Stir fried Lettuce

Last night, I got the craving to eat “Lai Patta” or lettuce leafs. Stir fried lettuce is made by almost every local household in Arunachal Pradesh/ Nagaland/ Assam/ Mizoram/ Meghalaya. Now the lettuce leafs that you get in the North eastern states is lot different than you get outside

So what we need

One bunch of lettuce leafs – Please remember that once cooking is done, the quantity would look very less

• 2 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
• 1 1/2 teaspoons minced ginger
• 1/8 – 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 1 tbs of fine granulated sugar – means small fine almost powdered sugar
• 2 teaspoons soy sauce
• 1 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil - NO mustard oil please

Preparation (15-20 minutes including the preparation time)

Wash the lettuce, drain and separate the leaves. It’s important to make sure the lettuce is dry. Combine the soy sauce and sugar in a small bowl and mix well.

Heat a wok on medium-high heat and add oil. When the oil is hot, add the garlic, ginger and red pepper flakes. Stir-fry until aromatic (5 - 10 seconds) and add the lettuce. Stir-fry the lettuce, sprinkling with the salt, for 1 - 2 minutes, until the leaves begin to wilt.

Give the sauce a quick re-stir and swirl it into the wok. Stir-fry for 1 - 2 more minutes, until the lettuce turns dark green.

And its done

For Pork lovers

I do not eat pork but I know one thing for sure that this is a great recipe. I make it with Chicken. You can still follow this recipe.Something I found in a social networking website. Simply copy the link into a new address bar for details

http://pt-br.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=147637478608147

My favorite Sponge cake

Why a recipe for sponge cake? 

Because we all love a good tasty sponge cake yet not many can achieve to make the fluffiest cake. This is my tried and tested recipe and I love it any day. It will not take more than 1 hour to bake this.
Ingredients 

4 eggs
1 cup sugar (powdered)

1 cup of any light refine oil. I actually did not have good results when I used butter
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt

Method

1. Beat eggs in large mixing bowl with paddle attachment for 4 minutes.  Not in a mixture and make sure you do it religiously

2. Add sugar, and continue beating for another 4-5 minutes until light and fluffy.  

3. In a separate bowl, sift together dry ingredients.  Add to eggs and sugar on low speed until just combined.

4. Pour into two greased and floured 8" round cake pans. 

5. Preheat the oven at 180/200 and than bake at 325 until the middle springs back when touched, or a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from oven and let stand in pans for 10 minutes. 
 Its done.

Before baking the mixture, I sprinkled lots of raisins on top as I love raisins. You can your choices of dry fruits.