Recipe - Stir-Fried Beef And Onions

One half pound Lean beef
1 tablespoon Cornstarch
1 tablespoon Soy sauce
One fourth teaspoon Pepper
3 lg Onions
2 tablespoon Oil
One half teaspoon Salt
1 One half tablespoon Oil

1. Slice beef thin against the grain. Combine cornstarch, soy sauce and
pepper; add to beef and toss to coat. Slice onions.

2. Heat oil. Add salt, then onions, and stirfry until translucent but
still crisp. Remove from pan.

3. Heat remaining oil. Add beef and stirfry, until it begins to brown.

4. Return onions and stirfry to heat through and blend flavors (about 1
minute more). Serve at once. VARIATIONS:

In step 1, add to the cornstarch mixture 1 tablespoon sherry or 1/2
teaspoon peanut oil. Omit the pepper.

In step 3, add to the hot oil 2 teaspoons fermented black beans (soaked)
and stirfry a few times; then add beef.

After step 3, sprinkle beef with a few drops of sesame oil.

In step 4, stir in with the onions a mixture of 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1
tablespoon sherry, One half teaspoon salt and One half teaspoon sugar. Omit the salt
in step 2.

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