Last Updated on October 12, 2023 by Ed Joven
How to cook Filipino Chop suey
Chop suey Recipe – There are lots of Chinese influence dishes that are popular in the Philippines. Chop Suey Recipe is one of them. Chopsuey simply means “mixed pieces” since it is cooked with various combinations of bite-size stir-fried veggies in a thickened starchy sauce. It is composed of chicken, pork, shrimp and vegetables such as cabbage, celery, bean sprouts, and carrots. You may also include some other veggies according to your liking.
To make your Chop suey more flavorful, you may use meat broth instead of water and to make it more special, just add quail eggs, chicken liver, and baby corn.
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Ingredients and Cooking Procedure of ChopSuey Recipe: |
Chop suey Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/4 kilo broccoli cut into florets
- 1/4 kilo cauliflower cut into florets
- 1 large carrot peeled and sliced
- 1/2 cup chicharo snow peas
- 1/4 small cabbage cut into 1-inch thick strips
- 1 cup Chinese pechay
- 1 small red bell pepper seeded and cut into small pieces
- 1 small bell pepper seeded and cut into small pieces
- 1/4 cup button mushrooms
- 1 small onion peeled and sliced
- 2 cloves garlic peeled and minced
- 1 cup chicken thigh fillets cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- ½ cup chicken liver cut into 1-inch cubes
- 5 pieces baby corn halved crosswise
- 10 quail eggs hard boiled and peeled
- 1 chicken cube
- 1 cup shrimps
- 1-1/2 teaspoons corn starch
- 2 tablespoon Canola oil
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a Large sauce pan, add 3 1/2 cups of water, 1 teaspoon salt and simmer.
- Also prepare a bowl with water and lots of ice for your vegetable ice bath.
- Add carrots, bell pepper, young corn and snow peas (chicharo) cook for about 2 minutes.
- Using a slotted spoon, remove the veggies from sauce pan and place it into a bowl of ice bath.
- Add cauliflower and broccoli to the sauce pan and cook for about 3 minutes
- Using a slotted spoon, remove the broccoli and cauliflower from sauce pan and place it into a bowl of ice bath.
- Dissolve the Chicken Cube using water from the poaching liquid.
- Set aside and reserve the poaching liquid.
- Drain vegetables from the ice bath when they are cold.
- Pour and heat Canola oil in a wok or large sauce pan.
- Saute onions and garlic and cook until softened.
- Add the sliced chicken and cook for 3 minutes.
- Add the chicken liver and continue to cook for about 2 minutes or until the liver is cooked.
- Pour the dissolved chicken cube and mix.
- Pour 2 cups of the reserved poaching liquid and oyster sauce.
- Cover the pan and bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes.
- Add the hardboiled quail eggs and mushrooms.
- Add the shrimp and cook for 1 minute.
- Drain the vegetables then add to the mixture
- Gently stir the veggies to combine, and cook for about 5 minutes.
- Add salt and pepper.
- Add cabbage and chinese pechay.
- Combine 1/4 cup of cold water and corn starch in a small bowl and stir until corn starch is dissolved.
- Add the dissolved corn starch.
- Gently stir the Chopsuey mixture.
- Add corn starch mixture to pan, stirring gently.
- Cook for about 2 minutes until the sauce has thickened.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Remove from the sauce pan or wok and place in a serving dish.
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Nutrition
Try our version of ChopSuey Recipe this is an easy stir-fry of colorful veggies with thick, delicious sauce. A nutritious and an excellent vegetable dish for any special occasions.
Filipino Vegetable Recipes:
- Ginisang Pechay Recipe
- Pinakbet Recipe
- Kangkong Salad Recipe
- Ginisang Baguio Beans Recipe
- Healthy Bake Broccoli Cheese Recipe
- Sinigang na Baboy Recipe
I never liked eating vegetables as a kid, chopsuey is the reason why I started eating vegtables. I never knew vegetables could be so delicious
The recipe is amazing. I felt that the instructions was way too wordy. Also, shrimp wasn’t in the ingredients list and it was in the instructions. Overall, great recipe. I just had to tweak it myself.
Looks Devine vegetable in a light sauce …Awesome.
This looks so good. I made a copy of the recipe so I can have my family to try cooking it. Thanks.
This looks delicious. I love Asian cuisines of many types, but often refrain from cooking it myself as the dishes often require many ingredients I don’t normally have in my pantry. This dish is nice as it really only has oyster sauce as an ingredient I wouldn’t normally have; I could easily find room for it 🙂
I love veggies so this dish looks absolutely delicious. Can’t wait to eat this one. Thanks for sharing.
This looks amazing!!! I love veggies and i absolutely love Chopsuey! I cant wait to try this recipe!
I would call this dish a good vegetable stir-fry, not a chopsuey. Got to have the bean sprouts! Cheers
Very Delicious…tnx and more power..