American Chop Suey

Ingredients

• One pound ground beef.
• Brown in roaster with tablespoon of fat
• add 1 can of tomatoes (or 7 medium sized fresh tomatoes)
• 1 small can of garden peas
• 2 cups celery (chopped fine)
• 3 onions
• 1 green pepper (diced)
• 1 cup uncooked rice
• salt, pepper, and paprika to taste.

Method

1. 1

   Cover tight and cook 45 minutes or till rice is done, over slow fire.

2. 2

   If tomatoes do not furnish enough juice a little water can be added — this is supposed to be thick but not dry when finished.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Gertrude Bobbitt Circle cook book (1948) by Central Methodist Church (Spencer, N.C.). Gertrude Bobbitt Circle, page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

AMERICAN CHOP SUEY One pound ground beef. Brown in roaster with tablespoon of fat, add 1 can of tomatoes (or 7 medium sized fresh tomatoes), 1 small can of garden peas, 2 cups celery (chopped fine), 3 onions, 1 green pepper (diced), 1 cup uncooked rice, salt, pepper, and paprika to taste.

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