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Chicken Chopsuey (Farmosa Style)


Ø  1 large chicken
Ø  6 flakes garlic
Ø  1 inch long fresh ginger root,
Ø  Black pepper
Ø  Salt to taste
Ø  3 onions
Ø  6 spring onions
Ø  250 gms carrots
Ø  6 stalks of celery
Ø  250 gms tender green cabbage
Ø  Few mushrooms and Bamboo shoots
Ø  ½ tsp ajinomoto
Ø  3 cups stock or water
Ø  4 tsps soya sauce
Ø  3 tblsps thick tomato puree
Ø  8 tsps corn flour
Ø  4 tsps sugar
Ø  1 tsp sesame oil
Ø  100 gms noodles
Ø  2 eggs
Ø  Oil to fry


Cut chicken meat into thin strips and leave them to marinate in garlic and ginger paste and seasoning for an hour. Saute in 4 tblsps oil and cook in a closed vessel with little water till tender. Now cut onions and spring onions into wedges and chop other vegetables into strips. Fry on high flame for about 3 mts but don’t allow it to turn brown. Now sprinkle ajinomoto and add warm stock, soya sauce and salt and bring to a boil. Mix in tomato puree, corn flour and sugar and cook for 10 mts, until quite thick. Now add chicken and sesame oil and cook for a few minutes.


Now break noodles into halved pieces and cook in boiling salt water. Strain and dry out well. Heat enough oil in a frying pan and fry noodle pieces in piece-meal fashion until they turn crisp and light brown. Drain on an absorbent paper. Place the chicken and vegetable in shallow dish, garnished with noodle bits and fried egg.