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VIDEORECIPE Authentic chop suey recipe
The essential ingredient for a great Chop Suey sauce is Chinese cooking wine. All Chinese restaurants use it!light on the meat, this is healthy and adaptable to whatever you've got in your fridge!
Ingredients
OPTIONAL TENDERISED CHICKEN
- 180 g oz chicken breast(thinly sliced)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda bi-carb optional
SAUCE OR USE CHARLIE
- 1 tablespoon cornflour corn starch
- 11⁄2 tablespoon light soy sauce
- all purpose soy
- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon Chinese Cooking Wine OR Mirin
- 1⁄2 teaspoon sesame oil (optional)
- Dash of white pepper (or black)
- 3⁄4 Cup water ( ml)
STIR FRY
- 11⁄2 tablespoon vegetable oil (or other cooking oil)
- 2 cloves garlic(finely chopped)
- 1⁄2 onion(sliced white or brown yellow)
- 5 stems choy sum (or other Asian greens)
- 1 medium carrot
- 1⁄2 Cup sliced mushrooms shiitake is authentic but any will do
- 1 Cup bean sprouts
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Directions
VELVET" CHICKEN (OPTIONAL,)
Place chicken in a bowl, sprinkle over baking soda. Use your fingers to mix then set aside for 20 minutes, no longer than 30 minutes (can get too tender). Rinse well, pat excess water with paper towels, set aside (see video).
PREP INGREDIENTS:
Sauce: Place cornflour and soy sauce in a bowl. Mix until lump free. Then add remaining Sauce ingredients and stir.
Chop choy sum: Trim end off choy sum. Then cut into 7cm (3") pieces. Separate stems from leaves.Chop carrot - Peel then cut into 3cm (1.3") pieces. Then slice the pieces thinly.
STIR FRY:
Heat oil in a wok or skillet over high heat. Add garlic, stir quickly, then add onion, Cook for 1 minute, moving constantly, until onion is starting to wilt.Add chicken, cook for 1 minute until the surface changes from pink to white.
Add choy sum stems, carrot and mushrooms. Stir fry for 1 minute.
Add choy sum leaves, bean sprouts and Sauce. Stir fry for 1 to 2 minutes until the Sauce thickens to a thick syrup consistency. Vegetables should still be tender/crisp, not soggy and soft.
Serve immediately with rice (for low carb, low cal option, try Cauliflower Rice!)
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The essential ingredient for a great Chop Suey sauce is Chinese cooking wine. All Chinese restaurants use it!light on the meat, this is healthy and adaptable to whatever you've got in your fridge!
VELVET" CHICKEN (OPTIONAL,)
Place chicken in a bowl, sprinkle over baking soda. Use your fingers to mix then set aside for 20 minutes, no longer than 30 minutes (can get too tender). Rinse well, pat excess water with paper towels, set aside (see video).
PREP INGREDIENTS:
Sauce: Place cornflour and soy sauce in a bowl. Mix until lump free. Then add remaining Sauce ingredients and stir.
Chop choy sum: Trim end off choy sum. Then cut into 7cm (3") pieces. Separate stems from leaves.Chop carrot - Peel then cut into 3cm (1.3") pieces. Then slice the pieces thinly.
STIR FRY:
Heat oil in a wok or skillet over high heat. Add garlic, stir quickly, then add onion, Cook for 1 minute, moving constantly, until onion is starting to wilt.Add chicken, cook for 1 minute until the surface changes from pink to white.
Add choy sum stems, carrot and mushrooms. Stir fry for 1 minute.
Add choy sum leaves, bean sprouts and Sauce. Stir fry for 1 to 2 minutes until the Sauce thickens to a thick syrup consistency. Vegetables should still be tender/crisp, not soggy and soft.
Serve immediately with rice (for low carb, low cal option, try Cauliflower Rice!)
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