This dish, courtesy of myrecipes.com is a hit! The fresh green beans with soy sauce, brown sugar and crushed red pepper is delight for your taste buds!
I can’t say enough about this recipe. It takes only minutes to prepare this flavorful, healthy side dish.
The green beans are tossed with a sweet and spicy mix ( although not too spicy) that would be a great accompaniment to any meal.
Just be careful not to overcook the green beans. They need to be a beautiful bright green color and nice and crunchy! I also doubled the sauce to make sure every last bit of those lovely green beans were coated.
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Ingredients for Caramelized Spicy Green Beans
1 pound fresh haricots verts (french green beans)
2 tbsp. light brown sugar
1 tbsp. soy sauce
1/2 tsp. dried crushed red pepper
1 medium-sized red bell pepper, sliced into thin strips
1/2 medium-size sweet onion, sliced into thin strips
1 tsp. peanut oil
3/4 tsp. kosher salt, plus 1 tbsp. set aside.
Place a pot of water one high-heat. Bring to a boil. Add 1 tbsp. kosher salt and green beans.
Set aside a bowl with ice water.
Cook haricots verts for 1 minute.
Drain the haricots vests and plunge into ice water to stop the cooking process.
Drain well and pat dry with paper towels.
Stir together the brown sugar, soy sauce and crushed red pepper.
In a medium to large sauce pan over medium heat, heat the peanut oil.
Sauté the red pepper and onions for 3-4 minutes.
Add the green beans and cook for another 3-4 minutes.
Sprinkle with 3/4 tsp. kosher salt.
Remove from heat, add soy sauce mixture to haricots verts and stir to coat.
It’s that simple!
