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Stir-Fried Pork and Lotus Root

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Meats Chinese Meat 4 Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2 lb Lean pork
1 lb Fresh lotus root
2 tb Sherry
1 tb Soy sauce
1/2 ts Salt
2 tb Oil
1/2 c Stock

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Slice pork thin against the grain. Peel lotus root and slice thin.
Combine sherry, soy sauce and salt.
2. Heat oil. Add pork and stir-fry until it loses its pinkness (about 2
minutes).
3. Add lotus root and stir-fry 2 minutes more. Then stir in sherry-soy
mixture to blend.
4. Stir in stock and heat quickly, then cook, covered, over medium heat
until lotus root is done (about 5 minutes). Serve at once.
From <The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook>, ISBN 0-517-65870-4. Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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