Serves: 4
Total Calories: 166

1/2 pound lean beef
1 teaspoon cornstarch
2 teaspoons sherry
1/2 teaspoon soy sauce
1/4 teaspoon sugar
1/2 cup tea bag melon
2 tablespoons oils
1/2 teaspoon salt

1. Shred beef. Combine cornstarch, sherry, soy sauce and sugar. Add to beef and toss to coat.

2. Shred tea melon.

3. Heat oil. Add salt, then beef, and stir-fry until meat begins to brown.

4. Add tea melon and stir-fry to heat through and blend flavors (about 1 1/2 minutes more). Serve at once.

NOTE: Use the tea melon that comes combined with preserved ginger root (shred the latter as well).

The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook. ©1994 by Gloria Bley Miller.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 4
Total Calories: 166
Calories from Fat: 101

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