Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to fry frozen string beans in a frying pan? Prepare the products. Beans can be used both purchased and from your site. When buying beans in a store, it is necessary to check the expiration date, the bean pods should easily separate from each other, not be stuck together in one lump.
Step 2:
Defrost the beans. How to defrost string beans? There are two ways to do this. Put it in a bowl and put it in the refrigerator so that thawing occurs gradually. This option is suitable if the beans need to be cooked for breakfast. For urgent cooking, pour boiling water over the frozen beans, it is more convenient to do this by putting the beans in a colander. In no case should it be kept in warm water, otherwise most vitamins will die.
Step 3:
As a rule, beans from the store in bags are frozen already washed and cut into pieces. If the bean pods are long, then cut them into small pieces that will be convenient to cook and eat. Pour water into a saucepan, add a pinch of salt, bring it to a boil. Carefully lower the beans into boiling water.
Step 4:
Reduce the heat to medium and boil the beans for about 5 minutes, until al dente — half-cooked. In general, beans do not tolerate prolonged heat treatment, its taste will deteriorate, and useful components will evaporate. Drain the water from the pan, throwing the beans into a colander.
Step 5:
Peel the garlic cloves. Cut some of the garlic into slices, and chop the other finely with a knife or pass through a press.
Step 6:
Pour a couple of tablespoons of olive oil into a frying pan, heat it well over medium heat. Put the garlic slices in the oil, let it brown so that the garlic gives all the flavor and taste to the oil. Then remove the garlic pieces from the pan. Put the boiled beans in the garlic oil. Fry the beans on moderate heat for 2-3 minutes, stirring it with a spatula, without covering the pan with a lid.
Step 7:
Then add the remaining garlic, stir and continue to fry the beans for a couple more minutes. The dish is ready. Serve the beans to the table as an independent dish or as a side dish to meat, chicken or fish. Bon appetit!
Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper).
Use oil with a high smoking temperature for frying! Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it.
Unrefined oils, with rare exceptions, have a low smoking point. There are a lot of unfiltered organic particles in them, which quickly begin to burn.
Refined oils are more resistant to heating, and their smoking point is higher. If you are going to cook food in the oven, on a frying pan or grill, make sure that you use oil with a high smoking point. The most common of the oils with a high smoking point: refined varieties of sunflower, olive and grape.
To check whether the oil has warmed up well enough in the pan, you can do it in a simple way. Lower a wooden spatula into it. If bubbles have gathered around it, then you can start the frying process.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Olive oil - 913 kcal/100g
- String beans - 24 kcal/100g
