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

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, gado gado (indonesian salad with peanut dressings). It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. 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 favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings) is something which I have loved my whole life.

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

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

Instructions 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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