How to Prepare Perfect Vegetarian Cap Cay

Vegetarian Cap Cay. Cap Cay is a popular Chinese Indonesian stir fried vegetables dish. Cap Cay could be made as vegetarian dish, or mixed with meat such as chicken, pork, various kinds of seafood, or meatballs. The main ingredients of this delicious dish are mixed vegetables seasoned with oyster sauce, salt, pepper, and Chinese cooking wine.

Heat the vegetable oil in a wok over medium heat. Sauté the garlic and ginger until fragrant. Stir until the carrot half cooked. You can cook Vegetarian Cap Cay using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Vegetarian Cap Cay

1. Prepare 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil.
2. You need 1 cm of ginger, minced or smashed.
3. Prepare 3 cloves of garlic, minced.
4. It's 1 of carrot, thinly sliced at an angle.
5. Prepare 100 gr of broccoli.
6. Prepare 100 gr of baby bok choy.
7. It's 1/4 of red bell pepper.
8. You need 1/4 of yellow bell pepper.
9. It's 1/4 of orange bell pepper.
10. It's 1 of tomato, divide into 8.
11. You need 100 gr of button mushroom (you can also use shiitake mushroom or oyster mushroom).
12. Prepare 2 tablespoons of mushroom sauce.
13. You need 3 tablespoons of tomato ketchup.
14. Prepare 75 ml of water.
15. It's of salt and pepper.
16. You need 2 teaspoons of corn starch mixed with a little water.

Add mushroom sauce, tomato ketchup, and water. Heat the vegetable oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the shrimp, bok choy, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, and green onion. What makes Cap Cay is the gravy sauce.

Vegetarian Cap Cay instructions

1. Cut broccoli and baby bok choy. Put them into boiling water for 1 minute. Set aside..
2. Heat the vegetable oil in a wok over medium heat. Sauté the garlic and ginger until fragrant..
3. Add the carrot. Stir until the carrot half cooked..
4. Add mushroom sauce, tomato ketchup, and water. Bring it to boil..
5. Add button mushrooms, broccoli, red, yellow, and orange bell peppers, baby bok choy, and tomato. Cook for about 30 seconds..
6. Season with salt and pepper..
7. Add cornstarch mixture. Stir until the sauce thickened. Serve warm with white rice. Enjoy! 😋.

It is made of water, corn starch as a thickener, chicken stock, soy sauce, and oyster sauce. To make it vegetarian, use vegetable stock and vegetarian oyster sauce which is made of mushrooms, instead of oyster. In Indonesia, Cap Cay is served over warm rice. The word "cap cay" is from Chinese Fujian dialect which means "mixed vegetables". Americans know this food by the name of "chop suey" but the Indonesian style is a bit different.