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Green Beans with Pork Sausage

fresh green beans with pork sausage with hot peppers
Course Main Course
Cuisine American, Chinese
Keyword green beans, sausage

Equipment

  • large pan or wok

Ingredients

  • 1 pound fresh slender string green beans
  • 1/2 poung ground pork or use bulk pork sausage
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil for sauté of fresh beans
  • 1 tbl garlic
  • 1 tsp ginger
  • 3 fresh scallions chopped
  • 4 oz shitake mushrooms
  • 1/2 pound ground pork sausage
  • 4 dried red chilies
  • 1 tbsp chili paste
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp rice wine
  • dash whte pepper, ground

Instructions

  • IN a large pan or wok, heat the oil over high. Fry the string beans until they start blistering. Remove the string beans and set aside till later.
    1 pound fresh slender string green beans, 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • In the same pan or wok, add the garlic, ginger, and scallions. Fry until fragrant. Add the mushrooms and the ground pork. Fry until the pork is mostly done.
    1 tbl garlic, 1 tsp ginger
  • Stir in the dried red chilies and chili paste.
    4 dried red chilies, 4 oz shitake mushrooms
  • Add the string beans back to the pan/wok. Toss to combine everything.
  • Add the soy sauce, rice wine and a dash of white pepper. Enjoy!
    2 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp rice wine, dash whte pepper, ground

Notes

an excellent main course using up those slender green beans from the garden. I had used Jimmy Dean sausage that comes in a tube instead of fresh ground pork for this dish