Chinese Vegetables Recipes - Fried Bean Sprouts Recipe

Ingredients

• 8-10 tablespoons bean sprouts

• 3 tablespoons very thin lean boiled ham

• 2 thin slices fresh ginger

• 1 small sliced onion

• 1 1/2 dessertspoons peanut oil

• pinch salt

• tiny pinch each sugar and Ve-Tsin (M.S.G.)

• 1/2 teaspoon ginger sherry

• 1 teaspoon sesame oil

• 1 dessertspoon chicken stock

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Method:

1. Pick the bean sprouts over carefully, rinse and dry thoroughly. Cut the ham, ginger and onions in thin strips and have them ready separately.

2. Heat 1 dessertspoon oil in a frying-pan and cook the onion pieces in it for 2 minutes, moving them about. Add the ginger, cook for 1/2 minute, then add the bean sprouts and toss all about for 2 minutes.

3. Add the salt, sugar and Ve-Tsin and continue to turn the mixture over and over. Finally, add the sherry, sesame oil and stock and heat through. Turn all into a heated serving dish.

4. Wipe out the pan. Heat the remaining oil in it then toss the thin strips of ham in it for 1/4 minute. Place them on top of the bean sprouts and serve.