Mock Chop Suey Recipes

Steps:

• If you have a pressure cooker, it does wonders in tenderizing the pork.
• Cut pork into 1/2 inch cubes.
• Slice celery thin on diagonal.
• Slice onion into long slivers.
• Slice mushrooms into small hunks.
• Open cans of broth and bean sprouts.
• Mix corn starch into water.
• Heat oil in deep pan (pressure cooker or dutch oven), add butter and heat until it begins to bubble.
• Add pork cubes; don't stir for approximately 2 minutes to permit the pork to brown.
• Stir and add onion, celery, then mushrooms.
• Sprinkle in white pepper.
• Let cook over medium heat, stirring often, until celery and onion slivers are tender.
• Add chicken broth, soy sauce and bean sprouts.
• Now add the molassas, and stir.
• Taste for proper balance of sweet and salt flavor, adding more soy sauce or more molassas to balance flavor.
• Cover pot and simmer for at least an hour.
• If using pressure cooker, bring up to slow rocking pressure, and cook for 10 minutes.
• Let cool on its own, then remove cover and let simmer slowly for about 20 minutes.
• When pork is totally tender, and you have the proper sweet/salt flavor, mix corn starch into water and add to pot.
• Bring up heat just to the boil while stirring.
• Lower heat and let "cook" for about 15 minutes.
• Serve over long grain rice: 1 cup rice, 2 cups water, pinch of salt; bring to boil then cover and set on lowest heat setting for 25 minutes.
• I've made this chop suey for the past 45 years (yes, I'm an"older gal":).
• The chop suey freezes well.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• Heat shortening in a large, deep skillet. Sear pork until it turns white, then add onion and saute for 5 minutes. Add celery, hot water, salt and pepper. Cover skillet and simmer for 5 minutes. Add sprouts and heat to boiling.
• In a small bowl combine the cold water, cornstarch, soy sauce and sugar. Mix together and add to skillet mixture. Cook for 5 minutes, or until thickened to taste.

Steps:

• Chicken option: I sliced some chicken breast thinly and stir fried it then continued with the remaining steps and ingredients using sir frying rather than the pressure cooker. Worked wonderfully.
• Heat shortening in cooker. Dust meat with lightly with seasoned flour and brown meat in batches in hot, smoky oil.
• Add onion, celery, soy, molasses, and reserved liquids from canned vegetables adding water to equal 1 cup.
• Cover and set rocker. (The book doesn't specify a setting so I would use 10 lbs) Heat until you get a steady rocking and cook 10 minutes.
• Allow to cool.
• Stir in vegetables and heat through. If using fresh bean sprouts cook until they are done to your taste.
• Mom served this over rice with chow mein noodles on top and extra soy sauce.

Steps:

• Brown hamburger with onion in a skillet.
• Add all other ingredients except noodles and mix well.
• Place in a greased 3 qt casserole.
• Bake, uncovered, at 350 for 1 hour.
• Stir 3/4 of noodles into casserole and place the rest on top.
• Bake an additional 15 minutes.

Steps:

• Fry bacon slightly.
• Add beef and onions.
• Mix ingredients.
• Bake in covered casserole dish 1 1/2 to 2 hours at 350 degrees.

Steps:

• Boil noodles in water until tender. Drain and convert to large bowl. Add seasoning, soy, brown sugar, oil, oyster sauce and blend well. Spray large metal broiler pan with cooking spray and spread 1/4 of the noodles onto the pan evenly. Bake at 350 degrees, turning noodles every 10 minutes for 30 minutes total, or until dry. Repeat with remaining noodles, baking 1/4 of the batch at a time. Marinate meat separately. Then, set meat aside in separate marinades while preparing vegetables.
• Clean, wash, and julienne the vegetables. Set each vegetable aside in separate piles. Bring big pot of water to boil. Partially boil each vegetable group separately dipping them in the hot water for 1 minute or less. Do not par-boil the mushrooms or green onions. Saute the mushrooms in butter until cooked. Once the vegetables are all par-boiled or cooked, you can mix them together in a large bowl, along with the green onions.
• Add 1 tablespoon of oil to a hot stir-fry pan. Remove garlic pieces and ginger from the meat marinade. Divide pork and ginger from meat marinade. Divide pork and chicken into 3 batches a piece. Stir fry each batch very quickly until cooked through and mix meats. Set aside.
• Add 1 tablespoon of oil to the hot pan. Stir fry 2 to 3 handfuls of mixed vegetable for half a minute. Stir in small portion of meat mixture. Add 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce while stir frying. Toss together and serve on a bed of noodles. Repeat with the remaining ingredients. Be sure to keep the amount of vegetable you are stir frying in small batches until all has been cooked and blended together.

Steps:

• Add oil to a heated wok and to this, add pork belly and fry cooked and golden-brown. Remove pork and set aside.
• In the same oil, cook shrimp and once cooked, set aside.
• In the same oil, saute ginger, garlic, and onions for 2-3 minutes. Once translucent, add in pork and shrimp.Saute for 2 minutes.
• Then, add cauliflower, carrots, broccoli, bell pepper, cabbage, snow peas, and water. Steam for 2 minutes.
• Stir in soy and oyster sauce and season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Serve warm.

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain.
• In same pot, saute onion and bell pepper over medium heat until softened. Remove from pan.
• In same pot, cook sausage over medium heat until brown. Drain.
• Combine onion mixture, pasta, sausage, mushrooms and stewed tomatoes in same pot and heat through, 5 minutes. Serve.

Steps:

• Place in buttered dish Bake 250 for 1 1/2 hours cover the last 1/2 hour

Steps:

• In a skillet, brown beef; drain. Dissolve bouillon in 1-1/2 cups boiling water; add to skillet. , Combine remaining water with cornstarch; stir into beef mixture. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer until thickened. Add vegetables and soy sauce; stir and cook until heated through, about 15 minutes. , Serve over rice; sprinkle with chow mein noodles.

Steps:

• Brown ground meat and onion in a large pot.
• Add 1/4 cup of soy sauce.
• Thinly slice the entire bunch of celery, including the leaves.
• Add beef broth and celery.
• Bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer until celery is tender.
• Add more soy sauce if needed, to taste.
• Serve as an open face sandwich over a hamburger bun.