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American Chop Suey

eddyandme — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:15:32 GMT

Can't find my Mum's American Chop Suey recipe. IMHO, she made the best!

Was wondering if any of you could share your recipe with me. Thanx!

Re: American Chop Suey

software — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:21:08 GMT

I hope you find it.

I call it chili mac, I never make it the same way twice depending on the ingredients available. My family likes it similar to a soupy chili, with the pasta

@eddyandme wrote:
Can't find my Mum's American Chop Suey recipe. IMHO, she made the best!

Was wondering if any of you could share your recipe with me. Thanx!

Re: American Chop Suey

eddyandme — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:55:20 GMT

@software

Just googled it and guess American Chop Suey is a New England name. It's called various names throughout the country, often goulash!

Know the basics, just wishing I new the exact seasonings that made it so good!

Thanx.

Re: American Chop Suey

toria — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:17:33 GMT

My grandmother made this. It was not goulash or chili. It was made of both small cubes of beef and pork and had onions, celery and some chinese vegetables in it like water chestnuts. It was in a brown gravy and served over rice. I probably have the recipe somewhere. It was good comfort food. I have not made it in a long time. Its good because you can make it and freeze it in small portions.

Re: American Chop Suey

toria — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:21:52 GMT

I actually could kind of make it off the top of my head...brown small cubes of beef and pork, add finely chopped onions and saute. Add garlic or garlic powder. Add chopped celery and either fresh or canned mushrooms drained. Add sliced water chestnuts. (optional bamboo shoots or bena sprouts). Add beef stock and soy sauce.and cook until meat is tender. Thicken sauce with cornstarch slurry. Serve over rice. Anyway the recipe goes something like that.

Re: American Chop Suey

daisyk — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:28:59 GMT

@eddyandme...What did your mom put in hers? There are so many variations. My mom never had a name for it-I wasn't crazy about it and called it "noodle junk". I do make it now with a little variation. My mom used hamburger, onion and bell pepper, stewed tomatoes and elbow mac. I use more seasonings I think-garlic, etc. and I like bowtie pasta instead of elbows. The Food Network website has a recipe for American Chop Suey that is highly rated.

Re: American Chop Suey

eddyandme — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:33:34 GMT

@daisyk

She never used stewed tomatoes. Wish I knew the spices and believe she used a sauce like Ragu? It was nice and tasty and had added cheddar cheese baked into it - yum!

I think I might try it with a little of taco seasoning. All I can tell you we had the pepper. onions, ground beef and mac but unsure of her saesonings. Thanx.

Re: American Chop Suey

daisyk — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:38:48 GMT

@eddyandme..Your mom's sounds better- I like the cheddar cheese addition! Sounds a lot like a chili mac-hopefully someone will have a better idea of seasonings!

Re: American Chop Suey

eddyandme — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:56:22 GMT

@daisyk wrote:
@eddyandme..Your mom's sounds better- I like the cheddar cheese addition! Sounds a lot like a chili mac-hopefully someone will have a better idea of seasonings!

@daisyk

Thanx. My Mum was an excellent cook! I did find one seems somewhat similar when I googled on "A Family Feast" for American Chop Suey, in case you're interested.

Re: American Chop Suey

LizzieInSRQ — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:16:43 GMT

Aww..hope you find it. My mom has been gone for 20 years and I've not had this dish since. She called it Slumgullion which i think was an irish nickname for the beef-a-roni/chili-Mac concoction. Yes, Paula Deen calls it goulash.

Great for cold weather. Wow hadn't thought about this in a while! Thx..

Re: American Chop Suey

Zhills — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:42:14 GMT

I have some leftover chili and some mac & cheese and I am combining them for dinner. Call it what you want, just yummy!

Re: American Chop Suey

eddyandme — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:59:19 GMT

@Zhills wrote:
I have some leftover chili and some mac & cheese and I am combining them for dinner. Call it what you want, just yummy!

@Zhills

Yummmmm...Can I have some, too?

Re: American Chop Suey

Zhills — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 20:15:18 GMT

Be here about 6:30 pm! There's plenty.

Re: American Chop Suey

eddyandme — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 20:25:48 GMT

@Zhills wrote:
Be here about 6:30 pm! There's plenty.

@Zhills

Want me to bring some garlic bread?

Re: American Chop Suey

DiAnne — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 20:50:25 GMT

My mother used to make that also but I seem to remember it had Campbell's soup in it.

Re: American Chop Suey

Noel7 — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:07:26 GMT

I just googled "vintage recipe for Mom's American Chop Suey" and found a lot of similar recipes.

food.com has a good basic one in that group you might want to see, they say it's a 1950s recipe.

Google Mom's American Chop Suey 1950

Hope that helps!

Re: American Chop Suey

Dorothy11 — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 23:28:38 GMT

My mother made something she called Goulash that I loved as a kid in the '60s. It had ground beef, Rotelle pasta, canned bean sprouts and I think cottage cheese. I know this sounds totally gross, but it was so good. I was never able to reporduce it. Have any of you had something like this?

Re: American Chop Suey

PurpleBunny — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 00:25:22 GMT

This is the way THIS New Englander makes it ...

Brown any amount of ground beef that you want and remove it from the pan.

Add a corse chopped onion and one fine chopped garlic clove to the fat left in the pan and cook until tender.

Drain fat from onions and garlic when done.

Add the ground beef, onion and the garlic back into your pan and add Campbell's tomato soup, the number of cans depends on how "soupy/saucy" you want it. We use one of the huge cans and one of the normal size cans. Make sure you add one can of water, as well.

Season sauce with oregano, garlic powder, salt and pepper to taste.

Add the soup, beef onions and garlic to the al dente pasta of your choice - I like penne.

Mix well and enjoy.

Re: American Chop Suey

luvsbulldogs — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:43:16 GMT

@eddyandme

I live in New England and have been here for almost 40 years and have seen many variations of American Chop Suey. I make mine with the seasonings right in the sauce that I now buy. Here is how I make mine.

I saute some green peppers and also a sliced or chopped onion and then add the chopped meat and brown. Then I add "Newmans Sockaroni Sauce" to the drained meat, peppers and onions and also a can of "Hunts petite diced tomatoes with garlic, basil and oregano". In another pot I have the elbow macaroni cooking. Drain the elbow macaroni when done al dente and then place back in the pot and add the meat mixture to it. Stir and heat all together and serve. If you want you can add some cheddar cheese to the top of each plate.

My daughter also adds bulk Italian sausage and fresh mushrooms to her mixture to brown.

I hope that this helps you.

Here ya go I edited it to make it more readable....lol.

AMERICAN CHOP SUEY

1 ½ lbs. of 92% ground beef

1 lb. Italian sausage – bulk package

Newmans Sockaroni Sauce

1 Green pepper - chopped

1 Onion - sliced or chopped

Hunts petite diced tomatoes with garlic, basil and oregano

Fresh sliced mushrooms

Elbow macaroni

Saute chopped green pepper and chopped or sliced onion and mushrooms

Add ground beef and brown

Add the Hunts Sauce and the Newmans Sockaroni Sauce and heat till hot.

Meanwhile cook the elbow macaroni till al dente

Drain the elbows and add to the sauce mixture

Re: American Chop Suey

eddyandme — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:20:07 GMT

@luvsbulldogs

Sounds yummy! I've never heard of Sockaroni sauce, but if it's Newman's it must be good.

Thanks for the recipe!