10 Minute Stir-Fried Green Beans with Shrimp

This stir-fried green beans with shrimp recipe is made with a shortlist of ingredients. It tastes better than take-out. This a quick and easy stir fry recipe that you can make on any weeknight dinner and your family will love it.

Skip the take-out and make this easy stir-fried green beans with shrimp at home. This Asian dinner recipe can be ready in about 10 minutes. Don't forget to serve it with Instant Pot white rice or brown rice.

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10 Minute Stir-Fried Green Beans and Shrimp

This stir-fried green beans and shrimp recipe is quick and affordable. In addition, when you make your own Chinese food at home you can easily modify the amount and type of ingredients. Shift it around according to your taste and diet preferences, it's actually quite fun to do!

Chinese green beans stir fry is one of the most popular menu items you can find at any Chinese buffet or restaurant, such as Panda Express. Surprisingly, restaurant-quality green beans stir fry is not too difficult to make.

Easy Homemade Stir Fry Sauce

In this recipe, I cooked the green beans and shrimp in a homemade stir fry sauce. The sauce is made of garlic, ginger, Shaoxing wine, soy sauce, and oyster sauce. It contains no MSG!

This homemade stir fry sauce is a bit lighter than what you could find at the restaurant. It has the perfect amount of salt and sugar from soy sauce and oyster sauce. It's not too sweet or too salty but you can adjust some of the ingredients to make it taste just the way you like.

Ingredients and Variations

This stir-fried recipe is made of green beans, shrimp, soy sauce, oyster sauce, garlic, ginger, and Shaoxing wine.

Shaoxing wine is a staple ingredient in Chinese cooking. It's a fermented rice wine that is made specifically for cooking to add fragrance and authentic flavor to any dish.

You can find Shaoxing wine at any Asian market, such as 99 ranch market, or H-mart for $2.99+ per bottle.

The best substitute for Shaoxing wine is dry sherry.

Ginger adds pungent, peppery, and fresh flavors to a dish. If you are not a big fan of ginger-flavored dishes, feel free to skip them.

How to Stir Fry Green Beans and Shrimp

The preparation and cooking process is pretty simple and quick. Stir fry is done over high heat and your ingredients should cook fast. For that reason, it's very important to prepare all the ingredients before turning on the heat.

The Preparation:

• Peel and devein shrimp then chop them into ½-inch pieces.
• Snap off the stem end of the green beans then half crosswise.
• Mince garlic and ginger.
• Prepare the soy sauce, oyster sauce, and Shaoxing wine in separate bowls or combine them all in a bowl.

Next, the cooking part......

Step 1. Pre-Cook the Green Beans

Green beans take a longer cooking time compared to the other ingredients. Therefore, it's very important to precook the green beans before anything else, so that everything cooks perfectly at the same time.

If you just throw the fresh green beans with the other ingredients in a wok, you will end up with uncooked green beans or a burnt sauce.

To fix this issue, you can blanch or stir-fry the green beans first.

However, I personally think that stir-frying green beans would be the best option for this stir-fry recipe. This is because blanching requires a lot of water, and wet vegetables can ruin a stir fry or result in mushy vegetables. 

Here's how to do it:

• Preheat the wok over high heat then add oil.
• When the oil is shimmering, add green beans and cook for about 3-4 minutes.
• Remove the green beans from the work and set them aside.

Step 2. Stir Fry the Aromatic Vegetables and Shrimp

• Heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. Cook the minced garlic and ginger for about 5 seconds or until fragrant.
• Add shrimp into a wok. Cook and keep stirring until the shrimp are just beginning to turn pink, for about 30 seconds.

Step 3. Add Homemade Stir Fry Sauce

• Add the green beans and stir-fry sauce into the wok.
• Cook and keep stirring until the shrimp are cooked through and the beans are crisp-tender, about 2-3 minutes longer.
• Taste and adjust the seasoning with additional soy sauce and/or oyster sauce if needed.

FAQ and Cooking Tips:

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