I am sure most among us do enjoy having Chinese food especially while eating out.Chinese Food in India is ubiquitous, be it small road side stalls selling "chow mien" and "manchurian" or up market establishments serving variety of mouth watering prawn or seafood dishes.It is only after coming to China and tasting the different varieties of Chinese food I understood that Indianized version of Chinese food is completely different from the Authentic Chinese cuisine (probably because Chinese dishes in India is customized for the Indian palate).
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Whenever we visit a chinese restaurant in Shanghai we make a point to always order a plate of Fried String Beans specially Sichuan style.There is a veg and a non veg version of fried beans,here is the veg version .You can enjoy the authentic Chinese flavor at home with this simple dish.Fried string beans is a excellent appetizer. Sichuan Pepper (called Tirphal in India used in some Konkani dishes) is an essential ingredient in many chinese food specially in Sichuan cuisine.This is a beautiful ingredient with a curious taste; when the whole pepper is used it causes a funny tingling numbness in the mouth and the powdered pepper gives you the flavor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_pepper )
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Prep time : 10 mins
Cooking time : 10 mins
Serves : 2
Ingredients:
- 250 gm Fresh green beans
- 1 tsp Cooking Wine
- 1tsp Sesame Oil
- 1 tsp Soya Sauce
- 6 dry Red Chilies
- 1 tsp Sichuan Pepper (freshly ground)
- Salt
- Oil for deep frying
Step by step illustration:
Rinse and cut the ends of the string beans.
Deep fry the string beans until it gets a slightly wrinkly texture.
Drain and keep them on paper towel to remove extraStir fry garlic and dry red chilies on medium heat.
Mix cooking wine, sesame oil and soya sauce in a bowl.
Add string beans to the above mixture along with sichuan pepper and salt .
Rinse and cut the ends of the
string beans.
Note:
While frying high heat is to be used and minimum liquid and this technique is called dry-frying which is used to prepare a lot of different Chinese dishes.
If at all sichuan pepper and cooking wine is not available you can use black pepper and white wine respectively. Black pepper wont give you the exact flavor of the dish, white wine is a good replacement of cooking wine.
It was awesome. Especially the real taste and aroma of Sichuan Pepper. i add little chilli oil to it.
ReplyDeleteThank you dear...Nice to hear you tried out the recipe with an extra touch of Chilli oil..
Deletesounds yummmmmm..nd even looking so mouthwatering......m definitely gona hit ma kitchen fr this...LUV
DeleteThanks a lot Minali di.. Do let me know how it turns out !!!
DeleteI am lucky to taste this authentic dish she prepared at home. It was so tasty that had a lot of it even though it was very hot. Keep it up your cooking skill.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much mashi for your kind words! Pleasure was all mine. See you soon
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