of the pan.
【Love Tips】
1. When choosing meat, try to prepare the front leg meat, so that the taste of the meat is more tender.
2. When cutting meat, you can put it in the refrigerator in advance and freeze it for half an hour, so that it is easier to cut and the cut meat is relatively even.
3. Do not add cooking wine when marinating lean meat, cooking wine can only play a fishy role when stir-frying over high heat. If cooking wine is added when marinating meat, it will make the meat woody and will have a strange smell.
4. When stir-frying meat, a little more heat can reduce the loss of moisture in fresh meat and ensure the tender taste of pork.
The delicious lettuce stir-fried shredded meat is ready, the meat quality is tender and not woody or fishy, especially tender and delicious, friends who like it can try it at home.
