Szechuan-style pork and beans with egg noodles

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Recipe «Szechuan-style pork and beans with egg noodles» presented in category Recipes / Meat, to prepare this dish you will need no more 10 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author sheff would need: 200g button mushrooms, 400g green beans, 2 spring onions, 350g pork loin steak, 2 long red chillies , 2 cloves garlic, 60ml light soy sauce, 1 tbsp caster sugar , 60ml peanut or rice bran oil, 2 tsp sesame oil, 200g dried egg noodles, 1 tbsp white vinegar, 100g roasted unsalted cashews.

Ingredients:

  • 200g button mushrooms 
  • 400g green beans 
  • 2 spring onions 
  • 350g pork loin steak 
  • 2 long red chillies 
  • 2 cloves garlic 
  • 60ml light soy sauce 
  • 1 tbsp caster sugar 
  • 60ml peanut or rice bran oil 
  • 2 tsp sesame oil 
  • 200g dried egg noodles 
  • 1 tbsp white vinegar 
  • 100g roasted unsalted cashews 

Instructions

  1. Quarter mushrooms. Trim beans and halve long ones. Roughly chop onions. Roughly chop pork.
  2. Cut chillies in half, then process with garlic and 1 tablespoon soy sauce in a food processor until finely chopped. Remove half the mixture and set aside. Add the pork and sugar to food processor, then process briefly until finely chopped, but not a paste.
  3. Heat 2 tablespoons peanut oil and 1 teaspoon sesame oil in a wok over high heat. Add pork mixture and stir-fry for 3 minutes or until browned, then remove from wok.
  4. Add remaining 1 tablespoon peanut oil and 1 teaspoon sesame oil to wok. When hot, add mushrooms and beans, and stir-fry for 5 minutes or until mushrooms are golden and beans are almost tender.
  5. Meanwhile, cook the noodles in a saucepan of boiling salted water for 4 minutes or until tender, then drain.
  6. Return the pork mixture to the wok, add onions, the reserved chilli mixture, remaining 2 tablespoons soy sauce, vinegar and cashews. Cook, tossing, for 2 minutes or until combined and warmed through.
  7. Serve immediately with noodles.