Chinese Pepper Steak - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. round steak
1 Tbsp. diet margarine
2 Tbsp. finely chopped onion
1 clove garlic, crushed
2 large green peppers
1/2 c. celery, diagonally sliced
1/2 c. beef consomme
salt and pepper
2 Tbsp. chopped pimento
2 tsp. cornstarch
3 Tbsp. water
1 Tbsp. soy sauce

Preparation

Trim the meat of all fat and cut into strips.
Chop onion, garlic and pimento.
Cut green peppers into strips.
Place diet margarine in a nonstick skillet and heat it over a low heat.
Add the strips of beef and brown on both sides.
Add onion, garlic, green peppers and celery.
Add consomme.
Season the whole mixture with salt and pepper.
Cover; simmer 20 minutes.
Do not boil. Add pimento.
Thicken with cornstarch mixture.
Cover; simmer the addition for 5 minutes.
Makes 4 servings (1001.4 calories in whole recipe; 250.4 each serving).