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Title: Stir-Fried Beef And Oyster Sauce #1
Yield: 4 Servings

Ingredients

    1/2 lb beef
      2 tb oyster sauce
    1/2 ts salt
    1/2 ts sugar
      1 ds pepper
    1/4 c  stock
      2 ts cornstarch
      1 ts soy sauce
      2 tb water
      2 tb oil

Instructions

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 , ISBN 0-517-65870-4. Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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