CHICKEN CHOP SUEY

Chicken Chop Suey Recipe

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Chop suey (Chinese: 杂碎; universal Chinese: 雜碎; pinyin: zá suì; actually “diverse pieces”) is a dish in American Chinese cuisine and other forms of abroad Chinese cuisine, consisting of meat (beef, fish,chicken, pork or prawns,) and eggs, cooked rapidly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage and bound in a starch-thickened sauce. It is occasionally served with rice but can become the Chinese-American form of chow mein with the extension of stir-fried noodles.
Chop suey has become a salient part of American Chinese cuisine, Pilipino cuisine, Canadian Chinese cuisine, German Chinese cuisine, Polynesian cuisine, Pakistan Chinese Cuisine. In Indonesian Chinese cuisine it is well known as cap cai (雜菜, “mixed vegetables”) and generally collection of vegetables.

Chop suey is generally accept to have been created in America by Chinese Americans people,

but the anthropologist Anderson E.N. concludes that the dish is based on tsap seui (“various leftovers”), common in Taishan (Toisan), a sector of Province Guangdong (Canton), the home of many early Chinese migrants to the U.S. This “became the ill-famed ‘chop suey’ of third-string Chinese restaurants in the western world, but it commence life as a good if ordinary dish among the specialist vegetable growers of the area. At the end of the day, they would stir-fry the small shoots, thinning, and unsold vegetables-up to ten species in a dish!” The Hong Kong doctor Li Shu-fan as well reported that he knew it in Toisan in the 1890s
The long list of colorful and adverse stories about the creator of chop suey is, in the altercation of the food analysts Alan Davidson, “a prime sample of culinary mythology” and representative of popular foods.
One history claims that it was created by Chinese Americans cook working on the railroad transcontinental, in the 19th century. Another example is that it was invented during Qing Dynasty premier Li Hongzhang’s visit to the U.S in 1896 by his chef, who tried to create a meal suitable for both Chinese and American palates. Another example is that Li wandered to a local Chinese restaurant after the kitchen of hotel had closed, where the chef, ashamed that he had nothing to present or offer, arise with the new dish using scraps of leftovers. Earlier recent analysis by the professor Renqui Yu led him to achieve that “no prove can be found in available historical records to support the story that Li Hung Chang ate chicken chop suey in the United States. Yu speculates that sharps Chinese American restaurant owners gain advantage of the publicity surrounding his visit to enhance chop suey as Li’s favorite.

This recipe for chicken chop suey appears from chef book author Deh-ta Hsiung,

Who compose that it is “the classicistic “Chicken Chop Suey’ dish that advertise Chinese dishes to the western world at the end of the 19th century”. It is relatively incredible to think that a dish that did not even created in China itself, but thousands of miles far away in San Francisco, U.S. should have revealed one of the world’s famous cuisines.

CHICKEN CHOP SUEY FOR 4 PERSON

Ingredients for chicken chop suey:

  • 4 - 6 ounces (115 - 175 grams) chicken meat, slightingly shredded
  •  1 Tsp salt
  • 1/4 egg white
  • 1 tsp thick corn flour paste - (1 division of corn flour with 1.3 division of cold water)
  • About 1/2 pint (300 ml) seasoned oil.
  • 1/2 tsp thinly mince garlic (elective)
  • 1 tsp finely shredded fresh ginger
  • 3 - 4 spring onions, finely shredded
  • 4 - 6 ounces (115 - 175 grams) grain sprouts
  • 1 small green pepper, cored and implanted, finely shredded
  • 1/2 tsp beaker (superfine) sugar
  • 1 tsp light soy sauce
  • 1/2 tsp Chinese rice wine
  • 2 tsp stock
  • Pinch of MSG (electivel)
  • Some drops of sesame oil

PREPARATION OF CHICKEN CHOP SUEY:

In a large resalable plastic bag, combine soy sauce and brown sugar; with the addition of chicken. Seal the bag and put into coat; refrigerate for 20-30Min.

Mix the chicken shreds finely with a small amount of the salt, the egg white and about 1 tsp corn flour/cornstarch paste. Shrink them in warm oil, stir to isolate, then pull out and drain them.

Drain the waste oil, leaving about 2 tbsp in the frying pan, stir-fry all the vegetables for almost 1 minute, add the rest of salt and the sugar, mix well, then add the chicken with the soy sauce and rice wine, stir-fry for more 1 minute, and add the stock and MSG, if using; At last thicken the gravy with the rest of corn flour paste, Decorate with the sesame oil and serve hot.
You Can also serve with rice if desired.

TOTAL TIME: PREPARATION: 15 MIN. + MARINATING COOK: 25 MIN.

YIELD: 6

NUTRITION FACTS:

Chicken Chop Suey (1 cup)

  • calories: 205,
  • fat: 6g,
  • carbs: 17g,
  • protein: 21g

 

Chicken Chop Suey (homemade) (1 cup)

  • calories: 136,
  • fat: 5g,
  • carbs: 13g,
  • protein: 11g

Why eat chop suey?

The chop Suey is a very healthy recipe because it has many fresh vegetables, it don´t include a lot of sauces and its preparation is made with a few olive oil. furthermore it have soy bean that is very good digestion.
additionally it has broccoli which is a vegetable that gather many nutrients and a fewer calories. It is rich in vitamin A and C. furthermore it has iron, vitamin B1, B2, B6, calcium, folic acid, potassium, iodine, cooper, manganese and zinc. This kind of vegetable helps fight constipation and contributes to good skin and mucous membranes.

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