This spicy ground beef and green beans is one of the most popular dishes in China, originated from Szechuan cuisine. It is also one of my favorite dishes.
First, I deep fried the green beans until crisp outside, then sautéed the garlic, ginger and dried chili pepper until fragrant.
After that, I stirred in the marinated ground beef and cook until the beef is no longer pink.
Finally, I added the green beans back to the pan, stirred and tossed in salt, sugar and soy sauce to season.
Check out the recipe at the end of this post and learn how to make this savory and spicy ground beef and green beans stir-fry. I am sure you will be a fan of it!
Below is a summary of how I made this dish with pictures.
I hope you enjoy making this super delicious ground beef and green beans at home. If you like this recipe, please leave a rating and share it with your friends!
- 1 pound green beans, ends trimmed, let dry
- ⅕ pound ground beef
- 2 dried chili peppers, cut into small pieces
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- ½ tablespoon minced ginger
- For marinating the beef:
- a touch of salt
- a touch of sugar
- a touch of oil
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon cooking wine
- For cooking and seasoning:
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- Marinating the beef with salt, sugar, oil, soy sauce and cooking wine for about 10 minutes.
- Heat ½ cup of oil in the pan over medium heat, carefully add in the green beans, deep fry for about 8 minutes until their surfaces are crisp.
- Fish the green beans out and set aside, leave half of the oil in the pan and discard the other half.
- Turn to medium-high heat and stir in the dried chili peppers, garlic and ginger, sauté for about 2 minutes until fragrant and browned.
- Add the ground beef into the pan and stir fry for another 2 minutes until the beef has changed color.
- Stir in the green beans and toss in the salt, sugar and soy sauce, sitr fry for another 2-3 minutes and serve.
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12 comments
Just made this for dinner. I had a big pile of beans from the farmers market to use up. It was great! Very easy to make too. Thank you.
I made this subbing in a Beyond Burger and red pepper flakes for the beef and dried peppers. I also used Shao Xing cooking wine. It was really good and super easy to make. I will definitely make it again. Thanks for posting it!
Hi Allison,
You are very welcome, I am glad you liked it 🙂
On a scale 1-10 how spicy is this
I would give a 4-5 🙂
Just 1/5 pound ground beef? That’s like 3.2 ounces, not much with a pound of green beans. I’m going to try the recipe because it sounds really good, and I do “blistered” Szechuan beans frequently.
I made it with 500g of ground beef or 1lb I think that is (I’m in Australia). It was great !
Noms! Thank you. Had some beans and some mince to use up.. The perfect recipe. So easy and tasty! ❤ I’ll be making this again!
Just made it. Added sesame oil, vinegar and dark soy for colour and delicious! Ive tried other recipes and yours has the most flavour🤤
Woohoo, thank you! Glad to hear it!
How do I save this recipe? I made it and 1) it was super simple and 2) it was super delicious!
Hi Roxanne, you can print the recipe out using the print button located on the upper right conner of the recipe section, let me know if you have problem locating it!