Name: Stir-Fried Green Beans (淸炒四季豆)
Yield: This will serve 3 to 4 as a vegetable dish.
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: ¼ cup chicken stock or water; 2 teaspoons sesame oil (optional); 2 quarter-sized slices peeled ginger; 2 medium cloves garlic, lightly smashed and peeled; 2 tablespoons oil; 1 to 1½ teaspoons salt, to taste; 1 pound fresh green beans

Preparation info

This will serve
3 to 4
as a vegetable dish.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Key to Chinese Cooking

By Irene Kuo

Published 1977

About

These brilliantly green beans are firm but tender and subtly aromatic of garlic. There is no ginger taste. The piece of ginger is not meant to season; it is used to eliminate the faint raw taste of grass often found with green beans when they are just lightly cooked and seasoned.

Ingredients

2 medium cloves garlic, lightly smashed and peeled
2 quarter-sized slices peeled ginger
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Method

Preparations

Smash the garlic sharply with the flat of a cleaver or a wide, heavy knife; then slip off the peel. You’ll find that this simple action makes peeling garlic very simple.

From a knob of ginger, slice off 2 pieces the size of an American quarter, then trim off the peel. P