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This delicious Green Bean and Mushroom Stir-fry is ready in minutes and one pan! With tender-crisp garlic and ginger vegetables smothered in oyster sauce, it’s a wonderful side dish perfect with rice!
Why This Green Bean And Shiitake Mushroom Stir Fry Is So Good
- A healthy side dish.
- Easy and quick to make.
- All made in one pan.
Ingredients
- Green beans
- Cooking oil
- Onions
- Mushrooms
- Garlic cloves
- Fresh ginger
- Oyster sauce
How To Make This Green Bean And Mushroom Stir Fry – Step By Step
- Fill the wok or saute pan with about 1 cup of water. Bring to a boil and then add the green beans. Cover and let steam for 4-5 minutes or until crisp-tender. Drain the beans, wipe the wok dry and return wok to the stove.
- Heat the wok over high heat and swirl in the cooking oil. When very hot, add in the onions and mushrooms and stir fry for 3 minutes. Turn the heat to medium, add in the cooked green beans, ginger and the garlic and quickly stir fry for an additional 30 seconds or until fragrant. Take care not to burn the ginger or garlic.
- Stir in the oyster sauce and the 2 tablespoons of water. Cook for 1 minute.
Benefits Of Stir Fry
Learning a good stir fry technique for home cooking is important – it will save you from throwing out the odds and ends of vegetables in the refrigerator, and give you countless recipe ideas to whip up at the last minute.
A stir fry usually only takes 10 minutes to cook and can be as flexible as you want. Here’s my technique for home cooks.
If you don’t have a wok, you can use a wide bottomed pan.
A Super Easy Side Dish
If you’re looking for a quick and easy side dish perfect, you need to try this stir-fry! It’s simple enough to make for busy weeknights yet fancy enough for holiday celebrations.
It has a short list of ingredients you probably have on hand and comes together in under 30 minutes yet delivers tons of flavor. You get tender-crisp vegetables smothered in a delicious sweet and savory sauce that’s heavenly with steamed rice!
Variations Of This Stir Fry
This green bean stir-fry is a vegetarian . It’s a delicious vegetable dish as is, but you can easily add your choice of protein if you like.
Bite-sized chicken breast is a great option to add as well as beef sirloin, shrimp, or crispy tofu cubes.
Top Tips For This Green Bean And Mushroom Stir Fry
- Cut the green beans into uniform lengths and the mushrooms in a uniform thickness to ensure even cooking.
- Stir-frying is a speedy process; have all your ingredients and liquids prepped and ready to go before you start.
- Drain the vegetables well and pat dry to ensure they sear nicely and not cook in their steam.
- Use a wide, heavy-bottomed pan or wok to allow food to cook quickly and evenly.
- To prevent sticking, preheat the pan before adding the oil and swirl to coat the bottom and sides of the pan.
- Stir-frying is done on high heat; use oils with high smoke points such as peanut or canola oil and make to stir the food constantly to prevent burning.
- You need to make sure that the wok has no water – not even a drop – as you’ll be adding in cooking oil. Hot wok + water + oil = splatter and burns.
- Why do we not add in the ginger and garlic in an earlier step with onions? Because they’ll burn. Burnt ginger and garlic is bitter. So we add it AFTER the mushrooms and the onions have cooked.
Check Out These Other Delicious Stir Fry Recipes
- Shrimp Teriyaki Stir Fry Recipe
- Beef And Broccoli Stir Fry
- Baby Bok Choy with Ground Chicken Stir Fry
- Fresh Pear and Shrimp Stir Fry Recipe
Have you tried this Green Bean and Mushroom Stir Fry? Feel free to leave a star rating and I’d love to hear from you in the comments below!
Green Bean and Shiitake Mushrooms
Jaden Hair
This delicious Green Bean and Mushroom Stir-fry is ready in minutes and one pan! With tender-crisp garlic and ginger vegetables smothered in oyster sauce, it’s a wonderful side dish perfect with rice!
5 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 8 minutes mins
Cook Time 10 minutes mins
Total Time 18 minutes mins
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Asian, Chinese
Servings 4 servings
Calories 55 kcal
Ingredients
- 1/2 pound green beans trimmed
- 2 teaspoons cooking oil
- 1/2 onion thinly sliced
- 6 ounces fresh mushrooms sliced
- 1 clove garlic finelly minced
- 1 teaspoon finely grated fresh ginger
- 1 1/2 tablespoon oyster sauce + 2 tablespoons water
Instructions
Fill the wok or saute pan with about 1 cup of water. Bring to a boil and then add the green beans. Cover and let steam for 4-5 minutes or until crisp-tender. Drain the beans, wipe the wok dry and return wok to the stove.
Heat the wok over high heat and swirl in the cooking oil. When very hot, add in the onions and mushrooms and stir fry for 3 minutes. Turn the heat to medium, add in the cooked green beans, ginger and the garlic and quickly stir fry for an additional 30 seconds or until fragrant. Take care not to burn the ginger or garlic.
Stir in the oyster sauce and the 2 tablespoons of water. Cook for 1 minute.
Nutrition
Calories: 55kcalCarbohydrates: 8gProtein: 3gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 191mgPotassium: 275mgFiber: 2gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 391IUVitamin C: 9mgCalcium: 24mgIron: 1mg
Keyword green bean stir fry, mushroom stir fry, vegetarian stir fry
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Neena on 2/18/22 at 11:35 pm
This was great, and so easy! Thank you 🙂Reply
Karan on 12/26/21 at 1:11 pm
Thank you for the tutorial. I love this meal! Green beans are so crunchy, and I can smell aroma of shiitake mushrooms!
