Chinese Green Beans With Minced Pork Recipe
Quick and easy to make but packed full of flavour, you'll love this Chinese green bean and minced pork recipe.
Equipment
- 1 Wok
Ingredients
- 1 lb Green beans
- 3-4 cloves Garlic
- 1.5 tsp Minced garlic
- 190 g Lean ground pork
Sauce
- 1/2 Tbsp Light soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp Oyster sauce
- 1/2 tsp Dark soy sauce
- 1/2 Tbsp White granulated sugar
- 1/2 Tbsp Water
Ground pork marinade
- 1 tsp Light soy sauce
- 1 tsp White granulated sugar
- 1/2 tsp Black pepper
- 1 tsp Cooking wine
- 1 tsp Cornstarch
- 1 tsp Cooking oil
Instructions
- Start by preparing your green beans. Wash and rinse your green beans in cold water thoroughly and then snap the ends off with your fingers.
- In addition, by snapping off the ends of the green beans, you can remove the stems which aren't very pleasant to eat and are often left uneaten on plates. After snapping off the ends of the green beans, you'll want to snap the green beans in half as well if they are very long.
- Once this is done, set it aside and let it dry. Then add in all of your marinate ingredients into the ground pork, leaving the cornstarch second last to seal in all of the juices and retain the moisture and the cooking oil to prevent it from drying out.
- Now in another bowl, add in your all of your ingredients to make the sauce including your light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, and water. Mix everything well together and then set the sauce aside.
- In a wok, add in your cooking oil and let it heat up. When you think the oil is hot enough, place a pair of chopsticks or just one into the oil and see if the oil fizzles around the chopsticks. If it does, then that means the oil is hot enough.
- Now slowly add in your green beans to the oil, making sure that its completely dry otherwise you'll be running around the house screaming in pain while the hot oil splashes all over you. Let the green beans cook until you start to see them become wrinkled up and dry. This should take roughly about 3-3.5 minutes.
- Then remove the green beans from the hot oil and let it strain out all of the oil unless your looking at gaining some extra pounds.
- Empty and remove all of the cooking oil from the wok.
- Now heat up the wok again over medium heat, add in about a Tbsp of oil that you used to fry the green beans back into the wok, once the oil is hot enough, add in your marinated ground pork, flatten the ground pork on the wok and let it cook for about 30 seconds or so to develop a nice char on the ground pork, then flip the ground pork over and now add in your minced garlic and ginger to the wok.
- Stir-fry everything for an additional 30 seconds to 1 minute, making sure to break up the ground pork into smaller pieces then add back in your green beans to the wok and turn the heat up to medium-high.
- Stir-fry for an additional 30 seconds or so and add in your sauce.
- Mix everything well together for about 30 seconds and then add in your sesame oil to garnish the dish.
- Mix for an additional 10-15 seconds and then remove everything from the wok.