Auntie Imes Sapa Sui Samoan Chop Sui Recipe 375

TRADITIONAL SAPA SUI (SAMOAN CHOP SUEY)

Traditional Sapa Sui (Samoan Chop Suey) image

I love this recipe! It's cheap, delicious and fast to prepare. It comes from an old boyfriend's mum. She is Samoan and a great cook. As this is a Samoan recipe, you can bet it's going to feed a small army.

Provided by cookingpompom

Categories One Dish Meal

Time 30m

Yield 6-8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 12

Ingredients

250 g mung beans, vermicelli they are also called cellophane (found in the asian section of your supermarket) or 1 glass noodles
2 tablespoons oil
1 large onion, diced
2 -4 garlic cloves, crushed (or a good tablespoon of the prepared garlic in a jar)
1 tablespoon of fresh grated gingerroot (or 1 tb of ginger from a jar)
300 g mincemeat (all meats are fine, beef, chicken or pork) or 500 g of chopped meat (all meats are fine, beef, chicken or pork)
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 cups water
1/2 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons ketjap manis
2 -5 cups chopped vegetables, I love veggies so I added 5 cups (fresh or frozen)
1 teaspoon chicken stock powder or 1 teaspoon beef stock powder

Steps:

In a large pan, fry the onion, garlic and ginger until the onion is translucent over a med/high heat.
Add and fry the meat for no more than 2 minutes It needs to be just seared. Stir so it doesn't burn.
Add the soy sauce and water (the water should almost cover the meat - not totally). Let simmer over a med. heat while you prepare the noodles (about 5 minutes).
Prepare the noodles as per the pack instructions (place hot water in a bowl and add the noodles, let stand until they are re-hydrated and plyable).
Snip the noodles, you want each strand to be short.
Add the noodles plus 1 cup of the water from the noodles.
Add the remaining ingredients. It will look soupy - this is normal.
Stir and let simmer over a medium heart for 10-15 minutes.
Serve as is!

SAMOAN SAPASUI RECIPE

Samoan Sapasui Recipe image

Sapasui is the version of chop suey enjoyed throughout the Pacific Islands in countries such as Samoa and Fiji. This authentic sapasui recipe uses chicken but beef or any other meat also works just fine.

Provided by Travel Food Atlas

Time 35m

Number Of Ingredients 10

Ingredients

250 g Vermicelli noodles
300 g Chicken meat
2 tbsp Peanut oil
1 Large onion
1 cup Soy sauce
2 Carrots
1 tbsp Grated ginger
1 cup Water
1 Chicken stock cube
Pepper to taste

Steps:

Heat your peanut oil in a pan and on a medium heat add crushed garlic, chopped onion and ginger.
Once the garlic starts to slightly brown, add your meat and carrots cut into matchsticks, and leave to cook.
In a separate pot cook your vermicelli noodles according to the instructions on the pack.
To the meat add your soy sauce, a cup of the noodle water and your stock cube, and let it simmer for 5 minutes.
Once your noodles are cooked, snip them to around 5cm long and stir them in to the mix.
If needed, add more soy sauce and water in small doses to get your required consistency.
Add pepper to taste and serve.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 382 calories, Carbohydrate 30 grams carbohydrates, Cholesterol 69 milligrams cholesterol, Fat 14 grams fat, Fiber 3 grams fiber, Protein 33 grams protein, SaturatedFat 3 grams saturated fat, ServingSize 1, Sodium 3670 milligrams sodium, Sugar 4 grams sugar, TransFat 0 grams trans fat, UnsaturatedFat 10 grams unsaturated fat