Project Advance 2 - Chop Suey

Report on the healthy cooking project.

Recipe’s name: CHOP SUEY

Group members: Oscar Celis Laura Nájera Sebastian Tilagui

Last meeting held: 27/04/12

Next scheduled meeting:02/05/12

Activities done in the current session: In this session we are going to show you the different kinds of recipes that you can cook. These kinds depend of the ingredients that you would use and they do not required a lot for cooking them. Last we will explain the preparation of one of them.

Agreements: We agree to show the different versions of the chop suey, and focus in one of them.

Short description of the advances in the task: We select the calendar for working in the project and search more information about that. In addition we search the ingredients for the recipe and its costs. Usually chop suey has a lot of meat (like chicken, fish, beef, prawns, or pork) and eggs, cooked quickly with vegetables), for that we think that this recipe is cheap and easy to cook at home.

Changes made to the task: We are going to show the preparation of the chicken chop suey version because we think that this one is the healthiest version.

Some people think that there is only one kind of chop suey, but that is not true. We want to show the different versions that you can prepare changing a couple of ingredients, that way you can pleased people with different tastes.

 

 

Here are the different kinds of chop suey:

·      Chop suey with pork: this dish is prepared with pork and vegetables cooked in a flavorful sauce. The recipe calls for pork but beef can be used instead.

·      Chicken chop suey: this dish is prepared with chicken and mushrooms.

·      Lunch counter chop suey: Straight from Woolworth's lunch counter, circa 1950. It brings back memories of what passed for Chinese food in western restaurants.

·      Oven chop suey casserole: A nourishing, easy to make dish - just combine all the ingredients, bake, and serve over chow mein noodles.

We choose the chicken chop suey for being the healthiest version, now we show how to prepare it:

Ingredients:

·      4 spoonful of soja sauce

·      2 teaspoonful of white sugar

·      500 gr of chicken breast without bones and skin

·      3 spoonful of olive oil

·      2 onions

·      2 garlic bulb

·      200 gr of chinese roots

·      3 teaspoonful of sesame oil

·      1 spoonful of cornstarch

·      3 spoonful of water

·      425 ml of chicken broth

Preparation:

We begin by mixing the soja sauce with sugar, stirring till these are completely dissolved.

Clean the chicken breast, cut them in thin strips and marinate in the soja and sugar. Let it rest about 20 minutes in the refrigerator.

In a wok sauté the chicken with olive oil about 2 minutes.

 

Now add the cut onions and the crushed garlic bulbs. Add too the chinese roots and fry the mix for 4 minutes and finally add the sesame oil.

 

In a stewpot boil the chicken broth adding the cornstarch dissolved in the water stirring till the mix thicken.

Lets finish serving on a dish the sauté chicken with the vegetables and above it the chicken sauce and leek cut in thin strips.

Reference:

http://chinesefood.about.com/od/chopsuey/

http://www.directoalpaladar.com/recetas-de-carnes-y-aves/chop-suey-de-pollo-receta

http://www.cocinarecetas.net/chop-suey-de-pollo-78400.html

http://www.chinese-foodrecipes.net/2011/05/chicken-chop-suey-recipe.html