Yan-Kit So

Stir-fried Beans and Straw Mushrooms

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    with 2 Other Dishes
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
top 1000Classic Food of China
Classic Food of China

By Yan-Kit So

Published 1992

  • About

A Good combination of the slippery straw mushrooms, which inevitably come in a can, and green beans. Sugar snaps or other larger beans can also be used as long as, when you blanch them, you make sure they are neither underdone nor overcooked.

Ingredients

  • 225 g (8 oz) fine beans or French beans or sugar snaps
  • 1 can

Method

  1. Top and tail the beans. Rinse.
  2. Halve the straw mushrooms so that they will absorb the seasoning more easily, although you can leave them whole if you wish.
  3. Blanch the beans. Half fill a wok with water and bring it to the boil. Add 5 ml (