CHOP SUEY
Cut in 1-inch strips
1 pound white meat of chicken, or pork, veal, crab or lobster meat, and cook 5 minutes in frying pan in
2 tablespoons chicken or other fat.
Cut
1 cup celery in thin slices crosswise, add
1 onion peeled and cut in thin slices
6 mushroom caps peeled and sliced
6 Chinese water chestnuts peeled and sliced.
Cook vegetables 5 minutes in
2 tablespoons chicken fat or butter. Add
½ pound bean sprouts
¼ pound bamboo shoots cut in diamond-shaped pieces
1 teaspoon Soyu sauce
2 cups chicken stock or water and the cooked meat, and simmer gently until bean sprouts and meat are thoroughly cooked. Season with
Salt and
Few grains pepper.