There was some leftover lettuce from making salads, thus the idea of making these -- lettuce dumplings. These do require a bit of preparation work but it's a healthy dish with meat and vegetables all in one!
Ingredients:
a few whole lettuce leaves
carrot shreds (for decoration)
minced pork
dried chinese mushrooms (soaked and sliced)
light soya sauce
black pepper
1) To start, steam the lettuce leaves for a few minutes until soft enough to wrap the meat
2) Season the minced pork with some light soya sauce and black pepper. You may like to add in the mushrooms (or any other ingredients, like prawns) to this mixture too.
3) Once the lettuce is ready and have cooled down sufficiently to handle, wrap little parcels of meat mixture in each lettuce leaf, much like wrapping a popiah
4) Arrange the lettuce dumplings on a plate and top each one with some shredded carrot for decoration. I added a little of the water used to soak the chinese mushrooms to the plate, then steamed for about 15 minutes until the dumplings are cooked. (timing depends on the size of the dumplings)
