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Skriven 2012-01-23 12:49:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JANIS KRACHT
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 JK> Yeah, was neat to me.. I dunno, been sending recipes for years with no
 JK> response Lol.. maybe they liked the double cumin as well Lol.. but
 JK> really that was a typo or bad cut and paste here. :)

Who knows what the criteria were, but congrats anyway, and
hope you figure out how to get printed there again.

 JK> tonight I made stir fried duck, last of the Peking Duck we had the
 JK> other night: 
 JK> ===Stir fried Duck ===
 JK> About 2 cups duck meat, julienned
 JK> 2 carrots, julienned
 JK> 2 sticks of celery julienned
 JK> 2 green onions, sliced in one inch sections 3 tablespoons peanut oil
 JK> 2 cloves garlic, minced
 JK> 1" fresh ginger

Looks good. This could well be tossed into lo mein. What's
missing is some black mushrooms.

 JK> Some recipes I've seen also add bean sprouts with the carrots and
 JK> celery, and some use bok choy instead of celery. I'm not crazy about
 JK> bean sprouts though. 

Celery isn't that common an ingredient in real Chinese
stir-fries - it's generally used braised, though there
are some stir-fries with carrots and beef, which I enjoy
very much. The story, which I find semi-plausible, is
that Cantonese cooks, accustomed to celery being very
rare and costly, were delighted when they came to the
US and found it plentiful, so they started overloading
their dishes with it. Bok choy, I've seen it but don't
favor it in this kind of dish.

Szechwan shredded beef 
cat: main, mine
serves: about 6
 
1 lb lean beef 
1 Tb cornstarch 
1 ts sugar (may be halved) 
2 Tb dry sherry or rice wine 
2 Tb regular soy sauce 
lots of oil for deep-frying 
1 carrot, cut in matchsticks 
1 sm onion (optional), sliced thin 
2 stalks celery, cut in matchsticks 
1 sm green pepper (optional)
- sliced thin and rings cut in thirds
6 dried hot pepper pods (optional) 
1 clove garlic, mashed slightly (optional) 
2 Tb rice vinegar (or 4 ts white vinegar and 2 ts water) 
1 Tb regular soy sauce 
2 ts sesame oil 
1 ts sugar (optional) 
1 ts hot chili oil 
1/2 Tb cornstarch 
 
Cut meat into matchsticks. Meat may be partially frozen beforehand to ease 
this process. Mix in cornstarch, sugar, sherry, soy. Let stand 30 min. 
 
Heat lots of oil to 375 in a wok or deep kettle. Add beef in 2 batches, 
cooking each batch for 1 min, stirring constantly. Set beef aside to 
drain on paper towels. Take another wok or a frying pan; add 2 Tb of 
the used oil (save the rest for reuse another day) and heat with 
hot pepper pods and garlic until oil is about to smoke. If you are 
sensitive to hot pepper fumes, omit the pods. Remove pods and garlic 
and add carrot sticks. Stir. Add onion. Stir-fry for 1 min. Add celery. 
Stir-fry 15 sec. Add green pepper (optional). Stir-fry another 45 sec. 
Add all other ingredients listed. You may return the pepper pods to the 
dish now is you like. Return heat to high, stir in drained cooked beef, 
and heat through. Serve with white rice. 
 
Source: moi

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