The one exception to that rule were these delicious french beans at one of my favourite restaurants, Written on Tea. At my friend Lakshmi's birthday dinner, I tried this dish, and I was hooked. I wanted to order it the next time I was there, but the person I was with had no interest in ordering the dish. A skeptic. Like me, before I was given the opportunity to have these delicious little things!!
So anyway, I decided to try out this recipe I found on Google:
Ingredients
- 200g green beans
- 150g minced pork
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 mini thumb sized ginger
- 2 dried chili (well, really depending on how spicy you want it); and
- 1 teaspoon of chili flakes (as above - depends on how spicy you want it).
- Dark soy sauce
- Regular (light) soy sauce
- Sugar
- Sesame seed oil
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| This wasn't enough, btw - I added more beans after |
- Fry the beans in oil until they become wrinkly (about 2 mins) - as for me, I left it in there for a tad longer than I needed to, so the beans might have been overcooked. They still tasted good though!
- Dry the beans on some paper towels.
- Leave a tablespoon of oil in the wok and add the chili, the garlic and the ginger.
- Add the pork and fry until all the pork is cooked through.
- Add the beans and sauce ingredients and cook for about a minute.
And enjoy!!!
I think the taste was almost there. I daresay that the Written on Tea version was better but hey, for a first go, it was not bad at all. And for a fraction of the price, I would do it again for sure! :)
