Recipe - Stir-Fried String Beans And White Cheese

1 pound String beans
1 Clove garlic
1 tablespoon Chinese white cheese
One half cup Stock
One fourth teaspoon Sugar
2 tablespoon Oil
One half teaspoon Salt

1. Stem string beans; cut or break in 1One half inch sections, and parboil.
Crush garlic.

2. Blend Chinese white cheese with cold stock and sugar.

3. Heat oil. Add salt, then garlic and brown lightly. Add string beans and
stirfry to coat with oil.

4. Stir in and heat white cheese mixture; then cook, covered, 2 to 3
minutes over medium heat. Serve at once. VARIATIONS:

1. For the string beans, substitute broccoli or cauliflower, parboiled; or
else celery or mustard cabbage, blanched.

2. In step 2, add to the white cheese mixture 1 teaspoon soy sauce, 2
teaspoons sherry, 2 teaspoons white cheese liquid from jar, and 1 slice
fresh ginger root, minced.

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