Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings)
Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings)

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, gado gado (indonesian salad with peanut dressings). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Gado-gado is an Indonesian traditional salad with peanut dressing. Originally made from some boiled vegetables such as spinach, water spinach, cabbage, long. This Indonesian salad is true to its name, gado-gado , meaning "potpourri." Assorted vegetables, tofu, eggs, and shrimp chips are dressed in peanut sauce.

Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings) is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook gado gado (indonesian salad with peanut dressings) using 25 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings):
  1. Take Lontong (Indonesian rice cake)
  2. Prepare 2 medium potato, boiled, peeled, cut into small chunks
  3. Take 1 medium cucumber, cut into small chunks
  4. Get 150 gr bean sprouts, put into boiling water for 1 minute, drained
  5. Take 200 gr long beans, trimmed, cut into 1.5 inches pieces, boiled or baby spinach, put into boiling water for 1 minute, drained
  6. Get 2 pieces fried tofu, cut into small chunks
  7. Get 2 pieces fried soy bean cake, cut into small chunks
  8. Take 8 sheets lettuce, cut
  9. Make ready For the sauce:
  10. Take 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  11. Take 3 tsp coconut sugar
  12. Make ready 2 tbsp tamarind juice, from 1 tsp wet tamarind mixed with 2 tbsp water
  13. Prepare 200 ml instant coconut milk
  14. Take 3 kaffir lime leaves, cut away the bones
  15. Prepare 200 gr peanuts, fried, ground
  16. Take For the ground spices:
  17. Prepare 8 cloves garlic
  18. Make ready 5 red peppers
  19. Make ready 1 inch cutchery
  20. Take For the complement:
  21. Prepare 2 tomatoes, divided by 8
  22. Prepare 2 hard cooked large eggs, peeled, halved
  23. Get Emping (Indonesian chips)
  24. Prepare Indonesian crispy crackers
  25. Take Chili sauce (made of 8 bird eyes chili peppers and 4 cloves garlic, boiled, drained, ground)

This is an Indonesian Gado Gado with a fabulous peanut sauce that is true to the authentic flavours but easier to make. Gado Gado - fun to say, delicious to eat, this traditional Indonesian salad is probably the only recipe where you can put the words "blanched vegetables" and "tasty" in the same. I used my food processor to make the sauce which was very easy and turned out great. For those of you who are not familiar with some of the ingredients used in the sauce, I'm posting some photos of the key ingredients below.

Steps to make Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings):
  1. Heat the vegetable oil. Sauté ground spices and kaffir lime leaves until fragrant. Add ground peanuts. Mix well.
  2. Add coconut milk, coconut sugar, and salt. Keep stirring constantly until boiling.
  3. Add tamarind juice. Mix well. Remove from the heat. Set aside.
  4. Arrange rice cake chunks, boiled potato, cucumber, bean sprouts, spinach, fried tofu, fried soy bean cake, and lettuce on a plate. Pour some sauce. Serve with the complement! 😋

This is a light and refreshing salad popular in many parts of Indonesia. Gado-gado can be made for pescetarianisms or pesco vegetarianisms who still consume fish and seafood; it can also be consumed by lacto-ovo vegetarians who include eggs and dairy products in their diet. Also, you can go for vegan by omitting dried shrimp paste (Indonesian: terasi/trassi. We loved Gado-Gado which is Indonesian but the Malay love it also and it is seen on many restaurant menus throughout the country. I love Gado-Gado and this is a very good recipe.

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