Beef With Bean Sprouts

Another recipe from Wok with Yan. Very good as part of a Chinese meal.

• Ready In: 25 mins
• Serves: 4
• Yields: 4

Ingredients

• Ingredients

• 10  ounces beef, etc., sliced across the grain (sirloin, flank)
• 2  tablespoons light soy sauce
• 1  tablespoon tapioca starch or 1  tablespoon cornstarch
• 1  tablespoon  peanut oil
• 1  lb bean sprouts
• 1⁄4 cup carrot, slivered
• 1⁄4 cup celery, sliced
• 1  small green pepper, cubed
• 1⁄2 teaspoon  minced ginger
• 1⁄2 teaspoon  minced garlic
• 1  stalk green onion, cut to 1-inch lengths

• Sauce

• 1  teaspoon sugar
• 1  tablespoon light soy sauce
• 1  tablespoon oyster sauce
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1  teaspoon rice wine or 1  teaspoon dry sherry
•  sesame seed oil (drops to taste)
• 1  tablespoon tapioca starch or 1  tablespoon cornstarch
• 1⁄4 cup water

Directions

1. Marinate beef with 2 tablespoons light soy sauce and 1 tablespoons tapioca starch or cornstarch for 5 to 10 minutes.
2. Heat wok. Add 1 tablespoons peanut oil. Add ginger, garlic and onion and stir fry for half a minute. Add beef and stir fry until meat changes colour. Remove and set aside.
3. Add all vegetables and stir fry until tender crisp.
4. Return beef to wok, add sauce, bring to a boil and mix well.