Easy Chop Suey

This Easy Chop Suey Salad or “Vegetable Chop Suey Recipe” is an overload of vegetable goodness. A mix of a number of plants that’ll boost the body’s immunity and health. All you need are onions, garlic, carrots chayote, corn, cauliflower, broccoli, chicharo, cabbage, bell pepper, with the addition of seasonings like salt, pepper, fish sauce, oyster sauce, and proteins such as shrimp, chicken breast, chicken liver and heart, and quail eggs to really pack up the meal.

Easy Chop Suey Recipe :

• 11 pieces shrimp
• ½ cup hot water
• 1 piece chicken breast ( sliced thinly )
• ¼ cup chicken liver and heart
• 1 piece onion ( chopped )
• 2 cloves garlic ( minced )
• 200 ml water
• 1 piece carrot ( sliced )
• 1 piece chayote ( sliced )
• 6 pieces young corn ( sliced )
• Slurry ( 2 tablespoons cornstarch diluted in water )
• 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
• 1 piece cauliflower ( chopped )
• 1 piece broccoli ( chopped )
• 11 pieces chicharo
• 1 cup napa cabbage ( chopped )
• 1 piece red bell pepper ( chopped )
• Pepper to taste
• Fish sauce to taste
• 11 pieces quail eggs
• 4 – 5 tablespoons oil

Steps:

1. Prepare the shrimps, remove the head shells, and tails. Set the meat aside. In another bowl, place the shells, head and tails in and pour in ½ cup warm water. Set aside.
2. In a pan with a bit of oil, cook the shrimp until it changes in color and set aside. Next, cook the chicken breast for 2 – 3 minutes. Then saute in onions then garlic until fragrant.
3. Add in chicken liver and heart until it changes in color. Pour in 200 ml water and the strained shrimp broth, carrots, chayote, and corn. Give it a little mix.
4. Add the slurry and mix well. Add in oyster sauce, cauliflower, broccoli, and chicharo. Stir before adding the cabbage, bell pepper, pepper, and fish sauce. Mix then cover for 30 seconds.
5. Add back the shrimp, then quail eggs, stir then serve.

What is Chop Suey?

This colorful dish is believed to have been created by Chinese Americans, or rather by immigrants from the Guangdong Province of China in the 1890’s. While there are a lot of accounts of this dish being made in the 19th century, there also stories of this being created during the Qing Dynasty when it was served to the diplomat Li Hongzang visiting the United States. This is said to be invented as a meal that would suit both Chinese and American palates. Though there are also a lot more similar stories to how it was founded. No evidence could be found on how it actually came to be. A Chinese dish but argued to be American. An old fashioned chop suey recipe would include a mix of chicken or other meats like pork, fish, beef, or shrimp, with eggs, celery, cabbage, bean sprouts, mixed with savory sauce thickened with starch served over rice, or in the form of stir-fried noodles or chow mein.

How to make Chop Suey

How to make the Filipino version of the American-Chinese pork chop suey? Starting with preparing the shrimps, removing the heads, shells, and tails which will then be used to make a quick broth by mixing these with hot water. The meat of the shrimp is then sautéed until it changes in color. Take these aside to cook the chicken breasts until it also changes in color. Mix these with aromatics like onions and garlic until it smells fragrant. Then add in the chicken liver and heart which really adds the health benefits like iron, vitamin A, B, and k12, selenium, and zinc, it also adds to the texture. Once these have changed in color, pour in the strained shrimp broth. Then more water, as well as vegetables like carrots, chayote, and corn. Mix these together, letting these simmer for a few minutes just until it’s slightly tender.

Then to make the chop suey sauce, all you need to do is pour in a slurry made of cornstarch and a bit of water. Give this a quick stir before mixing in the oyster sauce, cauliflower, broccoli, and chicharo. These vegetables are separated from the harder ( vegetables that take a longer time to cook ) vegetables as these will only need a few seconds to turn tender. Then add in the cabbage, bell pepper, some pepper, and fish sauce for an added saltiness. Cover for a few seconds or just until the cabbage wilts. Give this a taste and add more oyster sauce or fish sauce if needed. Add back the shrimp and for more protein, add some boiled quail eggs. Mix these up and serve with some rice on the side.

