Hot Favorite American Chopsuey

One of the comfort foods that was born out of the evolution of Chinese food as it traveled across the world and each community added some of their touches and many suck favorites were seen. Chopsuey takes crunch to a different level altogether by deep frying egg noodles and topping them with a Sweet and sour sauce with meat and vegetables.

My all time favorite chopsuey is from Food Inn in Colaba in Mumbai where I was introduced to this marvel. Chopsuey lovers swear by it and other hate it, such is the drastic reputation of this high calorie taste bud tickler

Sharing the recipe for a vegetarian version of this epic dish :

Freesh noodles 200g

Tomato puree ½ cup

Tomato ketchup ½ cup

Water 1 cup

Corn flour 1 tbsp

Salt

Pepper

Sugar

Worcestershire 1 tsp

Chili sauce 1 tsp

Assorted capsicum julienne ¼ cup

Baby corn juliennes ¼ cup

Zucchini Juliennes a hadful

sliced shitake mushrooms 6 nos 

Sliced onions 1 small

Tomato juliennes 1 nos

Shredded cabbage handful 

Garlic 1 clove

Ginger 1 cm piece

Celery chopped 1 tsp

Dry red chili 2 nos

Chili oil for cooking

• Deep fry the noodles and keep aside
• Mix together water.. corn flour ..Puree ketchup and Worcestershire.. Remove lumps
• Cook an a high flame till thick and add seasonings and chili sauce
• Heat chili oil and sauté garlic ginger and dry red chili
• Sauté all vegetables and add the sauce
• Top on the fried noodles
• For non-veg add a  fried egg on top…..

The recipe is simple and yet it has charmed so many. For non vegetarians please add fried boneless chicken juliennes to the sauce and top with a sunny side up !

Cheers !