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Chicken Chop Suey

Recipe by Connie Veneracion
Stir fried bits and pieces of vegetables, and meat or seafood tossed with a little sauce. That's chop suey. In this chicken chop suey recipe, we've added mushrooms and quail eggs too.
Tip: Seasoning lightly but frequently as ingredients are added into the pan ensures more depth of flavor.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine American Chinese, Chinese
Servings 4 people
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Ingredients
  

Sauce

  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 1 ½ tablespoons oyster sauce
  • 2 tablespoons Shaoxing rice wine
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon sesame seed oil
  • 1 heaping tablespoon tapioca starch or potato starch or corn starch

To stir fry

  • 2 tablespoons cooking oil
  • salt
  • pepper

Instructions
 

  • Wipe the chicken thigh fillets with paper towels then cut into thin strips. Set aside.
  • Crush and peel the garlic.
  • Peel and finely slice the shallots.
  • Cut the asparagus spears into two-inch lengths.
  • Peel the carrot and cut into thin slices.
  • String the green beans and cut into one-inch lengths.
  • Deseed the bell pepper and dice.
  • Cut the cabbage into half-inch wide strips (discard the core).
  • Peel the quail eggs.
  • Cut the shiitake mushrooms into quarters.
  • Separate any joined pieces of oyster mushrooms.
  • In a bowl, stir together all the ingredients for the sauce.
  • Heat the cooking oil in a wok.
  • Saute the garlic and shallots for half a minute.
    Sauteeing garlic and shallots / stir frying chicken
  • Turn up the heat and spread the chicken in the hot oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  • Stir fry just until the chicken is no longer pink.
  • Add the carrot slices (they take longest to cook so they go in first). Stir fry for half a minute.
    Adding carrot, asparagus, bell peppers to chicken to make chop suey
  • Add the bell pepper, asparagus and green beans. Sprinkle with more salt and pepper. Stir fry for one minute.
  • Add the cabbage and sprinkle in some salt and pepper. Stir fry for half a minute.
    Chicken abd vegetables in wok
  • Add the quail eggs, shiitake and oyster mushrooms. Again, sprinkle with a bit of salt and pepper. Stir fry for half a minute.
  • Stir the sauce to loosen the starch that settled in the bottom then pour into the wok with the chicken and vegetables.
  • Cook, stirring, until the sauce is thick and clear.
  • Taste and adjust the seasonings, if needed.
Keyword Stir Fry, Vegetables