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Sticky Pork Green Bean Noodles with Lime

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A pork mince noodle stir-fry with green beans, carrots, ginger, soy, honey, spring onions, and lime.

55 min515 kcal4 base servingsDinnerNoodlesMeat LedBusy Night
ContainsEgg, Gluten, Soya
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Focus ingredients: pork mince, egg noodles, green beans, lime

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Serving tip: Cool promptly in shallow portions and refrigerate within 1–2 hours at 0–5°C. Use within 48 hours, or sooner if the packet requires, and reheat once only until steaming hot throughout.

Sticky Pork Green Bean Noodles with Lime plated and ready to serve.

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Ingredients

What you need

  • 500g pork mince
  • 300g egg noodles
  • 220g green beans
  • 200g carrots
  • 60g spring onions
  • 25g fresh ginger
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 1 lime
  • 60ml soy sauce
  • 22 1/2ml honey
  • 15ml rice vinegar
  • 15ml vegetable oil
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 3500ml water

You'll also need

30cm 5l non-stick deep saute pan, 5l saucepan reused from beans for noodles, colander, tongs, measuring jug, scales, grater, knife, board and clean probe thermometer

Method

Step by step

Up to 8 clear steps
  1. Sticky Pork Green Bean Noodles with Lime cooking step 1: Prepare the vegetables and sauce.
    Step 1

    Prepare and mix sauce

    For more than four servings, repeat batches of no more than four. Divide displayed ingredients and method totals between batches; keep 250g maximum meat batches, pan sizes and per-batch times fixed. Allow extra elapsed time. Trim and halve beans. Use a vegetable peeler to make thin carrot ribbons; finely slice the remaining core. Slice spring onions, keeping white and green parts separate. Grate peeled garlic and fresh ginger. Measure 2g lime zest and 30ml juice. Keep raw pork chilled until needed. Mix all soy sauce, honey, rice vinegar, black pepper, all 2g zest and 15ml lime juice in a bowl. No extra salt is needed with the soy sauce.

  2. Sticky Pork Green Bean Noodles with Lime cooking step 2: Cook the noodles.
    Step 2

    Cook beans

    Bring 1000ml water to the boil in the 5l saucepan. Add all beans, return to the boil and simmer 4 minutes, or follow the packet if longer, until tender with a little bite. Drain and discard water.

    4 min
  3. Sticky Pork Green Bean Noodles with Lime cooking step 3: Brown the pork.
    Step 3

    Brown pork in batches

    Measure 7.5ml vegetable oil for the meat, dividing it between two equal batches. Heat each share in the 30cm 5l pan over medium-high heat. Fry pork in batches of no more than 250g for 6–8 minutes, breaking up clumps, until browned. Check the thickest clumps reach 75°C for 30 seconds with a clean probe; continue cooking and recheck if needed. Transfer cooked pork and juices to a clean bowl.

    16 min
  4. Sticky Pork Green Bean Noodles with Lime cooking step 4: Stir-fry the vegetables.
    Step 4

    Soften noodles

    After removing the last pork batch, bring 2500ml fresh water to the boil in the emptied 5l saucepan. Remove from heat, add all dry noodles and soak 6–7 minutes, stirring to separate, or follow the packet. Drain well. Cook the vegetables while noodles soften.

    7 min
  5. Sticky Pork Green Bean Noodles with Lime cooking step 5: Add the sticky sauce.
    Step 5

    Cook vegetables and aromatics

    Reduce heat to medium. Heat remaining 7.5ml vegetable oil. Add all carrots and spring onion whites; stir-fry 3 minutes until softened. Add all garlic and ginger for 1 minute, stirring to avoid burning.

    4 min
  6. Sticky Pork Green Bean Noodles with Lime cooking step 6: Toss with noodles.
    Step 6

    Finish in two batches

    Transfer cooked vegetables to the pork bowl and add all drained beans. Divide this mixture, the drained noodles and sauce into two equal portions. Return one portion of each to the pan and toss over medium-high heat 2 minutes until steaming hot and lightly coated. Serve that batch, then repeat with the remaining portions; do not crowd everything into the pan at once.

    4 min
  7. Sticky Pork Green Bean Noodles with Lime cooking step 7: Serve with spring onions.
    Step 7

    Serve

    Divide all cooked noodles, pork and vegetables evenly between the intended servings. Spoon over remaining 15ml lime juice and scatter all spring onion greens over the bowls, dividing these between both batches.