Name: Stir-Fried Pork with Snake Beans
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons palm sugar; 300 g minced belly pork; 2 tablespoons fish sauce; 150 g snake beans; 1 teaspoon Thai shrimp paste, wrapped in foil and grilled until fragrant; 6 tablespoons vegetable oil; 2 teaspoons dried shrimp; ½ teaspoon white peppercorns; 1 teaspoon scraped, chopped coriander root; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon grated kaffir lime zest; 4 garlic cloves, chopped; 5 red eschalots, chopped; 1 teaspoon chopped heart of lemon grass; 1 teaspoon chopped galangal; 3 dried red chillies, chopped

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Asian

By Neil Perry

Published 2000

About

This is a terrific Thai-style stir-fry, quite similar to the classic Chinese dish of dry-fried beans, but made spicier by the addition of a spice paste. It is easy to add layers of flavour to dishes such as this, so take some of the stir-fries you may already cook and add a simple paste. Taste the difference? soon you will be seduced by spice!