Name: Cap Cai
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
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

Cap Cai

⏱️ Ready in 45 min 🥄 Prep 20 min 🔥 Cook 25 min 👥 4 servings Hard

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.

🔗 Recipe adapted from AllRecipes

👨‍🍳 Instructions

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

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