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Quick-fried French (green) beans in onion and garlic sauce

Yields1 Serving

Source: The Love of Chinese Cooking: Kenneth Lo
Region: China
Rating: 10

 ⅔ cup green beans
 ½ chicken stock cube
 8 cups hot clear broth
 4 cloves garlic
 2 scallions
 3 tbsp vegetable oil
 1 ½ tbsp butter
 1 tsp salt
 1 tsp sugar
 1 tbsp soy sauce
 1 tbsp dry sherry
1

Top and tail the beans. Dissolve the stock cube in the broth. Crush the garlic and cut the spring onions (scallions) into thin rounds.

2

Heat the broth in a large saucepan. Add the beans and simmer until nearly all the liquid has evaporated, turning them constantly. Heat the oil and fat in a large frying-pan over moderate heat. Add the garlic, salt and spring onions (scallions). Stir and turn them in the hot fat for 1/2 minute. Add the beans and stir and turn them in the fat until they are well coated. Sprinkle with soya sauce, sugar, and sherry. Stir-fry for a further 1 minute.

3

Turn on to a warmed dish. This is an excellent dish to accompany rice and meat.