Serves: 4
Total Calories: 24

1 pound bean sprouts
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 teaspoon sugar
few drops sesame oil

1. Blanch bean sprouts. Transfer to a bowl.

2. Combine soy sauce, sugar and sesame oil. Pour over bean sprouts and toss gently. Refrigerate, covered, only to chill (about 20 minutes).

VARIATIONS:
* For the sesame oil, substitute 1 1/2 tablespoons peanut oil.
* Add 1 tablespoon vinegar to the dressing.
* In step 1, add to the blanched bean sprouts 1/4 pound water cress, cut in 1-inch lengths, with tough stems removed.
* In step 1, add to the blanched bean sprouts 1/2 cup chicken or ham, slivered. (When using ham, substitute 1/2 teaspoon salt for the sugar.)
* After step 2, top the bean sprouts with 1/2 cup chicken or ham, slivered or 1/2 cup roast pork, slivered (toss the pork first in 1 tablespoon soy sauce and 1 1/2 teaspoons peanut oil).
* Garnish the bean sprouts with any of the following: egg threads, sweet red pepper, slivered or snow peas, blanched and shredded.

The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook. ©1994 by Gloria Bley Miller.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 4
Total Calories: 24
Calories from Fat: 0

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Braised Mushrooms
Celery And Carrot Salad
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Chinese Sausages
Cold Chicken And Cucumber
Cold Chicken Sesame
Cold Sherry Chicken
Cold Shrimp And Cauliflower
Crabmeat And Cucumbers
Dried Jellyfish And Turnips
Eggplant Salad
Marinated Abalone
Marinated Mushrooms I
Marinated Mushrooms II
Oyster Sauce Mushrooms
Pickled Cabbage
Pickled Celery
Pickled Chinese Cabbage
Pickled Chinese Lettuce
Pickled Mustard Cabbage
Pickled Turnips
Preserved Eggs
Preserved Eggs with Ham and Vegetables
Pseudo Smoked Fish
Red-Simmered Chicken Wings
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Shredded Cucumbers
Shrimp Toast
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