This is our favorite way of eating string beans. It is just a quick stir-fry with shrimps. Actually this is one of Carlos favorite dish. Sometime I will cook it with dried shrimps and sambal but since Carlos is eating I can’t do that. Just like how they cook it in the restaurant I like the string beans to be crunchy and not overcook. I will usually stir-fry them for a few minutes and dish them out before cooking the rest of the ingredients. This way the string beans will retain its crunch.
Ingredients:
Recipe Source: My Kitchen Snippets
1/2 pound of string beans – removes both ends and cut into 2” length
10 large shrimps – peel and deveined
1 carrot – julienned
2 cloves garlic - chopped
1 shallot – sliced thinly
3 tbsp of chopped pickle radish/chye poh
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
Dash of pepper
1. Heat up the wok and add in 2 tbsp of olive oil. Stir-fry the string beans for 3 minutes. Dish out and set it aside.
2. In the same wok, add in a tbsp of olive oil, stir fry garlic, shallots until lightly brown and fragrant. Add carrot, pickle radish and shrimps. Continue to stir-fry for 2 minutes.
3. Add in the string beans and all the seasonings. Drizzle in 2 tbsp of water. Continue to stir fry for another minute and dish out.
4. Serve with warm rice.
Oh I love this too. Its one of my favourite that I used to cook quite often but slightly different from yours. I added szechuan pickled vege (ja choy) but not pickle radish, and I didn't add shrimps. I should try out yours tomorrow...hehe!
ReplyDeleteLook delicious, gloria
ReplyDeleteI love this home cooked dish. The string beans must be very crunchy, extra rice please :))
ReplyDeleteOne of our favourites too.String beans very versatile..no matter how you cooked it, they will always turned out great.
ReplyDeleteThe fact tghat this recipe can be changed to suit a variety of palates is indeed brilliant.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing and please feel free to link you recipes to our Simply Delish post on Saturday.
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I love the the natural sweetness of the string beans and what more with the shrimps...yummy !
ReplyDeleteI cook this almost once a week! I add dried shrimp instead of chay po. But I just bought some chay Po the other day to make chwee kueh, maybe can use some to cook your method, must be yum!
ReplyDeletethis is also one common dish that i cook, love how simple it is!
ReplyDeleteReese, the next time I cook this I will try your style using Ja Choy.
ReplyDeleteGloria, thanks.
Ann, yes they are :)
Shereen, I will buy this string beans every week. I use it in stir-fry, curry, fried rice etc..
KB, thanks.
Elin, this is Carlos fav vegetable dish :)
Bee Bee, me too. I ran out of dried shrimp so I used prawns instead.
Lena, yea I saw you post string beans the other day :)
I've cooked this twice already... a new favorite at home! Thank you so much for sharing simple, healthy and yummy recipes.
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