These Spicy Sriracha Green Beans are fast and flavorful! Grab some garlic and green beans and meet me in the kitchen for this fiery and delicious side dish!
I’ve been craving the spicy green beans from PF Chang’s extra fiercely lately.
Our nearest PFC, however, is over 90 minutes away and that drive totally not happening right now! Instead I took little fiery inspiration from my favorite restaurant side dish and put my own Sriracha-flecked spin on it.
The result? GREEN BEAN HEAVEN! These sweet and spicy green beans crazy tasty and freakishly fast too.
I’ve legit never inhaled green beans so fast in my life.
Paul and I adore this recipe (they’re a bit too spicy for the kiddo) and cannot WAIT for y’all to try them!
Spicy Sriracha Green Beans
You’ll only need 6 ingredients to whip up these spicy green beans in your kitchen. Green beans, garlic, sesame oil, Sriracha, sweet chili sauce, and soy sauce. You can also add toasted sesame seeds to the mix if you’re feeling a bit extra. I always have some on hand and like to toss them over all my Asian-inspired dishes like edible confetti.
Other tasty extras include sliced green onion and/or crushed red pepper flakes, in case you need even more fire for your face. Craving extra garlicky green beans? Feel free to add extra if the craving strikes!
serving suggestions
We love these spicy sriracha green beans served with fluffy long grain rice and a simple cucumber salad.
You can even make extra sweet and spicy sriracha glaze to drizzle over your rice. Cue excessive fanning and swooning!
It’s also fantastic with honey garlic shrimp, salmon, tofu, steak, or chicken and pretty darn delicious alongside my veggie-packed quinoa fried rice! The meal combinations are pretty much endless!
Spicy Sriracha Green Beans
Ingredients
- 1 pound green beans, washed + trimmed
- 2 TBSP low sodium soy sauce (gluten-free or regular)
- 2 TBSP sweet chili sauce
- 1 TBSP Sriracha plus extra to taste
- 1 TBSP sesame oil
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 1-2 tsp toasted sesame seeds (optional)
Instructions
- Fill a large pan with 1 inch of water and bring to a boil. Add green beans and blanch for 3 minutes.
- While the green beans cook, fill a large bowl with ice water and set aside. Next whisk together your sauce by combining soy sauce, sweet chili sauce and Sriracha. I added an extra half TBSP of Sriracha to my sauce, making it about 1.5 total and found it perfectly spicy without going overboard. Feel free to add as much as you’d like to increase the heat, or adjust as desired based on your spice preference.
- Empty pan into a colander to drain and add beans to your ice water to halt the cooking process, then drain once cool. This takes about a minute.
- Reduce burner to medium heat and add your sesame oil to the pan. Sauté minced garlic for 30 seconds, or until fragrant and simmering, then return your green beans to the pan. Mix well to coat the green beans with the oil and garlic. Add your sauce and allow to simmer for a couple minutes, uncovered, to thicken the sauce. One desired tenderness is reached they're ready to eat! Stir so the Sriracha glaze coats the green beans and dive in!
- See post for tasty serving suggestions and meal pairings. Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
I’m so excited for y’all to try these sassy, spicy green beans!
As written these garlic green beans are vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free if you use compliant soy sauce. Woot!
They can also be made in a single pan making this one-pan wonder a great weeknight option.
If you get a chance to try these spicy sriracha green beans, let me know! Leave some love in the comment form below or tag your photos with @peasandcrayons on Instagram so I can happy dance over your creation!
ga-ga for green beans?
We have a bunch of tasty green bean salad recipes here on the site!
From our crazy popular Greek Green Bean Salad to our Summery Farmer’s Market Chopped Salad with Creamy Avocado Dill Dressing… there is so much deliciousness to try next!
Craving a classic? A Beautiful Plate’s Green Beans Almondine looks absolutely fantastic!
I also make a Chickpea Chopped Salad featuring green beans that rocks our socks!
