Recipe - Beef Sauce For Noodles

1 cup Beef
1 Clove garlic
1 small Onion
1 Tomato
2 tablespoon Oil
One half teaspoon Salt
Three fourths cup Stock
One half teaspoon Sugar
1 tablespoon Cornstarch
3 tablespoon Water
Chinese parsley

1. Mince or grind beef. Mince garlic and onion. Peel tomato and cut in
wedges.

2. Heat oil. Add salt, then garlic and onion; stirfry until translucent.
Add beef; stirfry to brown lightly.

3. Add stock, sugar and tomato wedges. Heat quickly, stirring.

4. Meanwhile blend cornstarch and cold water to a paste; then stir in to
thicken. Pour sauce over noodles. Garnish with parsley and serve.

VARIATION: Omit the tomato and sugar. Instead, after step 2, add to beef 1
cup fresh mushrooms, 2 celery stalks and 1 green pepper, all minced .
Stirfry 1 to 2 minutes more; then add the stock and simmer, covered, 2 to
3 minutes. Pick up step 4.

From The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook, ISBN 0517658704. Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.