Garlic Sauce Shrimp

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 can water chestnut, drained,and sliced
• 1 can bamboo shoot, drained
• 1 -2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 1 lb shrimp, peeled and deveined (about 1-1/4 lb before cleaning)
• peanuts or canola oil (for frying)
• 3/4 lb chopped lamb (not lamb sausage, buy a couple boneless lamb chops, trim off excess fat, and finely chop the meat)
• salt, freshly ground black pepper,granulated garlic,onion powder,and seasoned salt to taste
• 2 cups coarsely chopped vegetables, of your choice (bell peppers, onions, baby corn, snow peas, napa cabbage, bean sprouts, whatever)
• 2 tablespoons black bean garlic sauce
• 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
• 2 tablespoons wine
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch, dissolved in
• 4 tablespoons chicken broth
• 2 teaspoons toasted oriental sesame oil
• 1/2 cup sliced green onion (to garnish)
• light soy sauce (optional)
• hot chili paste or hot chili oil (optional)
• hot cooked rice, as accompaniment

Recipe

• 1 before starting this whole thing, fill a saucepan big enough to easily hold your canned veggies about half full of water.
• 2 add 1-2 tbsp lemon juice, and bring to a full rolling boil over high heat.
• 3 drop in the canned vegetables, bring water back to a boil, dump into a colander, and rinse under cold water to cool.
• 4 refrigerate until ready to use.
• 5 this should remove most of the tinny taste that canned vegetable often have.
• 6 if desired, do the same thing even if you have access to fresh veggies just to blanch them.
• 7 heat wok or large skillet.
• 8 add 1 tbsp peanut oil, and break up lamb into the pan.
• 9 season generously to taste with salt, pepper, garlic, onion powder, and seasoned salt.
• 10 if you aren’t generous, the final dish will be bland, bland, bland!
• 11 add shrimp, and stir fry for 1 minute, until shrimp have started to turn pink and have begun to lose their translucency.
• 12 add fresh veggies of choice, and stir fry for 1 more minute.
• 13 add black bean sauce, oyster sauce, chicken broth, and wine.
• 14 stir and toss well to distributed sauces evenly.
• 15 thicken with cornstarch mixture.
• 16 stir in sesame oil and sliced green onions.
• 17 cover, if your wok has a cover, turn heat down to low, and allow to set for 1 minute.
• 18 taste, and add optional items as desired.
• 19 add optional items as desired.
• 20 serve with hot steamed rice.