BEEF, FUJI FRUIT AND CUCUMBER

Ingredients:
500 gms fillet steak
3 small cucumbers
1 tsp salt
pinch chilli powder
2 Tbl peanut oil
Tbl soy sauce
4 Fuji fruit (non-astringent persimmons)
1 Tbl sesame oil
1 tsp sugar
2 cloves crushed garlic
¼ cup sesame seeds, toasted in dry pan

Method:
Cut the steak into thin strips. Mix garlic, sugar, chilli powder, salt, soy sauce and sesame oil and combine with meat. Leave to stand for about 1 hour in refrigerator.

Cut cucumbers lengthwise, remove seeds and cut into slices. De-seed Fuji Fruit and dice into fine segments.

Heat oil and stir-fry steak on high for apout 3 minutes. Stir in fruit and reduce heat. Cook until cucumber and Fuji Fruit are hot, but not soft. Serve sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds. Serves 6.

Donna Dixon,
Sunshine Coast Sub-Tropical Fruits Assoc. News, May, 1986

DATE: May 1987

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