Peppers with black beans

Peppers with black beans

Stir up a pepper with black bean dish for Chinese New Year

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Cook time

Cook 30 - 40 mins

Vegetarian

Vegetarian, Super healthy

Method

  1. Heat a wok over a high heat until hot, then add the oil. Once the oil is hot, add the shallots, black beans, garlic and ginger, and stir fry for 1 minute. Then tip in the peppers and stir fry for 1 minute.
  2. Add the wine or sherry, chilli bean sauce, soy sauce, sugar and stock or water, and continue to cook over a high heat for 5 minutes, or until the peppers are soft and most of the liquid has evaporated.
  3. Stir in the sesame oil, give the mixture several turns to mix well, turn out on a serving plate and leave to cool. Can be made up to 2 hours ahead. Serve at room temperature.
Try

Salted black beans

Salted black beans are small black soya beans fermented with salt and spices to preserve them. You can find them in Chinese grocery stores, or black bean sauce is a good alternative.

Per serving

101 kcalories, protein 4g, carbohydrate 11g, fat 5 g, saturated fat 1g, fibre 2g, sugar 2g, salt 1.5 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2003.

Try 3 issues of Good Food magazine for £3 - subscribe now!

Latest comments and suggestions

  • 10 February 2008

    Biljana commented on this recipe

    Brilliant! Extremely refreshing and goes so well with other Chinese New Year recipes by Ken Hom. I make this dish for Every Chines New Year - everybody loves it!

    Flag as inappropriate

    Please let us know your name and the reason you find the above comment inappropriate.

  • 30 March 2008

    sally rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Five stars for flavour, although I too preferred it hot, not very filling though.

    Flag as inappropriate

    Please let us know your name and the reason you find the above comment inappropriate.

  • 11 April 2009

    Rosemary Barton commented on this recipe

    This is a fantastic recipe, there is never any left whenever I make it. We like it both hot and at room temperature.

    Flag as inappropriate

    Please let us know your name and the reason you find the above comment inappropriate.

  • 11 April 2009

    Rosemary Barton rated this recipe

    5 stars

    Flag as inappropriate

    Please let us know your name and the reason you find the above comment inappropriate.

  • 30 January 2012

    thynk2much rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    We preferred it hot as well -- delicious!

    Flag as inappropriate

    Please let us know your name and the reason you find the above comment inappropriate.

Leave a comment or suggestion

You must sign in or register to leave a comment.

Sign in / Register

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Cook time

Cook 30 - 40 mins

Vegetarian

Vegetarian, Super healthy

Ingredients

  • 1½ tbsp groundnut oil or vegetable oil
  • 3 tbsp finely chopped shallots
  • 2 tbsp coarsley chopped salted black beans
  • 1½ tbsp finely chopped garlic
  • 1 tbsp peeled and finely chopped fresh root ginger
  • 2 red, yellow and green peppers , all seeded and cut into 2.5cm/1in squares
  • 2 tbsp Shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry
  • 1 tbsp chilli bean sauce
  • 2 tbsp dark soy sauce
  • 2 tsp caster sugar
  • 150ml vegetable stock or water
  • 2 tsp sesame oil
Print this recipe
Add to your binder

Per serving

101 kcalories, protein 4g, carbohydrate 11g, fat 5 g, saturated fat 1g, fibre 2g, sugar 2g, salt 1.5 g

Advertisement

Your binder

Here are three other great reasons why to sign up:

  • You get an online binder, where you can store all your favourite recipes and create menus.

Follow Good Food

Advertisement

All about Good Food

Magazine

Good Food Magazine

Subscribe to Good Food magazine - enjoy 100+ triple-tested recipes delivered to your door, every month.

Order today, and receive your first 3 issues for just £3

On TV

Foodie TV

See your favourite chefs on Sky Channel 247, Virgin TV 260 and find their recipes at goodfoodchannel.co.uk.

Good Food Apps

Good Food Apps

For Good Food on the go, download our apps to your phone or portable device.
Find out more here

Buy ingredients

With just one click, the full list of recipe ingredients will be put into a basket at your choice of provider. Choose from:

mySupermarket Compare prices and choose a retailer you wish to buy them from.

Ocado Let Ocado deliver all you need for this recipe, right to your door

Tesco Buy all the ingredients from our recipes through your Tesco online shop.

new

Asda Shop with Asda? You can now buy ingredients for our recipes via your Asda online shop.

In association with the above providers. Terms and conditions apply.

Close