Recipe - Tasty Green Beans With Soy Sauce Dressing

1 One half pound Green beans; trimmed at the
ends
3 tablespoon Soy sauce
1 teaspoon Sugar
1 tablespoon Oriental sesame oil
3 tablespoon Peanut or other vegetable
oil
6 Cloves garlic; peeled and
chopped
1 Dried hot red chili;
crumbled (I just used a
couple shakes of crushed
red pepper)
Salt

This is from _Madhur Jaffrey's Cookbook_, which I've had about 10 years.
Don't know it it's still in print, but it has some really delicious and
easy stuff in it. Made these green beans for dinner with some teriyaki
chicken breasts and plain rice.

Bring a large pot of water to a rolling boil. Drop in the beans and cook
rapidly for 4 to 5 minutes or until just crisptender. Drain, and if not
serving very soon, rinse under cold water. Leave to drain in a colander.

Mix together the soy sauce, sugar and sesame oil. Set aside.

Put a wok or a large castiron frying pan to heat over a mediumhigh flame.
When hot, put in the peanut oil. It should heat up in seconds. Now put in
the garlic. Stir once or twice. Put in the red chili. Stir once and put in
the drained green beans. Stir them around until a few are lightly scorched.
Pour in the soy sauce mixture. Continue to stir and fry until most of the
sauce is absorbed. Turn the heat down and taste for salt; you might want to
add a little but more. (I didn't. Soy sauce is salty enough!) Stir to mix
and serve.

Posted to EATL Digest by Kathy Rogers kathyrogers@EARTHLINK.NET on Sep
11, 1997