Chicken Chow Main
Origin: Chicago, Illinois
Source: Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), 1914
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 quart peanut oil
- 0.5 pound noodles
- 4 ounces pork
- 2 pounds chicken
- 1 stalk celery
- 1 onion
- 0.5 pound fresh mushrooms
- 0.5 pound chicken breast
- 3 hard-boiled eggs
- 2 tablespoon syou
Instructions
- Heat the peanut oil until boiling hot.
- Toss in the noodles and fry until crisp.
- Remove the noodles from the oil and drain.
- Finely chop the pork and half a pound of chicken meat together.
- Add two tablespoonfuls of syou and one teaspoonful of salt to the meat mixture.
- Cook the mixture for ten minutes.
- Lay the fried noodles on a platter as a base layer.
- Place the vegetables and gravy on top of the noodles.
- Add a layer of the shredded chicken breast over the vegetables.
- Garnish with the crumbled yolks of the hard-boiled eggs on top.
- Serve very hot.