![]() ![]() It makes my mouth water just thinking about it!Īround here, it’s hard to find an Asian restaurant that has a simple Chicken Chop Suey dish on the menu. Of course, you can order it off-menu, but it’s always with an incredulous look of surprise from the waiter like “ You want Chicken Chop Suey…?” What I love about it is, the few ingredients let the ingredients shine by themselves when doused with just a few dashes of salty soy sauce. But this recipe keeps it simple, and is just like a restaurant version I grew up with. I’m sure there are dozens of Chicken Chop Suey recipes you can make by including additional vegetables like carrots, snap peas or even cabbage. That’s it! Tossed with chicken, sprinkled with salt and pepper, then splashed with salty soy sauce. I’m a huge fan of a simple, easy, one skillet Chop Suey of simple ingredients like onions, celery, garlic and bean sprouts. Now that the holiday’s over, let’s talk Chop Suey, shall we? Chicken Chop Suey lovers, anyone? Thankfully, I’m happy to say, our 4th of July holiday was uneventful. Here, it was a hottttt 92 degrees, which is crazy, blazing hot for us.Īll our local towns had big banners of burn warnings, encouraging people to leave the fireworks to the professional, commercial displays. And, for the most part – everyone did. Which we were entirely grateful for, because we live near a heavily wooded area. It’s the perfect comfort food.This Chicken Chop Suey has few ingredients and is simple to make for a quick, easy weeknight meal.ĭid you all survive the fireworks of the 4th of July? □ In my Chicken Chop Suey 雞球炒雜碎 recipe, I’ll show you how to make smooth, soft and tender chicken pieces fried with vegetables and a delicious sauce to bind it altogether. So, in my opinion, Chop Suey 炒雜碎 comes from this line of traditional home-style Chinese dishes. We use any protein and vegetables we have in the fridge, stir-fry it and add a sauce to it. These dishes are very typical home cooked dishes. I find that Chop Suey 炒雜碎 is very similar to another Cantonese dish that is generally called Sautéed Beef on Vegetables 菜遠牛肉 (Cantonese: choy yuen gnau yoke). This dish is pretty much a stir-fry of meat and vegetables on-hand with a soy sauce slurry to combine it all together. Some of these settlers opened up restaurants and found that locals didn’t eat organ meats so they replaced them with beef, chicken and pork. ![]() ![]() And the word “Suey 碎” means broken pieces. The word “Chop 雜” refers to a variety of organ meats. To save money, many of these settlers would make stir-fries from organ meats and vegetables on hand. Early Chinese settlers were predominantly Cantonese from Taishan, Guangdong. Some history first…the term “chop suey” came from the United States in the 1800’s during the California Gold Rush. And it was just as I thought I had eaten this dish all my life and I didn’t know it was Chop Suey! And I also did some research on chicken chop suey beforehand so I had an idea of what it was but I just needed to verify. We ordered from an authentic Chinese-Canadian restaurant. I ordered this dish once in my life and it was for the sole purpose of writing this recipe. Chicken Chop Suey 雞球炒雜碎 (Cantonese: gai kow chow chap sui) is not authentic Chinese food? I’m not so sure about that. ![]()
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