American Chop Suey

While Chop Suey is the mnemonic for Chinese cooking , the American Chop Suey is a concoction made up by the Americans. When the railroad tracks were being laid in San Francisco, the chinese migrant cooks served up a chopsuey made with vegetables, beans , chicken/pork and noodles. The Americans, used to eating every thing with ketchup, would add ketchup to this chopsuey. This was hence known as the American Chop Suey.

American Chop Suey
¼ cup each of julienned carrots, capsicum, mushrooms, spring onions, cabbage
4 tbsp bean sprouts,
2 tbsp oil, 200 ml tomato puree, 4 tbsp tomato ketchup, 1 tbsp soy sauce, salt and pepper to taste,
2 tbsp corn starch blended with water
fresh cut noodles, deep fried.
Heat oil, stir fry all the veggies for 2 mins, Mis tomato puree, ketchup , soy sauce, salt , pepper and add to the veggies. As soon as the mixture bubbles, add the cornflour till sauce thickens.
In a dish place fried noodles, serve veggies over it . Top with a fried egg.

For a non vegetarian version , you can add thinly sliced marinated chicken ( for 200 gms chicken beat 1 egg and 2 tbsp cornflour and salt pepper to taste. Keep covered for 10 minutes and strir fry.)or mince or prawns. All all of it . Just stirfry the chicken / prawns before adding the vegetables. Cook till almost done, before adding the sauces.



You will find the recipe for fresh noodles in this blog.