Dry Fried Green Beans (with/without pork)

Submitted by: Yu Mao

Ingredients: 

• 2 table/regular spoon-ish Vegetable Oil or edible oil of any kind.
• 1 table/regular spoon-ish Cooking wine
• 2 table/regular spoon-ish soy sauce (important)
• 1 table/regular spoon-ish sugar (important)
• A Pinch of salt
• 1 Pound of green beans
• ¼ pound of ground pork – if you’re vegetarian or vegan, you don’t need to add pork
• A clove of garlic, minced/ or minced garlic
• 3 dried chili pepper (optional)

Instructions:

1. Heat the oil in a non-stick skillet over medium high.
2. Put garlics in the pan till it sizzles.
3. Spread the ground pork in the pan, add cooking wine and salt till it’s golden,
4. Spread well-drained beans (you might need apron for this one if the beans are not well-drained) in the pan.
5. Flip the beans every now and then and add chili pepper, soy sauce and sugar until the surface is mostly brown.
6. Serve hot on top of rice as a side

Note:

1. Do not add water, if it looks very dry, add a little more soy sauce. It won’t burn easily because of the oil from pork or the vegetable oil. Green bean doesn’t absorb oil well.
2. Add soy sauce the last or when you see the green beans are a little brown, definitely before you add chili pepper.
3. You can replace Green beans with Tofu, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Cabbage or Snow Pea, by doing so, you will turn the dish into Dry Pan Fried Tofu/Cauliflower/Broccoli/Cabbage/Snow Pea.