Asian Recipe - Stir Fry Beef with Ginger

Ingredients

• 350 grammes of beef flank or tender slices
• 8 slices of old ginger (have more if you are using young ginger)
• 5 cloves of garlic (chopped)
• 3 stalks spring onions (cut to 6 cm lengths)
• 30 ml warm water
• Corn starch (add 1 tablespoon corn flour to 3 tablespoons of water and mix well)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons Cooking oil (palm oil)

Method

Heat the oil in a work or large frying pan (skillet) and fry (saute) the beef, ginger and garlic until browned. Stir in the corn, mangetout, red pepper, water chestnuts and nuts and stir-fry for 3 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients and cook for 1 minute, then serve immediately with Egg Fried Rice.

Seasoning

• 2 teaspoons oyster sauce
• Salt to taste
• a dash of white pepper powder
• a dash of black pepper powder
• 1 teaspoon chinese cooking wine

Footnotes

Nutritional Analysis: 1 cup beef mixture (prepared with reduced-sodium soy sauce and 1 tablespoon oil; calculated without rice) equals 304 calories, 14 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 64 mg cholesterol, 368 mg sodium, 18 g carbohydrate, 4 g fiber, 26 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 2 vegetable, 1 fat, 1/2 starch.