

1 tbsp cornstarch diluted in 1 cup water.1/4 chicken liver marinated in 1/2 cup milk.Even replacing the proteins with any white fleshy fish can work too.
Beef chop suey recipe filipino style how to#
This simple but amazing chopsuey recipe (s) will teach you how to cook chopsuey chicken or pork, depending on your preferences. This is very similar to the chop suey by Panlasang Pinoy except that he uses shrimp juice for his recipe. So, anyway, today being a Saturday, I’m sharing a recipe on how to cook Chopsuey. i havent been back in 20 years! How to Cook Chopsuey I’m not sure if that small stand is still there. I used to work in an NGO near Quezon Avenue and we used to drop by this place and take it out for lunch (and dinner). But my favorite (in my memory) was this small take out store in Kamuning Quezon City that serves it over rice and topped with crispy lechong kawali. They serve Chopsuey Rice with a piece of fried chicken. There’s this restaurant in Baguio I used to drop by once in a while when I was a student. I wax poetic with this vegetable dish because as a child, i used to think that this is a dish that is reserved for the rich – chopsuey being made of highland vegetables and as a lowlander who lives across the sea, these highland vegetables costs a fortune. So the Chopsuey Saturday ritual rings true!

According to the ever-reliable Wiki though, it means “miscellaneous leftovers”. In the Philippines, chopsuey is sometimes a derogatory word that means haphazard, “halo-halo” or a mix of everything and to derisively mean “not pure”. Filipinos regard it as one of their staple dishes and typically eaten with rice. Hence, Chop Suey (or as we have it, chopsuey) is a classic American-Chinese dish that has been widely adopted all over over the world (including China, lol). Since the word is Chinese sounding, it is usually assumed to be from China but according to a quick net research, it’s actually invented by Chinese immigrants in the US of A. You know I always get a kick about food and how the words intersect with culture.

Chopsuey or Chop Suey is always a good meal candidate for this reason. On Saturdays, mommies have to clean up the refrigerator and cook all of the remaining vegetables, meat, and leftovers to prepare it for the incoming Sunday market haul. Do you know how to cook chopsuey Pinoy style? How do you like your Chopsuey? Over the years, the recipe of chopsuey has become heavily personalized to fit the taste preferences of whoever is preparing it, and in the process, the ingredients started to vary.