Questions

• Is vegetable chop suey healthy?

It’s one of the healthiest ‘hot salads’ you can find. Filled with a good amount of vegetables and protein. From the fibrous leafy vegetables, to all the nutritional benefits of the cruciferous vegetables like cauliflower and broccoli, the iron and B vitamins from the chicken liver. Saying that all of the ingredients are nutrient dense with each having their own benefit to the body. From the skin, blood, immunity, neurological, and even can help prevent certain cancers.

• How to make this a Keto Chop Suey Recipe?

While most of the chop suey ingredients are keto-friendly there are still some ingredients that you might need to replace. 

• For example, the cornstarch should be replaced with xanthan gum or tapioca starch. 
• Omit oyster sauce and use keto-friendly oyster sauce or you can also make your own using shiitake mushrooms.
• Also use less oil if you can.

• Using other meats?

• While the chicken chop suey recipe is the usual choice of many. You can use other meats like beef chunks for a “Beef Chop Suey Recipe“. You can also use ground beef for a “Ground Beef Chop Suey Recipe“. You can also omit the chicken liver if you’d like.
• Another option is using ground pork or small pork chunks for a “Pork Chop Suey Casserole“.
• For another poultry option, you can use turkey already precooked or grounded for a “Turkey Chop Suey“.
• For those wanting a less ‘meaty ‘option, use more shrimp, squid, or filet fish (best if it’s boneless) for a “Fish Chop Suey” dish.

• What to pair it with?

Complete your chop suey meal by topping it over rice, or over noodles to make chop suey noodles, or stir fry it with egg noodles-replacing the chicken with pork chunks to make a “Pork Chop Suey Chow Mein recipe” that’ll surely fill you up.

Try our other Yummy version of Filipino chopsuey recipes : 

• Stir-fried Cabbage with Pork Belly  
• Ginisang Repolyo with Giniling Recipe ( sauteed cabbage with pork )
• Ginisang Gulay ( Sauteed vegetables Filipino style )
• Vegetable Pancake
• Stir Fry Vegetable with Tofu

Easy Chopsuey Resipi: (Tagalog)

Mga Sankap:

• 11 piraso hipon
• ½ tasa mainit na tubig
• 1 piraso dibdib ng manok ( hiniwa ng maninipis )
• ¼ tasa puso at atay ng manok
• 1 piraso sibuyas ( hiniwa )
• 2 butil ng bawang ( tinadtad )
• 200 ml tubig
• 1 piraso karot ( hiniwa )
• 1 piraso sayote ( hiniwa )
• 6 piraso maliit na mais ( hiniwa )
• Slurry ( 2 kutsarang cornstarch hinalo ng konting tubig )
• 2 kutsarang oyster sauce
• 1 piraso cauliflower ( hiniwa )
• 1 piraso broccoli ( hiniwa )
• 11 piraso ng chicharo
• 1 tasa ng repolyo ( hiniwa )
• 1 piraso pulang paminta ( hiniwa )
• Paminta panlasa
• Patis panlasa
• 11 piraso itlog ng pugo
• 4 – 5 kustaritang mantika

Paano Lutuin :

1. Ihanda ang mga hipon, tanggalin ang mga ulo, balat, at buntot. Itabi ang laman. Sa ibang mangkok, ilagay ang mga balat, ulo, at buntot at buhusan ng ½ tasa ng tubig at itabi.
2. Sa kawali an may konting mantika, lutuin ang mga hipon hanggang mag iba ng kulay. Itabi. Pagkatapos, lutuin ang dibdib ng manok ng 2 – 3 minuto. Iluto dito ang mga sibuyas at bawang hanggang bumango.
3. Ihalo ang atay at puso ng manok at lutuin ang mga hanggang mangbago ang kulay. Ibuhos dito ang 200 ml tubig, sinala na sabaw ng hipon, karot, sayote, at mais. Haluin ng konti.
4. Haluan ng slurry. Isama dito ang oyster sauce, cauliflower, broccoli, at chicharo. Ihalo ang repolyo, pulang paminta, paminta, at patis. Takpan ng 30 segundo.
5. Ihalo dito ang hipon at itlog ng pugo bago ihanda.