Recipe for Chinese beef stir fry

Ingredients

• 3 tsp cornflour
• 2 tbsp + 1/3 cup water, separated
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce
• 2 tbsp Chinese cooking wine OR Mirin
• 1 tsp white sugar
• 1/2 tsp sesame oil (optional)
• Dash of black pepper
• 2 tbsp peanut oil
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 200g beef, good quality, thinly sliced
• 1/2 small onion, sliced (yellow, brown or white)
• 1/2 red pepper, sliced
• 1 small carrot, halved lengthwise and sliced thinly on the diagonal
• 3 baby pak choy, quartered lengthwise
• 2 shallots, cut into 3cm pieces