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Posted on 12th Jul 2025

Green Beans With Chilli Hoisin

This vegetarian recipe for Stir-Fried Green Beans with Chilli Hoisin features in Jeremy’s first cookbook, ‘Chinese Unchopped’

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Time

20 mins mins

Servings

2 people people

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Ingredients

  • 250g fine green beans
  • ½ onion a small knob of ginger
  • 1 fresh bird’s-eye chilli
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil Chilli Hoisin
  • 1 teaspoon Chiu Chow chilli oil
  • 1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
  • 1 tablespoon Shaoxing rice wine
  • a dash of dark soy sauce

Method

• Top and tail the beans and drop them into a pan of boiling water. Blanch them for 2 minutes, then drain and cool under cold running water.

• Finely slice the onion and ginger. Dice the bird’s-eye chilli. Using the flat side of a knife or cleaver, smash the garlic cloves to release their flavour and remove the skin.

• Mix the chilli hoisin ingredients together in a small bowl or ramekin.

BUILD YOUR WOK CLOCK: place your finely sliced onion at 12 o’clock, then arrange the ginger, garlic, blanched green beans, chilli, chilli hoisin and sauce bowl clockwise around your plate.

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