Four-Season Beans

Sei Guai Dau

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Chinese Banquet Cookbook

By Eileen Yin-Fei Lo

Published 1985

  • About

We Chinese call these four-season beans simply because green string beans are available to us throughout the year.

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons fresh pork, cut into ⅛-inch dice

Method

  1. Marinate pork for 30 minutes.
  2. Heat a wok over high heat for 40 seconds. Add peanut oil. When a wisp of white smoke appears, lower beans into oil with a Chinese strainer and oil-blanch for 2 minutes or until beans soften (see directions for oil-blanching). Remove with a strainer and drain over a bowl.
  3. Pour off oil fro