Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, gado-gado (indonesian traditional salad with peanut sauce). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Gado Gado is all about the peanut sauce which is a slight variation of Thai Peanut Sauce. When made from scratch, it's a bit of a pain, calling for pureeing roasted peanuts (and it's tough to make it completely smooth), a handful of aromatics like lemongrass, galangal, garlic, South East Asian "umami" from shrimp paste, plus sauces. Indonesian Gado Gado Salad with Peanut Sauce Take your taste buds on a Southeast Asian adventure with this crispy, crunchy, and oh-so-satisfying, Indonesian Gado Gado Salad with Spicy Peanut Sauce. It's a deliciously cooling salad for a hot summer's day, packed with healthy nutrients, protein and incredible spicy peanut flavour.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook gado-gado (indonesian traditional salad with peanut sauce) using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Gado-gado (Indonesian traditional salad with peanut sauce):
- Take 6 pcs small tofu
- Get 1 block Tempe (bean cake)
- Make ready 2-3 potatoes (medium size)
- Make ready 4 pcs carrots
- Prepare 250 g cabbage
- Take 250 g bean sprouts
- Get 2 bunch kangkung
- Take 4 eggs
- Make ready Peanut sauce
Loaded with a variety of vegetable, the carbohydrate in the dish comes from lontong (compressed rice cake) and potatoes. Tofu, egg and tempeh are the protein sources. Divide the Indonesian gado gado between bowls. Top with sliced cucumber and drizzle with spicy peanut sauce.
Instructions to make Gado-gado (Indonesian traditional salad with peanut sauce):
- Cut tofu and tempe into small size, according to your liking
- Then fry them and keep aside
- Clean and cut potatoes and carrots, and shred the cabbage
- You can either steam or boil the vegetables until they are cooked
- Keep the kangkung and bean sprouts as it is, you can blanch them after cleaning and keep aside
- Hard boiled the eggs then keep aside
- Once all the vegetables, tofu, tempe and eggs are cooked then prepare the peanut sauce
- This time I'm using ready made sauce so I just add the hot water to the paste, but do follow me for peanut sauce recipe (made from scratch)
- Then arrange all the ingredients on a bowl or plate
- Lastly add the sauce on top, as much as you like
- Serve it with hot steamed rice or rice cake. Enjoy!
Divide the Indonesian gado gado between bowls. Top with sliced cucumber and drizzle with spicy peanut sauce. Sprinkle garlic chips and fried peanuts over the bowls. Gado gado sauce is not to be confused with satay sauce, which is also a peanut sauce. The traditional method of making the sauce is to use the pestle and mortar.
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