Moms American Chop Suey 1950s Basic Recipes

AMERICAN CHOP SUEY RECIPE

Steps:

• Prep your veggies by washing your bell pepper, and then chopping your onions and bell pepper into small pieces
• Preheat your frypan and when hot add the oil
• Once the oil is good and hot go ahead and add your ground beef. Make sure to brown the beef to get that great flavor. Remove the ground beef when cooked through.
• Now, get the water boiling for the elbow macaroni. Once the water is boiling add your macaroni and cook until al dente. Strain the water out of the macaroni.Add a little bit of oil to the macaroni elbows to make sure they dont stick.
• In the same frying pan go ahead and saute the onions and peppers. Add more oil if needed.After the onions are translucent go ahead and add the sauce, salt, Italian seasoning and ground beef to the pan. Bring to a boil.After it gets to a boil turn it down to a simmer.
• Now add it all together. Pour the sauce over the cooked elbows and mix it all together.

AMERICAN CHOP SUEY

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Cook the pasta in boiling salted water following the package directions.
• Drain in a colander and rinse under hot water. Set aside.
• In a large, deep skillet or saucepan, heat the vegetable oil and butter over medium heat. Add the onion and bell pepper, if using. Cook, stirring until onion is softened and edges are lightly browned.
• Add the ground beef and cook, stirring and breaking up, until the beef is cooked through and no longer pink.
• Add the garlic and garlic powder and cook, stirring for 1 to 2 minutes longer.
• Stir in the crushed tomatoes, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, sugar, and pepper. Cook, stirring, until the sauce mixture begins to boil. Taste and add salt, as needed. Simmer for 5 to 10 minutes.
• Add the drained macaroni to the sauce, mix well, and heat through. Serve and enjoy.

MOM'S CHOP SUEY

Steps:

• 1. Chop onions and celery fairly small and set aside.
• 2. In a large Dutch oven, brown the meat in oil with salt and pepper to taste.
• 3. Add celery and onion. Cover with about half the bottle of soy sauce and add water to cover mixture. Bring to a boil and then lower heat. Simmer, covered, for 1 hour.
• 4. Add bean sprouts and water chestnuts, and a little more soy sauce and water if needed (not too much if you want it to be thick). Let this cook for about 20 minutes.
• 5. In a small saucepan, mix together the brown gravy sauce, the corn starch and water.
• 6. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until it gets so thick you can't stir any longer.
• 7. Immediately remove from heat and stir into the large pot, until very well mixed. Should be semi-thick at this point and ready to serve.
• 8. I like to serve this over hot white rice and sprinkle with crisp chow mein noodles. And, of course, egg rolls on the side--I cheat and buy frozen ones.

MOM'S AMERICAN CHOP SUEY (1950'S BASIC)

Steps:

• Clean and dice or chop the veggies as you like.
• Brown ground beef and onion in oil, drain and return to pan.
• Add remaining ingredients except pasta and mix. Simmer and stir.
• Prepare pasta per package, drain.
• Add to ground beef and mix well.
• Simmer 10 - 15 minutes. Add water if needed.
• Tastes even better the next day.

AMERICAN CHOP SUEY

Steps:

• 1. Heat the butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onion and bell pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, for about 1 minute. Then add the ground beef and continue to cook, stirring and breaking up the chunks of meat with a spoon. Cook until the meat is no longer pink, about 7 minutes. Sprinkle the herbs and pepper over the meat, add salt to taste, and mix in well.
• 2. Add the canned tomatoes with their juices, the tomato sauce, paste, and juice. Add sugar to taste. Simmer while you cook the pasta.
• 3. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Add the macaroni and cook, stirring occasionally, until al dente. Drain. Mix the macaroni into the chop suey. Serve hot.

CHOP SUEY

Steps:

• Heat shortening in a large, deep skillet. Sear pork until it turns white, then add onion and saute for 5 minutes. Add celery, hot water, salt and pepper. Cover skillet and simmer for 5 minutes. Add sprouts and heat to boiling.
• In a small bowl combine the cold water, cornstarch, soy sauce and sugar. Mix together and add to skillet mixture. Cook for 5 minutes, or until thickened to taste.

MOM'S AMERICAN CHOP SUEY

Steps:

• Heat water to cook spaghetti; then cook al dente and drain Brown meat, onion& green pepper; drain.
• Put spaghetti back into pot.
• To spaghetti pot, add drained chop meat mixture, 2 cans of tomato soup, 2 soup cans water, salt& pepper. Cook on medium until heated through stirring so it doesn't stick.
• This is how mom did it.
• I add alittle cayenne, but that's about it.
• I don't want to change it too much.
• I like the old fashioned memories.
• Kids like this meal.