These stir-fried green beans are inspired by spicy Szechuan green beans, one of our favorite Chinese dishes. This easy green bean recipe comes together in 15-minutes using one key ingredient that you need to get for your pantry.
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Chinese
Keyword Chili Crisp, Green Beans, Quick & Easy
Prep Time 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time 10 minutesminutes
Total Time 15 minutesminutes
Servings 4
Ingredients
1lbfresh green beanstrimmed
½tbspneutral oillike canola or vegetable oil
1 ½tbspchili crisp
Instructions
Heat your wok over high heat until the wok starts smoking slightly. Add the oil.
Stir-fry the green beans over high heat. Stir almost constantly and cook for about 10-minutes or until the green beans are crisp tender and nicely charred.
Remove the green beans from the heat and add the chili crisp. Toss to coat the green beans in the chili crisp. Serve.
Notes
This will serve four as a side dish, but I think it's a great vegetarian main course simply served with rice. In this case, two people will easily devour a pound of green beans.