Quick-Fried Beef With Oyster Sauce

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Title: QUICK-FRIED BEEF WITH OYSTER SAUCE
Categories: Beef, Chinese
Yield: 6 Servings

1 lb Beef steak
1/2 ts Salt
3 1/2 tb Vegetable oil
1 tb Soy sauce
2 ts Cornstarch
2 tb Water
2 tb Sherry
4 tb Beef stock
2 sl Ginger root
2 1/2 tb Oyster sauce
3/4 ts Sugar
Pepper -- to taste

Cut the beef into small thin slices and rub these with the salt and
1/2 tablespoon of oil. Mix the soy sauce, cornstarch, water, sherry
and stock in a bowl until well blended. Finely chop the ginger. Heat
the oil in a frying pan. When hot add the beef, spreading the pieces
out, and stir-fry them over a high heat for 1 minute. Add the ginger,
followed by the oyster sauce and sugar, and continue to stir-fry for
30 seconds. Pour in the sauce mixture from the bowl, and continue to
stir-fry over a high heat for a further minute. Serve immediately on
a well-heated dish.

This mixture of seafood flavor with meat is a common Cantonese
practice which most southerners enjoy, but which is not always
accepted in central and north China.

Recipe By: Chinese Regional Cooking by Kenneth Lo

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