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

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, gado gado (indonesian salad with peanut dressings). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This Indonesian salad is true to its name, gado-gado , meaning "potpourri." Assorted vegetables, tofu, eggs, and shrimp chips are dressed in peanut sauce. So important is rice in the typical Indonesian meal that one Since most of the vegetables in this salad are cooked, and as far as I can recall, I have never seen someone enjoy this. Gado-gado (Indonesian or Betawi) is an Indonesian salad of slightly boiled, blanched or steamed vegetables and hard-boiled eggs, boiled potato, fried tofu and tempeh, and lontong.

Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings) is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook gado gado (indonesian salad with peanut dressings) using 25 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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

This is a light and refreshing salad popular in many parts of Indonesia. Indonesian Gado Gado is a basically a mix of salad type ingredients along with a few other key items. Gado Gado literally means mix-mix so you get The star of this dish however is the delicious peanut dressing. Many of the vegetables ingredients are either blanched or cooked or sometimes fresh.

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! 😋

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. I sometimes put the salad on a bed of Watrecress (when available) Thanks Carol. Gado gado is absolutely one of my favorite Indonesian salad. The salad is usually built on mainly cooked vegetables, though sometimes there's a Gado gado sauce is made with ground peanuts, spices, herbs, kecap manis and coconut milk.

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