It is fun to make your favorite takeout meals as Dutch oven camping recipes!
This Chinese Chop Suey is made from readily available, simple ingredients that are packed with flavor. You’re gonna love this easy recipe filled with your favorite vegetables, chicken and sauce served over rice.
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Chop Suey vs Chow Mein
One big difference between chow mein and chop suey has to do with noodles.
When you are making chow mein you typically add cooked noodles in the dish.
With chop suey, you usually serve the recipe over rice or noodles.
So, you can think of old fashioned chop suey recipes kind of like a no noodle chow mein.
If you skip the rice and noodles altogether, this recipe becomes a low-carb, keto-friendly meal.
Prep To Make This Chicken Chop Suey Recipe
As with all veggie-heavy camping dinner recipes, you’ll want to prep all your vegetables before you do anything else.
You can even chop everything at home so you just dump and cook at the campsite.
For this recipe you’ll need to chop some carrots, onion, mushrooms, garlic, celery and green onions.
To make this job a bit easier, you can buy carrots and mushrooms already sliced.
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Methods Of Cooking Chop Suey At The Campsite
If you are making this as one of our campfire recipes, you’ll need to get your fire going in order to cook over coals (not flames) but you can also use charcoal briquettes as a heat source.
Alternatively, this American chop suey recipe can be made as one of our camp stove recipes so get your stove ready for cooking on a level surface.
Steps To Make Camp Oven Chicken Chop Suey
Step 1. Prepare your ingredients as directed.
Step 2. Prepare your heat source to begin cooking over a medium-high heat and pre-heat the Dutch oven.
Step 3. Start cooking the veggies. Add oil to the pot and let it heat up, then add the carrots, onion, mushrooms, garlic and celery. You are cooking them until they soften a bit before adding the next ingredients.
Step 4. Brown the chicken. Now it is time to add the chicken to the pot. You are looking for the pieces to get lightly browned on all sides.
Step 5. Stir in the spices. You’ll sprinkle the ginger and red pepper flakes over the mixture while stirring to combine the spices throughout the dish.
Step 6. Add the liquids. This flavorful chop suey sauce is made from the chicken broth and soy sauce you are going to add to the pot now along with the water chestnuts.
Step 7. Cook through and thicken. You will cook the pot with the cover on until the chicken is thoroughly cooked and then you will remove the cover and continue cooking until the sauce is as thick as you like it.
Step 8. Garnish and serve. Just before serving, you’ll top the chop suey with green onions and serve it hot over rice. If you want to go low-carb, you can eliminate the rice.
Similar Meals To This Chinese Chop Suey Recipe
We love cooking Asian-flavored easy camping meals. Try these other recipes too!
The secret to make this Camp Oven Chicken Curry a flavor-packed meal without a lot of effort is using red curry paste and curry powder … both ingredients are widely available in most grocery stores.
The next two recipes are a couple of our Asian-inspired make ahead camping meals that you prepare at home then just dump and cook at the campsite!
Ginger, garlic and soy sauce are the base of the flavorful sauce created with this Asian Beef And Broccoli meal. The flat iron steak is made tender by slicing it into small strips.
I love this Dutch Oven Thai Campfire Chicken recipe because of the unique flavor combination created by coconut milk and peanut butter. It is so easy and so yummy!
We don’t cook with shrimp often but when we do, this Campfire Dutch Oven Thai Basil Shrimp is on the top of our list. It is made with a simple sauce that features the bright taste of fresh basil.
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Yield: 6 Servings
Chinese Chop Suey Dutch Oven Recipe
Camping For Foodies Dinner Camping Recipes: Chinese Chop Suey Dutch Oven Recipe
20 minutes
40 minutes
1 hour
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 carrots, peeled and cut matchstick size
- 1 small onion, diced
- 8 oz package sliced fresh mushrooms
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 stalks celery, chopped
- 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts, cubed in 1 inch pieces
- 14 oz can chicken broth
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 8 oz can water chestnuts
- 4 green onions, sliced
- 4 servings prepared rice
Instructions
- Pre-heat 12 inch Dutch oven for cooking over medium high heat.
- Heat oil in the Dutch oven.
- Add the carrots, onion, mushrooms, garlic and celery … cook covered, stirring occasionally until the veggies begin to soften, about 15 minutes.
- Add the chicken and continue cooking uncovered and stirring until the chicken is lightly browned on all sides, about 10 minutes.
- Add the ground ginger and red pepper flakes, stirring to incorporate with the other ingredients.
- Then, add the chicken broth, soy sauce and water chestnuts, stirring to incorporate everything in the pot.
- Cover and cook over medium-high heat until the chicken is cooked through, about 10 minutes.
- Uncover and continue cooking until the sauce reaches your desired thickness.
- Serve over prepared rice and top with green onions.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6
Serving Size:
1
Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 344Total Fat: 6gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 66mgSodium: 1545mgCarbohydrates: 41gFiber: 4gSugar: 4gProtein: 30g
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