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M Yang on 5/8/21 at 9:31 am
So simple and delicious. Will make this again and again.Reply
Rutuja on 1/4/21 at 9:04 am
Like this article so much very nice thanks to it
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kiran on 1/4/21 at 9:02 am
Sounds great and can’t wait to try it. I love that you go above and beyond to explain things. I actually hate cooking but with your explanations, I know why I’m doing certain things and I think I’ll enjoy making this dish.
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Serene on 5/24/16 at 9:05 pm
Yummy, going to try this recipe this weekend!
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Clara on 5/3/16 at 2:32 pm
Thanks for the recipe! I love it when it’s so easy and quick. Recipes with lengthy ingredient lists and multiple steps scare me!
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Sara on 10/21/15 at 2:13 am
Looks yummy!! I’m not a huge fan of fresh green beans through… but I think asparagus would be a good substitute. (Or gailan, but I don’t have that available nearby), I’m guessing I just have to adjust the steaming time…. *must experiment*
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Mary Ellen on 10/18/14 at 9:12 pm
This looks so good, and easy. I’ll be doing more stir frying now, thanks.
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Herman on 12/9/13 at 9:38 pm
You actually make it seem so easy with your presentation but I find this matter to be really something that I think I
would never understand. It seems too complicated and very broad for me.I am looking forward for your next post, I will try to get
the hang of it!Reply
Diana52 on 5/13/12 at 1:40 am
Love this recipe! I make this often with other veggies as well -broccoli or Brussels sprouts.
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Fran on 3/16/12 at 8:57 pm
I love the combination of vegetables you used here, but how do you think it would turn out using reconstituted shiitake? I rarely see fresh ones here.
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Kendrra on 3/10/12 at 9:22 am
Looks great, vibrate and inviting.
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randi on 3/9/12 at 12:11 pm
Made this with dinner last night. Was hoping for leftovers but they disappeared really quickly. So delicious. Thanks!
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Susan Young on 3/8/12 at 11:41 am
Sounds great and can’t wait to try it. I love that you go above and beyond to explain things. I actually hate cooking but with your explanations, I know why I’m doing certain things and I think I’ll enjoy making this dish.
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Amy @ A Little Nosh on 3/6/12 at 1:30 pm
I freaking love shiitake mushrooms. Any thoughts on the grow-your-own logs that they make?
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SteamyKitchen on 3/6/12 at 3:57 pm
You’ll only grow enough for a couple of servings!
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moosish on 3/6/12 at 1:42 am
Looks delicious, nutritious and easy to make, but… the oyster sauce definitely put the brakes on it for me, since I am a vegetarian. Can you please tell me a vegetarian alternative to oyster sauce that would work well with this recipe? I would really appreciate it!
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SeattleDee on 3/5/12 at 5:45 pm
Thanks for the refresher course in stir fry 101. Today’s lunch rocked when I followed your directions using asparagus, crimini ‘shrooms and firm tofu cubes as the mains with onions, ginger and garlic adding sparkle to the dish. The added bonus is that my produce drawers now have some room for new “stuff”.
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Bill Foster on 3/5/12 at 10:35 am
I am highly allergic to oyster. What can i substitute for oyster sauce?
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SteamyKitchen on 3/5/12 at 10:43 am
You can get vegetarian “oyster” sauce – you’ll find that at an Asian market. There’s also a “vegetarian stir fry sauce” that has similar flavors.
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Tori @ The Shiksa in the Kitchen on 3/4/12 at 3:17 pm
I’d love to share an adapted version of this– do you have a suggested sub for the oyster sauce that does not include shellfish? Soy sauce, perhaps? It looks so light and flavorful!
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Chris on 3/3/12 at 10:47 am
Absolutely gorgeous stir fry! The sh*take mushrooms really rock because of their natural flavor enhancers, I bet this was an amazingly good tasting dish.
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Ann on 3/2/12 at 11:29 pm
It looks absolutely fantastic. Bright, crisp and delicious!
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Tia on 3/2/12 at 9:04 pm
Thank you for this, Jaden! I love how you are able to simplify so many recipes for me. Gonna steam instead of blanch the green beans from now on! 🙂
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Kim in MD on 3/1/12 at 11:23 am
YUM! I love everything about this dish, and I can’t wait to make it!
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Silvia@Maidscream on 2/29/12 at 3:02 am
wow another healthy food commin from you 🙂 i like greeen beans
I already added this to my list.
thank you dear.Reply
Kathy L. on 2/28/12 at 10:25 pm
wow! looks so easy! I will have to try this soon! I love your website! New source for great recipes! Thank you!
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Carrie @ Kiss My Whisk on 2/28/12 at 10:46 am
I just purchased some shiitake mushrooms at the market, this would be perfect for them!
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Tim @ Chicken and Apples on 2/27/12 at 10:25 pm
I’m definitely one of those people who always have bits and bobs of different vegetables in the fridge. Somehow I never think to stir fry them. This looks like a great choice for a healthy weeknight dinner, especially with a bit of marinated beef.
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Gleeful on 2/27/12 at 6:57 pm
Thanks for the tips! I love green beans in stir fry. That looks simple and tasty.
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Jessica on 2/27/12 at 2:35 pm
You had me at green bean! Oh and all that gorgeous wok action!
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Bev Weidner on 2/27/12 at 1:45 pm
MERCY me, I’d love that right this second.
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Marina@cowboycountryvegetarian on 2/27/12 at 1:36 pm
Thank you for the tutorial. I love this meal! Green beans are so crunchy, and I can smell aroma of shiitake mushrooms!
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Lyndsey@TheTinySkillet on 2/27/12 at 12:44 pm
Love this. I do like stir fry and fried rice just for those odds and ends…a good way to clean out the fridge!
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Blog is the New Black on 2/27/12 at 12:35 pm
I need this! Looks wonderful and fresh!
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