Sriracha Orange Glazed Green Beans

September is a great time of year for fresh green beans here in Sacramento. I was too busy to plant them this year, but have been finding beauties at our local market. Usually we just boil them until tender, place a dab of butter on them, sprinkle with salt and pepper and call it a day.

Here’s a quick and easy way to take them up a notch, tossing the cooked green beans with a no-cooking-required citrusy, spicy sauce made with sweet orange marmalade, soy sauce, and spicy Sriracha hot sauce. In fact, this three-ingredient spicy orange dipping sauce you could use for any number of recipes.

I first encountered it while observing the Pillsbury Bake-Off challenge last year. Lauren Wyler from Austin, Texas served up the sauce with her entry for Cashew Chicken Twists. What I love about the sauce is that it is so easy to make! No cooking. Just stirring. Only 3 ingredients, though I’ve been known to add a little rice vinegar or dark sesame oil depending on the taste I’m after. It’s terrific with green beans and also great with brussels sprouts.

Sriracha Orange Glazed Green Beans Recipe

• Prep time: 5 minutes
• Cook time: 10 minutes
• Yield: Serves 4

Ingredients

• 3/4 pound to 1 pound of green beans, tough ends snipped off and discarded
• Salt
• 1/3 cup sweet orange marmalade
• 1 1/2 teaspoons soy sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon sriracha

Method

1 Boil green beans in salted water: Fill a 4 quart pot half-way with water. Add 2 teaspoons of salt. Bring water to a boil. Place green beans in the boiling water. Cook for 5 minutes, or until the green beans are just tender.

If your green beans are fresh and young, they should cook quickly. If they are older tougher beans, they may take longer than 5 minutes to cook.

When the are just cooked to the point of tenderness, remove the pot from heat and strain out the hot water.

Place the beans into a bowl of icy water to quickly stop the cooking and then place them in a large bowl.

2 Mix marmalade, soy sauce, Sriracha: While the beans are cooking stir together in a small bowl the orange marmalade, soy sauce, and Sriracha hot sauce. Taste and adjust proportions to your taste.

If you are using a marmalade that isn’t particularly sweet, you may want to add a teaspoon or two of sugar. If you are using soy sauce that isn’t very salty, you may want to add a little more soy sauce. Add more Sriracha to taste if you would like the sauce spicier.

3 Toss cooked green beans with sauce: Add the marmalade sauce to the cooked green beans and toss to coat.

Serve immediately.

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