
Sometimes the best weeknight dinners are the easy ones. Growing up my mom would make Vietnamese stir-fried green beans and egg for us all the time. We dipped it in fish sauce (nuoc cham), and it was part of our regular rotation of side dishes that we ate with our family style dinners.
Vietnamese home meals are typically fairly simple. They aren’t always fancy or complicated. These dishes can’t be ordered at any restaurant. They’re just comfort foods that can be whipped up in less than 15 minutes by the home chef.
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In Vietnamese home cooking, we stir-fry a lot of vegetables, and it’s very common to use egg. There’s also a version of this dish that uses bitter melon, sliced thinly.

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If you’re making a Vietnamese family-style dinner, you can serve these stir-fried green beans and eggs with a light soup and a meat or fish dish (possible caramelized pork ribs or braised fish). And if there are leftovers the next day, you can stir-fry these with rice and a Chinese sausage or two, and you’ll have fried rice.
And if you’re not a fan of fish sauce, you can dip this with soy sauce and eat with it rice, and it still tastes amazing. Happy eating!
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