Sichuan Dry-Fried Green Beans

Name: Sichuan Dry-Fried Green Beans (Gan Bian Si Ji Dou)
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 1½ teaspoons sesame oil; 3 tablespoons ya cai (Sichuan pickled vegetable), finely chopped; 1 tablespoon soy sauce; 1 pound green beans, topped, tailed, and cut into 2-inch pieces; 6 tablespoons any flavorless cooking oil; 1 tablespoon rice wine for cooking; ¼ pound ground pork or ½ cup dried shrimp, soaked for 2 hours in hot water, then finely chopped; ¼ pound ground pork or ½ cup dried shrimp, soaked for 2 hours in hot water, then finely chopped; ¼ pound ground pork or ½ cup dried shrimp, soaked for 2 hours in hot water, then finely chopped

Gan Bian Si Ji Dou

Preparation info

Serves
6
as a side dish or one of several dishes in a Chinese-style meal

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Canon of Vegetables

By Raymond Sokolov

Published 2007

About

This simple but time-consuming dish is a classic of the cuisine of Sichuan, but it is not torridly seasoned with chilies or Sichuan peppercorns. This does not make it atypical. In fact it illustrates one of the fifty-six cooking methods of the Sichuanese canon listed in the standard Sichuan culinary encyclopedia and quoted in full in Fuchsia Dunlop’s Land of Plenty (2001), itself now the standard work on the subject in English. Can bian, explains Ms. Dunlop, i

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Asia
China
Sichuan
Side dish

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