Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

3 tb Vegetable oil
2 md Onions -- finely chopped
5 Cloves garlic -- finely
Chopped
10 Green onions -- dead skin
Peeled off
1 Stalk lemon grass
Cut into 2 inch sections and
Crushed
2 lb Stewing beef -- cut into 1"
Cubes
5 c Water
13 c Yellow bean sauce -- chopped
And crushed
1 ts Chili powder
4 Star anise
1 Inch cinamon stick
1/2 ts Whole peppercorns
Sugar

1. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a wok over a medium high heat. Put in
the onions, garlic, and whole green onions and stir-fry for 2
minutes. Add the lemon grass and continue to stir until the onions
become lightly brown, remove the green onions and set asi 2. Heat the
remaining oil over a high heat. Stir-fry as many pieces of beef as
are convenient until they are brown, turning them over from time to
time. Continue unitl all the beef has been cooked. 3. Add the water.
Add the lemon grass mixture, yellow bean sauce, chili powder, star
anise, cinnamon, peppercorns, and sugar, and bring to a boil.
Cover and lower the heat to simmer gently for 1 1/2 hours. 4. Add the
reserved green onions; cover again and allow to simmer for a further
15 minutes or until the sauce has thickened a little and the meat is
tender.

Recipe Source: VIETNAMESE COOKING - EXOTIC DELIGHTS FROM INDO-CHINA by
Paulette Do Van. Published by Chartwell Books, Inc. Copyright (c)
1993. Recipe formatted by Olivia Liebermann RDSE68B on May, 1995.

Recipe By : "Vietnamese Cooking" by Paulette Do Van, Chartwell
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