Cap Cai

Description

This is a yummy Chinese-Indonesian vegetable dish that you’ll find in restaurants all over Jakarta. It’s a great pescetarian dish, too. We usually serve it with brown rice and a fried tofu. You can leave out the prawns and the taste is still great, or even substitute for chicken.

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 onion, thinly sliced
  • 10 ounces peeled and deveined medium shrimp (30-40 per pound)
  • 1 head bok choy, chopped
  • 1 ½ cups chopped broccoli
  • 1 ½ cups chopped cauliflower
  • 1 large carrot, thinly sliced at an angle
  • 3 green onions, chopped
  • ⅔ cup water
  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 2 tablespoons fish sauce
  • 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
  • 1 teaspoon white sugar
  • ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
  • salt to taste

Instructions

  1. Heat vegetable oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Stir in garlic and onion; cook and stir until onion has softened and turned translucent
  2. about 5 minutes. Add shrimp
  3. bok choy
  4. broccoli
  5. cauliflower
  6. carrot
  7. and green onion. Pour in water
  8. cover
  9. and cook until shrimp is no longer translucent in the center and vegetables are tender
  10. about 15 minutes.
  11. Dissolve cornstarch into fish sauce in a small bowl. Stir into the cap cai along with oyster sauce
  12. sugar
  13. and pepper; stir until thickened. Season with salt before serving.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 25 mins

Total Time: 45 mins

Servings: 4

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