Stir Fried Green Beans
Stir fried green beans is a simple and delicious Chinese stir fry made with green beans, onion, ginger and garlic. Soy sauce and black pepper powder is added to this recipe to make it spicy and delicious.
Servings 2 People
Equipment
- Wok
Ingredients
- 15 green beans / French beans cut into 2-inch pieces
- 1 medium sized onion julienned
- 4 to 5 garlic pods peeled and sliced
- 1- inch ginger peeled and cut into julienned
- 3 tablespoon black pepper powder
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 tablespoon soya sauce
- 2 tablespoon cooking oil
- To taste salt
Instructions
- Take a saucepan or deep bottomed utensil and add 4 cups water. Let water boil. Blanch the green beans for 4 minutes. Then discard the water and keep the green beans aside.
- Take a small bowl and mix soy sauce and sugar.
- Heat a wok / non stick frying pan and oil.
- After oil gets heated, add chopped green beans, julienne onions, ginger and garlic and mix well. Leave it in frying pan for 1 minute.
- Stir again and then add soy sauce and sugar mixture. Mix well.
- Keep stirring continuously so that the green beans don’t burn for 2 minutes.
- Add black pepper powder and mix well.
- Add salt to taste and mix again.
- Serve hot.
Notes
- I have blanched the green beans before stir frying.
- If you want crispier green beans, then do not blanch.