Crab Meat with Green Beans

Ingredients

• 3 red crabs
• 1 tsp rice wine
• 1 egg
• 2 tbsp corn oil

Sauce

• ½ cup green beans
• 1 tbsp rice wine
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• ½ cup beef broth
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp sugar
• ¼ tsp pepper
• 1 tbsp cornstarch

Directions

1. Scrub fresh red crabs with brush to clean and steam 5 minutes in boiling, salted water.
2. Break shells, remove meat and sprinkle meat with wine.
3. Parboil green beans in salted, boiling water for 2 minutes and cut diagonally.
4. Beat egg, add dash of salt and mix with crab meat.
5. Preheat oil in frying pan, pour beaten egg and crabmeat into pan, and fry slowly.
6. Mix oil, wine and soy sauce in pan and sauté green beans in this sauce.
7. Add beef broth to green beans and season with salt, sugar and pepper.
8. Dissolve 1 tablespoon cornstarch in 2 tablespoons water and add to green bean mixture, stirring 1 minute until it thickens.
9. Place fried crab meat on serving dish and pour sauce over.