Fried Green Beans

I never know this recipe until one cousin of mine visited us home and she was from the north to where most veggies grow. She bought a lot of green beans and shared it with us and that is the time I tasted fried green beans when she introduced it to us.

Most recipes I know of green beans was including it in beef stew. Aside from sautéed green beans of course, I never thought that it can also be fried. It wasn’t bad at all since I do favor salty flavored dish. It was just so easy to prepare, just remove the strings from the side of that green beans when you’re removing both ends and tips of the veggie and washing it well with water.

Fried Green Beans with soya sauce



Put salt into it and presto, just put it in a hot pan with oil and fry it. But it doesn’t end there; you need to put soy sauce for finishing touches, not immediately okay. You need to fry your green beans first before you put the soya sauce. You may notice that your green beans turned into darker brown color that is the signal that you can now add the soya sauce.

The taste is fantastic, the smell is magnificent but be careful on frying


It is not easy to fry green beans. It splatters a lot so you need to be careful. Since your green beans is wet and with salt, it has the tendency to splatter hot oil into your skin so be ready with a pan cover or lid to protect you. Just put the flame into medium heat and stir it well so that it will be proportion when you fry the green beans.

You don’t need to cut your green beans into portions when frying. Just cut the tips of the veggie and that’s it. You can add onions to this if you want to taste it similarly to bistek, a local Philippine dish. Fried green beans are good side dish. If you want to experiment and add a twist, you may use butter instead of vegetable oil when frying it. But I guess butter and soya can have two different taste so I still suggest on using vegetable oil for this recipe.

Green Beans with Beef

I haven’t tried to post any recipe using this green veggie so I decided to buy some green beans or what others know as French beans. During my childhood days, my mom used to prepare this veggie dish which she also sauté beef to balance the meal. Well now that I am married and I am the one who personally prepare our food I like to prepare healthy foods so veggie is always a part for my list. Here is the instruction on how to cook Green Beans with Beef.

The consistency of your green beans should be like this, not overcooked




Ingredients:
Green beans/ French beans (chopped into ½ inch)
Beef ¼ kilo (cut into strips or smaller cubes)
1 medium onion (chopped)
2 cloves of garlic (chopped)
Salt
Soya sauce
Ground black pepper
Water
1 green chili
oil


Preparation / Methods on how to cook Green beans with beef:

Green beans with beef, not too dry, not that saucy




Step 1: On a pan put the beef that was cut into smaller cubes or strips. Put ½ teacup of water and sprinkle some salt. Let the water dry out first before you put oil to fry it.

Step 2: Fry the beef meat for 3 minutes and then put garlic till it gets light brown. Once it is done, you can now add the onions and green chili. Sauté the onions till it get light brown in color and put two tbsp. of soya sauce.

Step 3: Next is to put the green beans and put ample amount of water. Cook the green beans for 3-5minutes till it gets soft but not overcooked. Sprinkle some salt and ground black pepper to taste. This recipe is also good to match any dried fish.

Beef Stew (Nilagang Baka)

I am not a fan of beef stew since I really don’t like how it gets my mouth greasy all over whenever the dish gets cold. I just wanted it hot when served as I sip the beefy goodness of the soup. Sometimes, you won’t be able to tell the beef that you bought was soft or as hard as steel that will take you time to boil it. Better yet most housewives use pressure cooker on tenderizing their beef.

Do not over cook your veggie when you cook Beef Stew



Although I cannot deny the fact that it is easy to cook if the beef meat is just young and soft to chew. It does not need too much ingredients. You can use green beans, cabbage and potatoes in it. But this time, I only have green or French beans and potatoes. I will share to you how to cook and prepare Beef stew:
Ingredients:
Beef meat (1/2 kilo) cut into big cubes
1 Medium size onion (cut into 4)
1 Beef bouillon cube
1 lady finger chili
Green beans (remove both ends, don’t cut in half)
1 big potato (cut into quarter)
Water
Salt / fish sauce (for seasoning)
Black ground pepper

Preparations/ Methods on how to cook Beef Stew (Nilagang Baka)

Beefy soup goodness!


Step 1: Boil the beef meat for 30 minutes or more (just check if the beef is soft and tender). Include some salt and onion while boiling.

Step 2: If the beef meat is tender and not rubbery, you can now put the beef bouillon cube, lady finger chili and potatoes and just check the water. If it’s not enough, add some more water and season it with salt or you can use fish sauce into this dish. Don’t worry about the amount of water you use, this is a soup, it’s okay for your beef meat to swim.

Step 3: If the potato is half done, you can now put the green beans and put some ground black pepper into it. Once your veggies are all done, you can now turn the flame off. Serve this dish hot.