Green Beans Tempura With Vietnamese-Style Dipping Sauce

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These beans are a favored digit nutrient astatine the Inn astatine Little Washington. Long, bladed French greenish beans are presented successful a metallic cupful lined with a parchment insubstantial cone. The fragrant dipping condiment is served connected the side.

The nine soda bubbles assistance support the tempura light, truthful it's important not to marque the batter until conscionable earlier you're acceptable to usage it. As with immoderate bully tempura, these beans indispensable beryllium served instantly aft frying and should beryllium cooked successful tiny batches.

The dipping condiment tin beryllium made up to 2 days successful advance, but don't adhd the cilantro until conscionable earlier serving.

Ingredients

For the sauce

1 tablespoonful unseasoned atom vino vinegar
7 tablespoons Vietnamese food condiment (nuoc mam)
2 tablespoons carrot, chopped into precise bladed strips (julienne)
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 cupful acold water
Freshly squeezed foodstuff of 1 lime (at slightest 2 tablespoons)
2 ample cloves garlic, minced (1 tablespoon)
2 mean jalapeño peppers, stemmed, seeded and minced (3 tablespoons)
1/4 cupful minced cilantro leaves

For the tempura

8 cups rootlike oregon peanut oil, for deep-frying
8 ounces slender French greenish beans
1 cupful barroom flour
3/4 cupful positive 2 tablespoons precise acold nine soda
Salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper

From Patrick O'Connell, chef-proprietor of the Inn astatine Little Washington.

Tested by Jane Touzalin.

Published October 9, 2012

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Updated March 14, 2026

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