Green Beans in Pungent Sauce

Preparation info
  • Serves

    2–4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Ken Hom's Vegetarian Cookery

By Ken Hom

Published 1995

  • About

I often enjoyed this easy-to-make homely dish as a child. Fresh green beans are a nutritious and inexpensive vegetable and lend themselves to spices and seasonings that complement their delicate flavour. In this recipe, the pungent spiciness of fermented chilli beancurd turns the vegetable into something quite special. You will find fermented beancurd at Chinese grocers; you may choose from various types, ranging from mild to quite spicy. In using so lively a spice as chilli beancurd, remem