How to shred green beans

It is very easy to cut green beans into shreds. We just lay the green beans flat, remove the whiskers on both sides of the beans, and then cut them into shreds with a slanting knife. After being shredded, the green beans can be used to stir-fry foods such as bacon or squid. Because the green beans are easier to cook after being shredded, we need to fry the squid first, and then add the green beans after the squid is cooked, stir-fry, and then add light soy sauce and water.

How to shred green beans

Just lay the green beans flat and cut into shreds, split them in half in the middle, lay them flat and cut into shreds. Remove the stems from the green beans and cut them diagonally. Cut diagonally with a knife and keep the spacing smaller.

How to make French beans fried with bacon

1. Wash the bacon with warm water, cut the fat and lean parts, steam it in a pressure cooker and set aside.

Remove the tendons from the 2-season beans, wash them, and cut them into oblique sections. Slice the bacon and separate the fat and lean meat.

3. Heat the pan without adding oil, add the fat part and stir-fry over low heat until it becomes transparent and oil comes out.

4Slightly stir-fry the lean meat and set aside.

5 Use bacon oil to fry the green beans until the skin is wrinkled and cooked, then add salt and stir-fry evenly.

6 Add the fried bacon. Stir-fry evenly and serve.

How to choose green beans

Simply put, good green beans should have full pods, be plump and juicy, have no old tendons when broken, be tender green in color, and have a smooth skin without any insect marks. Therefore, these characteristics should be used as the selection criteria when purchasing green beans.

Principles for purchasing green beans: the pods are full, plump and juicy, with no old tendons when broken, tender green in color, and smooth skin without any insect marks.

In addition, there are many varieties of green beans, and the quality of different varieties varies greatly. Generally, the quality of long hoe (tall stalks) is better than that of dwarf hoe (short stalks), and round pod types are better than flat pod types. But there are exceptions, such as the tall-stalked, flat-pod, white-shelled type produced in Northeast China, commonly known as oil beans, which are tender, glutinous and delicious.

Regardless of the type, brown spots are likely to appear on the skin during storage, commonly known as rust spots, indicating aging, yellowing of the skin, high degree of fibrosis, dehydration of the pods, and deterioration of quality.

When purchasing, you should choose green beans with firm pods. When you break the beans, you can see that the pod walls are solid, there are no gaps between the beans and the pod walls, and there are very few tendons on both sides.