Runner beans with black bean and chilli (Jia chang dao dou) from Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking (page 154) by Fuchsia Dunlop

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  • eeeve on September 01, 2025

    I had a glut of French beans, so I made this recipe despite not having any fermented black beans. Googling substitutions came up with miso paste and a bit of soy sauce. This was actually rather good as a light meal served with jasmine rice.

  • bernalgirl on September 13, 2021

    A delicious and easy summer side dish

  • sosayi on January 25, 2018

    Quick, easy and delicious. I cut back on dried chile to make it toddler friendly and it was devoured. I also just used trimmed green beans. I'd definitely repeat.

  • Joyceeong on July 13, 2017

    Delicious stir-fry dish. I've used more garlic and ginger, minced them instead of sliced. Microwave the sliced beans for two minutes instead of boiling them. This dish goes into my list of "everyday rotation dishes".

  • Delys77 on February 17, 2014

    Pg. 154 I love black beans so this was a big hit for me. I used some chilli flakes instead of the crushed dried chilli (same result so why not just use the flakes). With the green beans this came together very quickly and very easily and had a lovely heat, and smooth umami flavour from the black beans. I would double the recipe next time.

  • PinchOfSalt on January 27, 2013

    Quick, easy, and delicious. Made this with green beans (ends snipped, left whole), substituted a couple of re-hydrated dried chilies for the fresh chili called for in the recipe, and used a teaspoon each of chopped garlic and ginger (and no whole garlic clove). An instant favorite! (Note that in the US edition the English title of this recipe is Green or Romano beans with black bean and chilli.)

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