Recipe: Yummy Gado-gado (Indonesian traditional salad with peanut sauce)

Gado-gado (Indonesian traditional salad with peanut sauce). 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.

Gado-Gado - Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Gado-gado is my favorite Indonesian salad. This Sundanese dish is a national favorite, and it consists of lightly boiled and blanched vegetables, hard-boiled eggs, boiled potatoes, fried tofu and/or tempeh cubes, and lontong (steamed rice cakes) served with spicy peanut sauce. Indonesian Vegetable Salad with Peanut Dressing (Gado-Gado) This popular Indonesian salad lends itself to creativity; nearly any combination of raw and cooked vegetables, along with rice or thin. You can have Gado-gado (Indonesian traditional salad with peanut sauce) using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Gado-gado (Indonesian traditional salad with peanut sauce)

1. Prepare 6 pcs of small tofu.
2. It's 1 block of Tempe (bean cake).
3. It's 2-3 of potatoes (medium size).
4. It's 4 pcs of carrots.
5. You need 250 g of cabbage.
6. You need 250 g of bean sprouts.
7. You need 2 bunch of kangkung.
8. It's 4 of eggs.
9. You need of Peanut sauce.

Gado Gado with Spicy Peanut Sauce An Indonesian-inspired bowl made with brown rice, vegetables, and spicy peanut sauce. Incredibly customizable and perfect for a simple, basic yet hearty meal. Gado Gado is an Indonesian cold salad of blanched, steamed or fresh vegetables of your choice, plus hard-boiled eggs & tofu served with a peanut satay sauce. There is no strict rule about what vegetables you choose to add to Gado Gado, so have fun creating your own platter of veggies.

Gado-gado (Indonesian traditional salad with peanut sauce) step by step

1. Cut tofu and tempe into small size, according to your liking.
   
   
2. Then fry them and keep aside.
   
3. Clean and cut potatoes and carrots, and shred the cabbage.
   
   
4. You can either steam or boil the vegetables until they are cooked.
5. Keep the kangkung and bean sprouts as it is, you can blanch them after cleaning and keep aside.
6. Hard boiled the eggs then keep aside.
7. Once all the vegetables, tofu, tempe and eggs are cooked then prepare the peanut sauce.
8. 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).
9. Then arrange all the ingredients on a bowl or plate.
10. Lastly add the sauce on top, as much as you like.
11. Serve it with hot steamed rice or rice cake. Enjoy!.

You can throw in some prawn crackers for that extra crunch. Gado-gado (in Bahasa Indonesian or Betawi Malay, the language of Jakarta), also known as lotek (in Sundanese and Javanese), is an Indonesian salad of various blanched or steamed vegetables, also accompanied with hard-boiled eggs, boiled potatoes, fried tofu, tempeh, as well chopped as lontong or ketupat (rice cake), that is served with a spicy peanut sauce dressing. This is a simplified version of the splendid Indonesian salad called gado gado, which along with satay is practically a national dish, often served with crunchy shrimp crackers. It uses shortcut ingredients in the sauce--peanut butter, curry paste--to speed things along. For a spicier dressing, stir in sambal oelek or Sriracha.