Recipe - Hot And Hearty Heroes

3 tablespoon Olive oil
1 pound String beans; ends trimmed,
cut into halves
1 teaspoon Ground ginger
4 lg Cloves garlic; minced very
finely (up to 5)
1 teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon Hot sauce; (to taste) (up to
3)
One half cup Toasted pine nuts

Heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add your string beans
and saute until they look very green and their skin looks a bit blistered,
about 510 minutes. Dust the ground ginger over the string beans, stir, and
cover the pan to steam them for another 510 minutes, or until tender but
firm. Add finely minced garlic, salt, and hot sauce, stirring and raise the
heat to mediumhigh. Cook briefly, about 2 or 3 minutes, just until hot
sauce is absorbed and garlic is aromatic but no longer seems too pungent.
Add toasted pine nuts and remove from heat. Serve over rice or on their
own.

Be sure to mince the garlic superfine, or else it won't coat and cling to
the beans and it'll take too long to cook the garlic. And if it seems like
you're using too much garlic you're using just enough.

Posted to KitMailbox Digest by muckerheide@mediaone.net on Dec 06, 1997