Eating in China
Generated ingredient illustration: Dried lettuce-stem strips.

Dried lettuce-stem strips

贡菜Gòngcài

Lettuce stems peeled, cut into strips and dehydrated into a crisp-textured vegetable ingredient.

Type
Vegetables

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Lettuce stems peeled, cut into strips and dehydrated into a crisp-textured vegetable ingredient.

In the kitchen

Gongcai is among the diced filling ingredients in Weining xiaobaba.

The varieties grown for drying differ from ordinary fresh celtuce. Prepared dry strips are distinct from fresh lettuce leaves.

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