Stir-fried beef and oyster sauce #1

4 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
½ pounds Beef
2 tablespoons Oyster sauce
½ teaspoon Salt
½ teaspoon Sugar
1 dash Pepper
¼ cup Stock
2 teaspoons Cornstarch
1 teaspoon Soy sauce
2 tablespoons Water
2 tablespoons Oil

Directions

1. Slice beef thin against the grain.

2. In one cup, combine oyster sauce, salt, sugar, pepper and stock. In another, blend cornstarch, soy sauce and water to a paste.

3. Heat oil. Add beef and stir-fry until it loses its redness (about 2 minutes).

4. Stir in oyster sauce mixture and heat quickly. Cook, covered, 1 minute over medium heat.

5. Stir in cornstarch paste to thicken. Serve at once. VARIATIONS: In step 2, add to the oyster sauce mixture 3 scallion tops, cut in 1-inch sections.

In step 2, omit the stock from the oyster sauce mixture. Add instead: 3 tablespoons sherry, 1 tablespoon soy sauce and 1 to 2 slices fresh ginger root, minced. In step 4, stir this mixture in well. Then add the stock and cook, covered, 1 to 2 minutes. Pick up step 5, but omit soy sauce from the cornstarch paste.

In step 3, before adding the beef, add 1 garlic clove, crushed; and 1 small onion, sliced thin. Stir-fry until onion is translucent.

From <The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook>, ISBN 0-517-65870-4. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .

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