Easy Wu Se Green Beans with Sunflower Seeds

Spicy Tender-crisp Green Beans

Wu Se green beans have a distinctive spicy peanut sauce. In this easy recipe, flavour is jazzed up with a bit of spring in the addition of great-tasting maple syrup.  The beans are lightly steamed before being combine with sprouted sunflower seeds, sun-dried tomatoes, sweet red pepper, garlic, ginger, and fresh cilantro, and dressed with spicy/sweet maple-peanut sauce.

You'll need: For the Beans: 1 cup greens beans; 1/2 cup sprouted sunflower seeds; 1/4 cup dehydrated tomatoes; 1/4 cup chopped cilantro; 2 teaspoons chopped ginger root; 1 small hot chilie. diced; 1 clove garlic, chopped. For the Wu Se Sauce: 1/4 cup tamari; 1/4 soaking liquid from re-hydrated sun-dried tomatoes; 2 tablespoons chunky peanut butter;  2 tablespoons water; 1 teaspoon coconut butter; 1 teaspoon maple syrup; 1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon ground red chili pepper, 1 teaspoon kyoto red miso. Garnish: black sesame seeds.

Method: Snip sun-dried tomatoes into small pieces, and re-hydrate in fresh water. Chop peppers, ginger, cilantro and garlic.

Spicy Peanut-flavoured Wu Se Sauce

Place all sauce ingredients, except miso in a small dish and gently heat to melt coconut  and peanut butters. Remove from heat, add miso, and stir until smooth.
  

Place sunflower seeds in a large bowl along with chopped sweet and hot red peppers, cilantro, ginger and garlic.

Spicy Wu Se Green Beans

Rinse and cut green beans in half. Lightly steam. When beans are tender-crisp, mix into bowl and add sauce, stirring well to coat vegetables. Transfer to serving dish, and garnish with a generous sprinkle of black sesame seeds.

5-Spice Steamed Rice and Wu Se Green Beans

 To Serve: Dish up with plain or fancy steamed rice.