Chinese Pickled Beets - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 can beets
2/3 Tbsp. cornstarch
8 whole cloves
1 Tbsp. cooking oil
1/3 tsp. vanilla
1/3 c. sugar
1/3 c. vinegar
1 Tbsp. ketchup
dash of salt
1/2 c. beet juice

Preparation

Put sugar and cornstarch in large shallow pan.
Stir, mixing well.
Add vinegar, cloves, ketchup, oil, salt and vanilla.
Stir again well.
Add beet juice from can.
Cut beets into bite size and put into pan.
Cook over medium fire 3 minutes, stirring constantly until it thickens.
Serve over rice.