Hot and spicy, this quick and simple recipe lifts green beans, now a supermarket staple, into a really special side-dish.
Green bean spicy stir-fry | |
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Servings: | Serves 4 |
Calories per serving: | 42 |
Ready in: | 10 minutes |
Prep. time: | 5 minutes |
Cook time: | 5 minutes |
Difficulty: | |
Recipe author: | Chef |
First published: | 31st October 2012 |
Best recipe reviewSimplicity is the key 4/5 Tasty and simple |
Ingredients
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- 1 tablespoon groundnut oil
- 4 fat Cloves of garlic, peeled and sliced
- 4 (or to taste) dried hot birds' eye chillies, lightly crushed in a mortar and pestle.
- 10 Sichaun peppercorns
- 450 g (1 lb) green beans, topped and tailed and cut into pieces
- * Don't buy the ready trimmed beans, they don't keep at all and dry out quickly
- 1 teaspoon light soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
Method
- In a pan of boiling water, blanch the beans for 3 minutes (or to taste). Drain and pat dry with a paper towel.
- Add the groundnut oil to a wok and heat the chilli peppers, peppercorns and garlic until the garlic just starts to colour.
- Tip in the blanched green beans and stir-fry for 2 minutes to coat with oil and warm through.
- Add the soy sauce and sesame oil, shimmy the wok a few times and serve.
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