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Pork with Green Beans

Pork with green beans — a little different, quick, and delicious. This Chinese-style pork with green beans is very easy to make. Its flavor rests on soy sauce and is rounded out with sesame seeds. Serve it as a main course at lunch — you get the meat and the vegetable side all in one, which is convenient, tasty, and good for you. If I made it again, I'd bump up the beans to about two-thirds of the mix.

naniki

Recipe author

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Pork

250

Green beans

200

Onion

Soy sauce

Sesame seeds

Sunflower oil

Salt

Ground pepper blend

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 26 % 8 g

Fats 48 % 15 g

Carbohydrates 26 % 8 g

179 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 35 min

Step 1:

This pork-with-green-beans dish is built around pork; it's best to use lean cuts — here I used a tenderloin medallion. You'll also need green beans, fresh or frozen. Soy sauce and sesame seeds are a must, since this dish comes from Chinese cooking, and you'll also want onion, sunflower oil, and seasonings to taste.
Step 2:

In hot oil, sauté the onion, cut into half-rings or smaller, until translucent.
Step 3:

Trim all the fat off the pork, using only the lean meat, and cut it into thin strips or small batons. Add it to the onion in the pan. Fry for 15 to 20 minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly; I kept it covered.
Step 4:

Meanwhile, deal with the beans. They can be fresh or frozen — frozen is actually easier, since they're already trimmed and cut into even pieces; you just need to blanch them briefly, and you don't even have to thaw them first. Drop the frozen beans into boiling water, cook for about 8 minutes, then immediately rinse under cold running water so they keep their bright green color. The beans can also be yellow — the choice is yours.
Step 5:

When the meat is nearly done, pour in the soy sauce and add pepper. Let it simmer in the sauce for about 5 minutes. Sprinkle the sesame seeds over the meat and stir well so they get everywhere.
Step 6:

Drain the beans in a colander, rinse them with cold water, let them drain, and add them to the pan with the meat and sesame.
Step 7:

Mix well and serve.

Pork with green beans is a dish with Asian roots. Interestingly, the original used onion but no garlic — usually it's the other way around in Chinese cooking — so if you'd like to make it with garlic, that would be no stretch at all.