Easy Japanese-Style Stir Fry

If you like oriental food but don't know how to make it, I have an easy recipe that you can use with just about any kind of meat and vegetables. It tastes a little salty-sweet and is pretty healthy.

Ingredients:

1 pound of meat (beef, chicken or pork) sliced thin or cut up small.
Various vegetables cut up in small pieces - whatever is in the refrigerator. I normally put things like:

1 onion
as much garlic as you like
1-2 carrots
1/2 green pepper
handfull of green beans
some broccoli
beans sprouts if I have them
cut up spinach is also good - put it in at the end
a few stalks of asparagus
*grated ginger is also good

Sauce

3 Tbs. soy sauce
1 Tbs. sugar
2 Tbs. cooking sherry or mirin
small amount of dashi or chicken boulion granules
1 Tbs. sesame oil
2 tsp. corn starch


Directions:

Stir fry the vegetables in a large skillet until they are about half done. Remove them from the pan.
Stir fry the meat until done. Push it to the sides of the pan.
In the center, add the sauce and stir constantly until it is thick and bubbling.
Return vegetables to the pan and stir together.


Serve hot over white rice.

This dish is very tasty and if you cut the vegetables up very small your children will probably enjoy it as well.