RECOVERED RECIPE (Charred Asian Green Beans, originally posted August 22, 2024) –
As many of you know, I lost the prior eleven months of melinmac cooks posts in September 2024, and I’m now trying to rebuild what I’ve lost. This is one of those posts. Luckily I saved all of the pictures on my hard drive, but the content of the lost posts, including recipes, are not recoverable. At this point I’m not trying to recreate anything more than the recipes with pictures. Hopefully I’ll build it all back over time. Thanks for being here!
Charred Asian Green Beans
Ingredients
- 1 pound thin green beans
- 3 cloves garlic
SAUCE
- 2 T oyster sauce (gluten-free)
- 2 T tamari
- 1 T brown sugar
- 2 T sesame oil
- ¼ t red pepper flakes
Instructions
- Prep the veg – Destem and trim the green beans, as necessary. Smash the garlic.
- Mix the sauce – Add the oyster sauce, tamari, brown sugar, sesame oil, and red pepper to a small bowl. Whisk to combine.
- Sauté the veg – Add a small amount of olive oil to a hot pan. Add the green beans and smashed garlic, and cook for about 5 minutes or until the beans are crisp-tender. Don't stir any more often than you need to – you want a slight char, but you don't want to scorch the beans.
- Finish – Add the sauce to the pan, and stir to coat the beans with the sauce. Cook for about 2 minutes more, the remove from the heat.
