Szechuan Dry Fried Green Beans

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 tablespoons peanut oil
• 3/4 lb stringed green beans, with ends snapped off and rinsed and dried
• 1/2 tablespoon dried shrimp, soaked and minced
• 3 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
• 1 inch piece gingerroot, peeled and minced
• 3 tablespoons preserved radish, rinsed and minced (optional)
• 1/4 lb ground lamb, minced
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 2 drops sesame oil

Recipe

• 1 heat wok on medium high heat until it smokes.
• 2 add peanut oil, and heat until it is nearly smoking.
• 3 drop in green beansâ??make sure they are dry!
• 4 stir and fry until the beans dry out, shrivel slightly and begin to char to a dark brown in spots.
• 5 remove when they are quite wrinkled and somewhat charred, and drain on paper towels.
• 6 crank heat up to high and add all minced seasonings except lamb.
• 7 stir and fry thirty seconds until very fragrant.
• 8 add minced lamb, and stir with a chopping motion with the wok shovel to break it apart.
• 9 cook this way until almost all of the pink is goneâ??put beans back into wok.
• 10 stir and fry for ten seconds to blend, then add soy sauce and continue stir frying until all pink is gone.
• 11 remove from heat, stir in sesame oil.