Recipe - Stir-Fried Abalone Wmushroom Bamboo Sh

4 Dried black mushrooms
1 cn (15oz) abalone
1 cup Bamboo shoots
2 Scallion stalks
2 (up to)
3 tablespoon Oil
One half teaspoon Salt
One half cup Abalone liquid
1 tablespoon Sherry

1. Soak dried mushrooms.

2. Drain canned abalone and cut in 1/8inch slices. Reserve liquid. Cut
bamboo shoots and soaked mushrooms in 1/8inch slices. Cut scallion stalks
in 1inch sections.

3. Heat oil. Stir in salt, then bamboo shoots and mushrooms; stirfry to
heat through.

4. Add abalone liquid and sherry. Bring to a boil; then cook, covered, 3
minutes over medium heat.

5. Gently stir in abalone slices and scallions and bring to a boil again.
Serve at once. VARIATIONS:

1. For the dried mushrooms: substitute 1 cup canned button mushrooms.

2. At the end of step 5, thicken with a cornstarch paste made of 1
tablespoon cornstarch, 3 tablespoons cold water and a few drops of sesame
oil.

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