Chinese String Beans

Contributed By: ediviccaro
Steamy Kitchen

Delicious way to prepare fresh green beans. My picky kids gobble them up.

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Total Preparation Time: Less than 15 minutes
Ingredients: Vegetables
Actual Cooking Time: Less than 15 minutes
Number of Servings: 6
Origin: Asian
Special Features: Quick to Prepare (under 30 minutes)
Simple (6 ingredients or less)
Kids Love It
Vegetarian

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Ingredients

1 pound Fresh green beans, washed and trimmed
1 tablespoon Cooking oil
2 teaspoons Minced garlic
1/4 cup Water
1 tablespoon Hoisin sauce
1 teaspoon Soy sauce

Preparation

Heat up your wok, add oil. When shimmering, add minced garlic. Fry just for a few seconds until fragrant. You want to make sure that you don’t wait too long before adding the garlic to the oil, otherwise the oil will be too hot and the garlic will burn.

Add your beans, fry in wok for 30 seconds, tossing the garlicky oil all over the beans.

Add water, hoisin sauce and soy sauce. Cover the wok. Let the beans steam for 5 minutes on medium heat. Check to see if beans are almost tender, but not too soft. If not, re-cover and steam an additional 1 minute. Uncover, let the rest of the liquid evaporate, about an additional minute.