![]() It is seasoned not only with soy sauce (which may or may not be a part of the gravy in Salem), but also with Bead Molasses. Mom’s version uses a mixture of pork and beef chunks, and embellishes with sliced mushrooms, stir-fried with the same onions, celery, and mass of bean sprouts that appear to form the base of the Salem dish, along with a corn starch-thickened gravy. When my mom heard I’d be tackling this sandwich this month, she spontaneously cooked up a batch for me. Now I grew up eating chop suey as well and it doesn’t look spectacularly different than what Ben Collins tweeted. By the time the Chinese restaurateurs of Salem had developed this particular version of chop suey, the kind served with a hamburger bun in a styrofoam clamshell at the chop suey stand in Salem, the gravy might have changed color from its travels through the central states. By the time the Chinese diaspora had made it here to Salem, Massachusetts, all the way across the country from their starting point of San Francisco, perhaps their chop suey had left behind the water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, or bell peppers it might have featured in parts of the Western US. But in essence it seems to have been a compromise dish, an application of Chinese techniques to mostly-familiar items and flavors.īased on Ben Collins’ photo, the chop suey of Salem appears to be a mass of bean sprouts and possibly a chunk or two of chicken, suspended in a viscous, mostly transparent gravy of some kind. There are a number of stories, mostly apocryphal, about the name “chop suey,” what it means, and how the dish originated. So what is chop suey? Is it truly a Chinese dish, or an invention of Chinese-American restaurants? The second act of the documentary film The Search for General Tso traces how the Chinese who’d immigrated to America spread east after the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which severely limited not only further Chinese immigration but even the types of work they could do, essentially giving birth to the ubiquitous Chinese laundries and Chop Suey restaurants across the United States. wUBjRZAuOX- Ben Collins JSo what is Chop Suey? They’re called chop suey sandwiches and they only exist in Salem, Massachusetts. It’s such an easy Chicken Chop Suey recipe that’s much lower in points than take out.Every year on the 4th of July, everyone in my family eats one of these monstrosities. Once the sauce begins to simmer reduce the heat and let cook for 5 minutes. In a small bowl I mixed together the chicken broth, cornstarch, soy sauce, sesame oil and rice wine vinegar.Īdd the sauce to the pan and increase the heat to medium high. While the vegetables were cooking I started getting the sauce ready. Let that cook for 4 minutes.Īdd the bean sprouts and cook for 1 minute. Once the chicken was done cooking I pushed it to the side and added the carrots, celery, onion and garlic. While the chicken was cooking I cut up my vegetables. ![]() Let the chicken cook until it is no longer pink. Heat the large skillet over medium heat then add the oil and chicken. Because of that I used a large nonstick skillet. To keep this recipe low in points I reduced the amount of oil I used. If you prefer a vegetarian version you could use tofu instead of chicken and vegetable broth instead of chicken broth.Ĭut the boneless, skinless chicken breast into bite size pieces. You could also add snow peas, bok choy or baby corn. For the vegetables in my Chicken Chop Suey I used bean sprouts, celery, onion and carrots.
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