Quick-Fried Beef with Scallion

Name: Quick-Fried Beef with Scallion (Ts’ung pao niu jou)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 cups shredded scallion; 3 tablespoons sliced garlic; ½ pound sliced beef (2” x 2”, very thin); 1 tablespoon cold water; 1 tablespoon cornstarch; 5 tablespoons oil; ½ teaspoon salt (to marinate beef); ½ teaspoon salt (to marinate beef); 2 tablespoons soy sauce; ½ tablespoons wine; 1 teaspoon sesame oil; 1 tablespoon oil; ¼ teaspoon black pepper

Ts’ung pao niu jou

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

½ pound sliced beef (2” x 2”, very thin)
3 tablespoons sliced garlic

Asia
Taiwan
Dinner

Method

Prepare the beef marinade in a bowl. Then add the sliced beef (the beef slice must be paper thin). Mix thoroughly with your fingers. Set aside and soak at least 10 minutes.
Put oil in a pan. Turn the pan around so that the oil covers about 1 foot diameter.
When the oil is smoking hot, put the sliced garlic in. Then add the sliced beef. Stir over high