Filipino Food: Chop Suey

Chop suey (simplified Chinese: 杂碎; traditional Chinese: 雜碎; pinyin: zá suì; literally "assorted pieces") is a Chinese dish consisting of meat (often chicken, fish, beef, prawns, or pork) and eggs, cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery and bound in a starch-thickened sauce. It is typically served with rice but can become the Chinese-American form of chow mein with the addition of stir-fried noodles.

Chop suey has become a prominent part of American Chinese cuisine, Filipino cuisine, Canadian Chinese cuisine, German Chinese cuisine, Indian Chinese cuisine, and Polynesian cuisine. In Indonesian Chinese cuisine it is known as cap cai (雜菜, "mixed vegetables") and mainly consists of vegetables.

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Ingredients

• 1/4 kilo pork, sliced into small pieces
• 1/4 kilo shrimps, shelled, deveined and halved
• 1/4 kilo chicken liver and gizzard, sliced to small pieces
• 1/4 kilo cauliflower, broken to bite size
• 1/4 kilo string beans
• 1/4 kilo snow peas (sitsaro)
• 1/4 kilo cabbage, cut into squares
• 2 stalks of leeks, cut into 2 inches long pieces
• 3 stalks celery, cut into 2 inches long pieces
• 5 cloves garlic, diced

• 2 onions, diced
• 1 carrot, sliced thinly
• 1 piece red bell pepper, cut in strips
• 1 piece green bell pepper. cut in strips
• 2 tablespoons of cornstarch, dissolved in 1/4 cup of water
• 2 cups chicken stock (broth)
• 3 tablespoons of sesame oil
• 3 tablespoons of patis (fish sauce)
• 4 tablespoons of corn oil or vegetable oil
• Salt to taste

Procedure

1. In a big pan or wok, saute’ garlic and onions
   
   
2. Then add pork saute’ for 3 minutes
   
   
3. Add the chicken liver and gizzard, continue to saute’s for another 3 minutes.
   
   
4. Add 1 cup of Chicken stock, pinch of salt and simmer for 10 minutes or until pork and chicken giblets are cooked.
   
   
5. Add the shrimp then add and mix all the vegetables.
   
   
6. Add the remaining 1 cup of Chicken stock, patis and the dissolved cornstarch.
   
   
7. Cook for about 5 minutes or until the vegetables are done.
   
   
8. Add the sesame oil.
   
   
9. Salt and pepper to taste.
   
   
10. Serve hot with rice.
    
    
11. Read more: http://www.pinoyrecipe.net/chopsuey-recipe/#ixzz2A4Lqc4Ia

Sources:
http://www.pinoyrecipe.net/chopsuey-recipe/#axzz2A4FV6aZ4
http://www.pinoyrecipe.net/chopsuey-recipe/#axzz2A4FV6aZ4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_suey