Old Fashioned Chop Suey recipe
This simple Old Fashioned Chop Suey recipe is popular Chinese stir fry dish that is made with some type of protein that is sauté along with mung beans (bean sprouts) and vegetables and is a very popular dish served in most Asian restaurants today worldwide!
Wanting another similar recipe? Try my Chinese Chicken Cabbage Stir Fry
This recipe is old fashioned since it has less vegetables than the average chop suey recipe. I have omitted the mushrooms and celery but kept the cabbage, carrots and mung beans… however it still comes in this delicious homemade and traditional chop suey sauce!
INGREDIANTS IN CHOP SUEY
You can put just about any Chinese vegetables that you have on hand into chop suey!
Chicken, you can use any meat protein or leave it out depending on your taste.
I used for this recipe: Mung Beans / Bean Sprouts, Cabbage, Onions.
Other vegetables that work well in chop suey are: celery, zucchini, mushrooms, peppers.
SAUCE
- Corn starch
- Hot water
- Oyster sauce
- Shaoxing wine
- Soya sauce
- Pepper
HOW TO COOK BEAN SPROUTS CHINESE STYLE
- Start by slicing or dicing the chicken to marinade. Add all Chicken marinade ingredients as seen in the recipe card below and marinade while you are preparing the vegetables.
- Next, prepare the sauce for cooking the vegetables
- Add 2 tbsp of vegetable oil to a hot wok and cook the chicken, remove and set aside
- Add in the garlic and sauté for a min till fragrant then set aside.
- Back in the wok add the vegetables, leaving the mung beans out and toss in the sauce
- Toss to coat then add back in the chicken and cook till the vegetables are near soft
- Toss in the mung beans and cook all together till the mung beans are transparent
- Enjoy with white rice!
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Old Fashioned Chop Suey recipe
Ingredients
- 2 chicken breasts, diced or sliced
- Chicken marinade
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tsp light soya sauce
- 1 tsp oyster sauce
- 1 tsp shaoxing wine
- 1 tsp corn starch=
- Vegetables
- 1 carrots, diced or sliced
- 1 onion, diced or sliced
- 1 cup cabbage, diced or sliced
- 2 garlic, minced
- 1 package of bean sprout
- Sauce
- 2 tbsp light soya sauce
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 5 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 tbsp hot water
- 4 tbsp vegetable oil