Recipe - Stir-Fried Beef And Ginger Root

One half pound Lean beef
One fourth cup Fresh ginger root
One fourth cup Scallion stalks
1 tablespoon Cornstarch
2 tablespoon Water
2 tablespoon Oil
One half teaspoon Salt
2 teaspoon Soy sauce
1 pn Sugar
One fourth cup Stock

1. Cut beef against the grain in 1/4inch slices, then in 1 by 2inch
strips. Peel ginger root; slice as thin as possible. Cut scallions in
1inch sections.

2. Blend cornstarch and cold water to a paste.

3. Heat oil. Add salt, then ginger root and scallion. Stirfry a few times.
Add beef and stirfry until it loses its redness (about 1 minute).

4. Add soy sauce and sugar and stirfry 1 to 2 minutes more. Then add stock
and stir in well.

5. Stir in cornstarch paste to thicken. Serve at once.

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