Stir-fry Beans With Spicy Beef Mince
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Stir-fry Beans With Spicy Beef Mince
Ingredients
2 tablespoons Red Island olive oil
600g green beans, trimmed
½ brown onion, diced
2 teaspoons sesame oil
500g Graze grass fed beef mince
1/3 cup Oyster sauce
2 teaspoons corn flour
1 tablespoon roasted white sesame seeds to garnish
Chili-garlic paste
6 long red chilies
4 cloves garlic
2cm piece ginger, chopped
Juice of 1 lime
2 tablespoons honey
Sea salt to taste
Method
To make the chili-garlic paste place everything into the jug of a stick blender and blitz until you have a smooth bright red paste. Set aside.
Heat the oil in a large frying pan or wok over high heat.
Stir-fry the beans for 3-4 minutes, or until tender and the skins are blistered and a few charred black marks appear on the skin.
Remove beans from the pan, leaving the excess oil in the pan and place back onto a high heat.
Add in the onion and beef mince. Cook, breaking up with a spoon for 4-5 minutes, or until the beef is nearly cooked through. Add in a large tablespoon of the chilli garlic paste and continue to cook for a further 5 minutes to cook off the aromatics before stirring through the oyster sauce. Mix the cornflour with 1/3 cup of water and pour into the pan along with the reserved beans.
Toss for 1 minute, or until the cornflour has thickened and the sauce is glossy. Scatter with sesame seeds and serve.
Tips:
You can adjust the heat levels by adding more or less chilli depending on your threshold. You can swap the beef mince for pork, chicken, lamb mince or even a mixture of mushrooms and tofu for vegetarians.
Serve with steamed rice, noodles or as we often do at home over a bed of crisp lettuce.
Recipe by Courtney Roulston
