Recipe - Hot Sesame Seed Beef

MARINADE
1 tablespoon Rice wine
One half teaspoon Sugar
2 teaspoon Cornstarch
One half teaspoon Baking powder
5 teaspoon Sesame oil
5 teaspoon Soy sauce

TOPPING
1 tablespoon Sesame seeds
1 One half teaspoon Hot bean paste
1 One half teaspoon Hoisin sauce
1 One half teaspoon Oyster sauce

BEEF
1 teaspoon Minced ginger
2/3 pound Beef tenderloin
flank
Peanut oil (24 T)
4 Lettuce leaves
(or less; use
bokchoy if you
can get it)

Mix together all of the marinade ingredients. Slice the beef across the
grain into thin, diagonal pieces (about the size of your smallest finger).
Marinate for about half an hour.

Heat the wok until a drop of water dropped into it dances around as it
boils. Add enough oil to coat the wok and saute the ginger. Stirfry the
lettuce. Stirfry the beef (in batches so the wok doesn't cool down too
much).

Reduce the heat. Return the vegetables to the wok. Add the topping. Stir
around until everything is mixed and heated evenly. Serve.

NOTES:

* Very hot, very simple, very good beef stirfry This recipe has been
floating around for years back east, where it's also known as Hot Flaming
Death.

* Also add any other vegetables that you feel like. Sliced carrots or
broccoli are especially nice.

* Hot bean paste also goes by the name Szechuan bean sauce etc. This is
the main "spicy" ingredient and should be handled with care. Vary this
ingredient to taste.

: Difficulty: easy.
: Time: preparation: 20 minutes, cooking: 3 minutes.
: Precision: No need to measure.

: Edward Falk / Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, California, USA
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