Chicken Chop Suey

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 cups cooked chicken, deboned and sliced into strips about an inch long
• 2 tablespoons fat
• 1 small onion, peeled and thinly sliced
• 1 cup celery, sliced
• 1/2 green bell pepper, seeded and thinly sliced
• 8 ounces mushrooms, chopped and drained (reserve juice)
• 1 1/2 cups chicken stock, plus reserved mushroom liquid
• 1 teaspoon soy sauce
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 1 (20 ounce) can bean sprouts, drained (fresh is fine, too)
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch, mixed with
• 1 tablespoon water
• water chestnut, if desired

Recipe

• 1 melt butter or fat in skillet; add onion, celery and green pepper.
• 2 brown slightly and add liquid.
• 3 allow vegetables to simmer in the stock until tender, about 15 minutes.
• 4 add soy sauce; season to taste with salt and pepper and stir in cornstarch slurry.
• 5 cook for five minutes until thickened.
• 6 add chicken, mushrooms and sprouts; heat thoroughly but do not boil.
• 7 serve hot with steamed rice.