Recipe - Stir-Fried Abalone With Oyster Sauce

1 cn (15oz) abalone
2 tablespoon Smoked ham
1 tablespoon Cornstarch
1/3 cup Abalone liquid
1 tablespoon Soy sauce
3 tablespoon Oyster sauce
2 tablespoon Oil

1. Drain canned abalone and cut in 1inch cubes. Reserve liquid. Mince
smoked ham.

2. Blend cornstarch and abalone liquid to a paste; then stir in soy and
oyster sauces.

3. Heat oil. Add abalone; stirfry to heat through (about 1 minute). 4.
Then stir in cornstarch mixture to thicken. (Do not cook more than 11/2
minutes or the abalone will toughen.) Garnish with minced ham and serve.

NOTE: Save the remainder of the abalone liquid for soup. VARIATIONS:

1. Omit the oyster sauce. Double the quantity of soy sauce.

2. In step 2, instead of adding the soy and oyster sauces to the cornstarch
paste, add them in step 3, after abalone has been stirfried One half minute.
Then pick up step 4.

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