Hi! Just a quick point of order: I think in Step 1 you mean to say “boil” the beans for 3 minutes, not “blanch”. We don’t actually blanch the beans (by putting them in ice water!) until Step 3, where you specify they should only sit in the ice water for a minute or two. The instructions are a little unclear if you’re not familiar with how that process works!
Aside from that, the beans are super tasty! 🙂
How would you suggest reheating the green beans?
Hi Margie! I like warming them on a pan/skillet over medium high heat. I usually leave them out for 20-30 minutes to take the chill off and then sauté them until warmed through.
I didn’t have sweet chili sauce so I used garlic chili sauce. Turned out amazing good!!
The sauce is delicious. I used asparagus instead of green beans but the result was the same, a great tasting side dish. It was actually very easy to make, too.
I love green beans (not exaggerating :->) What a lovely way to give them a bit of a kick. I did not have any sweet chili sauce but did not miss it (although I imagine it would work great)
I made these for dinner so awesome can’t say enough about them. Full of flavor go well with many dishes. There definitely an 11 no 10. Truly a game changer.
Question.. I would like to make these with pork chops, do you have a recipe suggestion?
Hi Jodi! I’ve never made pork chops before but I’m sure the pairing would be great! xoxo
Thanks Jenn. I make these tonight and they were awesome. Will be making them often and will definitely have to make more at a time!!
These green beans were delicious!
Looks so yum! Love how easy this is, can’t wait to try it!
My family loves green beans and we LOVED this spicy version. Kids asked for it again on Thanksgiving!! So much better than the traditional creamy green bean casserole… this one has some ZIP!!
Thanks Lisalia! I’m stoked y’all enjoyed it! You totally have me wanting to try it alongside our Thanksgiving spread too.
Made for dinner. Really good. Thank you!
So happy you enjoyed it, Edna. Thanks!
I haven’t made these in forever but its on my grocery list now! 🙂
This is mouthwatering! Way to take a tasty side and kick it up a notch! I know this is a side dish but I could eat this as a main dish!
I’ve totally made it dinner before, lol! So glad you’re loving it!
These green beans are amazing!! Made as written without the sesame seeds and only a 1/2 tsp of sesame oil and the rest olive oil. The sauce is ridiculously good!! It could go on anything!! Had these with pork chops and white rice!
My green beans turned out so spicy (I added extra sriracha sauce) and I loved it 🥵😋 Used this as a side for tofu and white rice. I also cooked them longer than 3 minutes (about 8 minutes). Definitely a new family favorite dish.
This recipe is easy & so good. I didn’t have sesame oil, olive oil worked just fine. Will definitely be making this again. Thanks for sharing.
D-licious! I didn’t have sweet chili sauce, so substituted Caribbean hot sauce from a lady at church along with a touch of honey. This was so flavourful and fresh! Thank you!
I love spicy green beans. This is my favorite way to eat them!
I have made this twice. Believe it or not, my two teenage sons requested it, and it is the second and only time I can remember not having left over veggies from a meal. It is a family favorite. Thanks for sharing.
Ok, I never rate recipes because I use them for inspiration and make my own thing. But THIS was so good exactly as written. I didn’t change a thing. The sauce was delicious! Thank you. I can’t wait to look through your other recipes.
We lived in Szechuan China for a while and these were a perfect match for our favourite bean recipe.
Super easy and yummy! The sauce has the perfect amount of kick and is insanely flavorful. Couldn’t get enough — definitely going to be a crave-worthy go-to side in my house.
Oh yeah! This looks delicious!
I could seriously eat them every week! Thanks Karly!
YES!!!! As soon as I saw these I knew I needed them in my life.
I whipped up a batch last night and ate the whole lot for myself!!! Just me and a bowl of beans 😉
SO GOOD!!!
Thank you for a great recipe…LOVE IT!!! AND PINNING IT!!!
I could make a meal out of these green beans alone! So good!