Serves: 4
Total Calories: 342
1. Mince or grind beef. Mince ginger root. Shell and parboil peas.
2. In one cup, combine soy sauce, sherry, salt and sugar. In another, blend cornstarch and cold water to a paste.
3. Heat oil. Add ginger, then beef and stir-fry until beef begins to brown.
4. Stir in soy sauce mixture to blend.
5. Add parboiled peas and stir-fry 1 to 2 minutes more. (Taste peas to see if they're done.)
6. Stir in cornstarch paste to thicken and serve at once.
NOTE: If the mixture becomes too dry in step 5, add a few spoonfuls of liquid from the parboiled peas.
VARIATIONS:
* In step 1, mince or grind 4 to 6 water chestnuts with the beef.
* In step 1, add to the beef and ginger root the seasonings and 2 teaspoons cornstarch. Blend well and let stand 15 minutes. Omit steps 2, 4, and 6.
* In step 3, before adding the beef, add to the hot oil 1/4 pound fresh mushrooms and/or 1 onion, sliced thin. Stir-fry until slightly softened then remove from pan. Add more oil and stir-fry beef as indicated. Return mushrooms and/or onion in step 5, when adding the peas.
* Do not parboil the peas. After step 4, remove the beef from pan. Add more oil and heat. Then add the peas 1/4 cup celery and 1/2 cup onion, both diced, and stir-fry to coat with oil. Stir in and quickly heat 1/2 cup stock, 1/4 teaspoon sugar and 1 teaspoon soy sauce. Cook, covered, until vegetables are nearly done. Return beef and reheat then pick up step 6.
* After step 4, stir in 2 cups cooked rice. Then add the peas and a few tablespoons of their parboiling liquid to moisten the mixture. Cook, stirring, to heat through.
* Prepare 1/8 pound thin rice-flour noodles as a deep-fried, crisp white garnish. (See HOW-TO, _Noodles, Rice-Flour: To prepare as a garnish.) Arrange on a serving platter with beef and peas on top.
The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook. ©1994 by Gloria Bley Miller.
This Stir-Fried Beef And Peas recipe is from the Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook Cookbook. Download this Cookbook today.
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