Name: Sichuan String Beans (Gan Pien Si Ji Dou)
Yield: Serves 2 as part of a multicourse meal
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 heaping tablespoon dried shrimp, rinsed and coarsely chopped; 8 oz (250 g) string beans/French beans; 2 cloves garlic, minced; ¼ teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon sugar; Oil, for deep-frying; 2 oz (50 g) ground pork; One ½ in (1.25 cm) piece fresh ginger, peeled and minced; 6 dried red finger-length chilies, deseeded and cut into halves; Pinch of salt; 1 teaspoon Chinese rice wine or sherry; ¼ teaspoon chicken bouillon powder; 1 tablespoon oil

Preparation info

Serves
2
as part of a multicourse meal

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Easy Chinese Recipes

By Bee Yinn Low

Published 2011

About

I absolutely love the texture of these deep-fried string beans, my must-order vegetable dish when I dine out at Chinese restaurants. The wrinkly string bean is the result of deep-frying the beans in hot oil, and then stir-frying with dried red chilies, dried shrimp, and ground pork. The taste structure is complex—aromatic, savory, with a tint of spiciness from the dried red chilies. This dish complements other meat and seafood dishes served at a traditional multicourse Chinese meal.<