Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Spicy Chinese Green Beans

 
Ben and I brought this as a picnic lunch to the farmed animal sanctuary Animal Acres...very zen lunch (that is until the chickens came to eat our lunch haha).

Serves 2; prep time ~20 mins 


Ingredients:
-1 lbs fresh green beans
- handful of raw cashews
- 1/2 package of firm or extra firm tofu
- 2 tbs soy sauce (or braggs aminos)
- 1 tbsp unseasoned rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp (or to taste) chili paste like siracha  - although be careful some of these sauces have fish oil in them....
- 1 tbsp chili oil (or sesame oil if you don't like spicy)
- dash ground ginger (or fresh if you like it...gross)
- 2 cloves diced garlic
- rice if you want to serve it with a carb

Instructions:
- start the rice if you want it
- prep green beans by chopping ends off
- saute garlic and cashews in chili oil for 2ish mins
- meanwhile mix all other ingredients (except green beans and tofu) in a separate bowl
- then add the green beans, tofu, and sauce mix and stir-fry for 5-7 mins
- serve with rice and enjoy!

1 comment:

practiCal fMRI said...

Liz also neglected to mention the part where she got mugged for her paper bag of goodies - these beans plus a kale citrus salad - by about a dozen goats and half a dozen sheep at Animal Acres. (I think I encouraged their frenzied behavior by carrying in some wild pea plants for them at the same time. But Liz came off worst because the goats & sheep assumed that whatever was in the bag was for them! :-)