Chicken chop suey sauce skin#

I’m not too sure if my “favorite brush” and this simple yet flavorful recipe have any connection in time when they both vanished but I’m sure happy that I brought my Chicken Chop Suey back to my Chinese recipe list.

Chicken chop suey sauce skin#

When the chicken is cool enough to handle, remove the meat, chop and set aside discard the skin and bones. Now that’s a recipe you want to keep for those challenging evenings when there’s little time to cook. Remove chicken from the water, and let cool. What’s nice about this delicious chicken chop suey dish is it’s quick to prepare and the cooking time is only about 15 minutes.

This Chinese American recipe with uncertain origins is a simple meal that falls into the “comfort food” category. So why did this recipe disappear from my menu rotation? I liked it a lot as did everyone who had enjoyed it at my home. Add chicken and cook at high heat for 5 minutes. Add remaining ginger, garlic and chilli and saute until golden. “Oh My”, I thought! Yes of course I had one but for some unexplainable reason, I stopped making it. Marinate chicken with 1/2 tbsp ginger paste, 1/2 tbsp garlic paste, 1 chilli, 1 tbsp light soy sauce, 1 tbsp dark soy sauce and salt (to taste). Just like having a favorite dish that Mom used to make and it slowly faded away from the family kitchen…Ī few months ago, one of my subscribers kindly asked me if I had a recipe for Chicken Chop Suey. The same sort of thing can happen with food and recipes… How many times did we have a favorite appetizer or main course and all of a sudden, restaurants stopped offering it and we just forget about it until someone mentions it or we come across it. Today we might call chop suey a fridge clean-out dish. It’s a dish combining all those odds and ends into a stir-fry of meat and vegetables, coated in a tasty sauce. Cut the ends from the spring onions, and cut the green and white of the onion lengthways. Enjoy What Is Chop Suey Chop Suey (, zsu in Mandarin or zaap sui in Cantonese) refers to odds and ends or miscellaneous leftovers. Remove the seeds and stalk, then slice diagonally into strips. Use a sharp knife to cut the pepper into quarters on a board. A few years ago when I was looking through an old bag of make-up and cleansers I saw what used to be “my favorite” facial cleaning accessory. Put in a bowl, crush in the garlic, and add the ketchup, oyster sauce, soy sauce and 3 tbsp water.

Two weeks later when I returned home, somehow I never reused it. One day when leaving for Toronto, – before I finally moved there officially – I forgot to pack it. As insignificant as that can be, I remember using a brush when cleaning my face and it felt good because of the subtle friction… it was like a gentle massage. I don’t know why but sometimes there are certain things you enjoyed at some point in your life that for some reason, disappear.