Recipe - Quick-Fried Beef With Oyster Sauce

1 pound Beef steak
One half teaspoon Salt
3 One half tablespoon Vegetable oil
1 tablespoon Soy sauce
2 teaspoon Cornstarch
2 tablespoon Water
2 tablespoon Sherry
4 tablespoon Beef stock
2 sl Ginger root
2 One half tablespoon Oyster sauce
Three fourths teaspoon Sugar
Pepper to taste

Cut the beef into small thin slices and rub these with the salt and 1/2
tablespoon of oil. Mix the soy sauce, cornstarch, water, sherry and stock
in a bowl until well blended. Finely chop the ginger. Heat the oil in a
frying pan. When hot add the beef, spreading the pieces out, and stirfry
them over a high heat for 1 minute. Add the ginger, followed by the oyster
sauce and sugar, and continue to stirfry for 30 seconds. Pour in the sauce
mixture from the bowl, and continue to stirfry over a high heat for a
further minute. Serve immediately on a wellheated dish. This mixture of
seafood flavor with meat is a common Cantonese practice which most
southerners enjoy, but hich is not always accepted in central and north
China.

Recipe By : Chinese Regional Cooking by Kenneth Lo

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