Chinese Style Sauteed Green Beans - Fine Cooking

By Watty

Ingredients

• 1 TBS less sodium soy sauce
• 1 TBS honey
• 1 TBS unsalted butter
• 2 TBS evoo
• 12 oz green beans, trimmed
• 1 TBS minced garlic

Preparation

Step 1

Combined the soy sauce, honey, and 1 TBS water in a small dish and set near the stove. Set a shallow serving dish near the stove, too.

in a 10 inch straight sided saute pan, heat the butter with the olive oil over med-high heat. When the butter is melted, add the green beans and 1/2 TSP salt and toss with the tongs to coat well. Cook turning the beans occoasionally, until most are well browned, shrunken, and tender, 7 to 8 mins. ( the butter in the pan will have turned brown.)

Reduce the heat to low, add the garlic,and cook, stirring constantly with the heatproof rubber spatula, until the garlic is softened and fragrant, 15 to 20 seconds. Carefully add the soy mixture (you will need to scrape the honey into the pan.) Cook stirring, until the liquid reduces to a glazey consistency that coats the beans, 30 to 45 seconds.

Immediately transfer the beans to the serving dish, scraping the pan with the spatula to get all the garlicky sauce. Let sit for a few mins and then serve warm.