Chicken Chop Suey

Chicken Chop Suey – Quick and Easy Chicken Chop Suey recipe with juicy tender chicken slices, colourful vegetables in a delicious thick sauce. Learn how to make at home in 20 minutes with our easy to follow instructions.

What is Chop Suey?

Chop Suey is a very popular American-Chinese cuisine usually made of meat, seafood, and vegetables in thick starchy sauce. Every country has its own version of Chop Suey. In Burma, we called it ” Htamin Paung ” and you can find it in all most all Chinese restaurants across Burma. In Rangoon-style Chop Suey, we usually add extra tofu and quail eggs. I’ll share my Rangoon Chop Suey recipe soon on the website. So please stay tuned!

What I love about this dish is, I can put any of my favourite vegetables and protein. That is one of the best way to use up all the leftover vegetables from the fridge.

Chop Suey is one of our family’s go-to Chinese stir fry recipes that everyone loves. I’ve learned this recipe from my dad, and he usually made it with loads of prawns, vegetables, and boiled quail eggs for us. When I was a kid I didn’t eat many vegetables but when my dad make chop suey at home, I can eat up every bit of it. This dish is so satisfying and filling and if you haven’t tried it at home, I highly recommend trying it at least once. You will be amazed by how easy and tasty the result come out!

What goes in the dish:

Protein:

I usually like to make this dish with chicken and prawns. I used chicken breast meat in this recipe. You can use chicken thigh, prawns, squid, or any of your favourite meat. To keep the meat moist and tender, use Chinese velveting method by marinating with light soy sauce, sesame oil, corn starch and baking soda.

Vegetables:

In most restaurants button mushrooms, baby corn, carrot, snap peas, pak choy, bok choy, bean sprouts are mostly added. If you can’t find all vegetables, don’t worry. Feel free to add any of your favourite stir fry vegetables.

Sauce:

Thick starchy delicious stir fry sauce is the key part of the dish. You will need a few simple seasonings sauces, I usually add light soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil, and white pepper. Add chicken stock to bring more umami flour to the sauce. You can use corn starch or potato starch(flour) or tapioca starch to thicken the gravy. If you don’t have chicken stock in hand, you can add vegetable stock or water to the sauce. Make sure to mix all the sauce ingredients in one bowl before you start your stir fry.

You can add a tablespoon of Chinese Shaoxing wine in the sauce mix to taste more flavour to the dish but it’s optional in this recipe.

Vegetarian:

For the vegetarian option, you can use firm tofu instead of meat. Cut tofu into small cubes. First, saute` the tofu cubes 2-3 minutes until light brown, then you can add in stir fry. In the Chop Suey sauce, you can use vegetarian oyster sauce or mushroom sauce instead of oyster sauce. You can also substitute vegetable stock instead of chicken stock.

Quick cooking process

As this dish is a fast stir fry dish, gather all the ingredients, and prepare before you start frying. First, start with the chicken marinade and mix all the chop suey sauce in a bowl. Stir fry the chicken slices and follow with garlic and vegetables. ( Add the hard vegetables first then follow with the soft ones. ) Pour sauce mixture and ready to serve when the sauce start to get thick and glossy.

To Serve

Simply serve over cooked rice or stir fry soy sauce noodles or crispy fried noodles. I love to have a bit of chilli oil on the side.

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Here is more Delicious Chinese Recipes you can pair and make an awesome banquet dinner :

Chicken Corn Soup or Hot and Sour Soup
Salt and Pepper Beef or Crispy Shredded Beef Recipe
Wonton in Chilli Oil or Crispy Fried Wonton

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