How to prepare and cook Chinese Veal with cucumber and apples includeing a recipe for a Sweet and Sour Sauce.
Chinese Veal with Cucumber and Apples
This healthy, fast and easy to make veal recipe makes a great main course for a family meal or dinner party. This meal is ready in less than 30 minutes. This recipe serves 4.
Cooking Time: 10-20 mins.
Preparation time: 25 mins.
Main cooking utensils: 2 saucepans
For 4 people you need:
8-12oz fillet veal*
1 level tablespoon cornflour
seasoning
2oz butter
4oz button mushrooms
1 peeled cucumber
2 eating apples, cored
1 red pepper
1 green pepper
4oz cooked rice
Sweet and sour sauce:
1 level tablespoon cornflour
1 dessertspoon soy sauce
3 tablespoon vinegar
2 tablespoons sugar or honey
ΒΌ pint chicken stock
1. Toss cubed veal in seasoned cornflour and fry in butter
until golden, remove and keep warm.
2. Fry the mushrooms, diced cucumber, apple slices. Remove
core and seeds from red and green peppers, slice and fry. Return
the meat to the pan.
3. Cover and cook for 8-10 minutes or until meat is tender.
4. Stir in cooked rice and turn into serving dish.
5. Pour over sweet and sour sauce.
6. Sweet and sour sauce:
Mix ingredients together, add to pan, stirring gently, boil 2-3 minutes
until the sauce is transparent
To Serve: With ribbon noodles, boiled or fried rice.
To Vary: Add chopped spring onion to the sauce.
To Store: In a cool place, re-heat gently.
Note: Good button mushrooms do not need peeling - wash well - cut at intervals.
*These are thin slices cut from the leg of veal.
