Tasteful Chap-Chaai/Cap Cai (Indonesian Chinese Stir Fry Mixed Vegetables) Recipes

Chap-Chaai/Cap Cai (Indonesian Chinese Stir Fry Mixed Vegetables). This quick and easy version of Chap Chai (Stir Fry Mixed Vegetables) is suitable for every day or festive occasions. Great recipe for Chap-Chaai/Cap Cai (Indonesian Chinese Stir Fry Mixed Vegetables). Cap cay cap cay cap cay~ you can subtitue all the vegetables you like.

Chap chye (also cap cai and cap cay) is the Hokkien-derived term for a popular Chinese Indonesian stir-fried vegetable dish that originates from Fujian cuisine. To prepare chap chye, they chop vegetables including cauliflower, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, Napa cabbage, carrot, baby corn, mushroom, and leek. It's in Hokkien, one of many chinese dialects. You can cook Chap-Chaai/Cap Cai (Indonesian Chinese Stir Fry Mixed Vegetables) using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chap-Chaai/Cap Cai (Indonesian Chinese Stir Fry Mixed Vegetables)

1. You need 2 of carrot.
2. You need 2 of cabbage.
3. Prepare 100 gram of mushroom (i use button mushroom/champignon).
4. Prepare 2 of pokchoy (chinese cabbage).
5. You need 1 of frying beaten egg (optional).
6. You need 1 of garlic.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of black pepper.
8. It's of Sauce:.
9. It's 4 tbsp of oyster sauce.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
11. You need 1 tsp of buillon powder (optional).
12. Prepare 2 tbsp of flour.
13. Prepare 100 ml of water.
14. You need 3 tbsp of vegetable oil.

I think the mandarin should be za-cai. As the name suggest, it means mixed of many vegetables. Well, in fact, not only vegetables are involved, we can use other stuff like mushrooms, meatball, sausages, sliced-meat, prawn etc. The liquid sauces were thickened using maizena (corn starch).

Chap-Chaai/Cap Cai (Indonesian Chinese Stir Fry Mixed Vegetables) step by step

1. Wash all the vegetable ingredients.
2. Chop-chop pokcoy (chinese cabbage).
3. Chop-chop cabbage.
4. Chop-chop carrot and mushroom.
5. Chop-chop fried egg.
6. Heat pan and add vegetable oil and garlic and black pepper. Then stir fry carrot until cooked, add mushroom inside. Then stir fry. Add chopped cabbage, chinese cabbage and egg. Stir fry.
7. Add salt, buillon powder, oyster sauce then stir fry again.
8. Put flour in a glass then add water. Then disolve the flour. Then add it in frying pan. Then Stir fry all until cooked. Then test taste if you still need salt you can add it.
9. Serve it. We usually serve it with rice.

Get this recipe on the next page >> Happy Chinese New Year (CNY) to all those celebrating this holiday! Yesterday was CNY eve and I cooked a huge pot of chap chye (mixed vegetables stew) for lunch. I brought the rest to my family's reunion dinner and I was quite pleased when I hear that my chap chye was delicious, a compliment especially coming from the older folks. Cap Cay (Indonesian Chop Suey) is popular in Indonesia and originated from China. It can be found in Chinese restaurants there.