This recipe has become a regular at our dinner table. It's easy -- you can easily put it together in under 30 minutes, in less time than it takes for the rice to cook -- and the flavors are a winner with all my family. The recipe is modified from Cooking Light.
The Sesame Green Beans are a recipe I have been making for years. I first ate them at my friend Gina's house and all my kids eat them. They are a great side with the Mongolian Beef and steamed white rice.
Mongolian Beef
serves 4-6
2 T lower-sodium soy sauce
1 t sugar
1 t cornstarch
2 t dry sherry
2 t hoisin sauce
1 t rice vinegar
1 t chile paste with garlic (I use Sriracha)
1/4 t salt
2 T vegetable or peanut oil
1 T minced peeled fresh ginger
1 T minced fresh garlic
1 pound sirloin steak, thinly sliced across the grain
8 medium green onions, cut into 2-inch pieces
Combine first 8 ingredients, stirring until smooth.
Heat peanut oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high
heat. Add minced ginger, minced garlic, and beef; sauté for 2 minutes or until
beef is browned. Add green onion pieces; sauté 30 seconds. Add soy sauce
mixture; cook 1 minute or until thickened, stirring constantly.
Serve over white or brown rice.
Sesame Green Beans
1 pound green beans, ends trimmed and washed
1 T. vegetable oil
1 t. sesame oil
1 t. sesame seeds
1/2 t crushed red pepper
salt to taste
Cook green beans in hot water until just tender (or if you
are using a rice
cooker with a veggie basket use that - that's what I do). Drain and set aside until serving time.
Just a few moments before serving time, heat vegetable oil
in a skillet. Add beans and cook on high heat for several minutes tossing a few
times. Add sesame seeds and crushed red pepper. Drizzle with sesame oil and
salt to taste.
4 comments:
This recipe sounds like something I'd love to try, but I always get confused when I see "Rice Vinegar" as an ingredient as it seems that the store has a sweetened and unsweetened version. Can I presume you mean the unsweetened type? Thanks for your help!
Janice
Janice,
the rice vinegar I have is Roland brand seasoned rice vinegar. It has crushed red pepper in it and brown sugar is the last ingredient!
Sounds great! Thanks so much for the follow-up!!! Can't wait to try it!
This looks/sounds great! It's now on our menu to try next week.
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