Quick-fried beef with oyster sauce

Yield: 6 Servings

Ingredients:

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

Instructions:

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 hich is not always accepted in central and north China. Recipe By : Chinese Regional Cooking by Kenneth Lo