Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings). This Indonesian salad is true to its name, gado-gado , meaning "potpourri." Assorted vegetables, tofu, eggs, and shrimp chips are dressed in peanut sauce. The dish these hawkers are making, gado-gado , is true to its name, which means "potpourri." The salad lends itself to creativity; nearly. Gado-gado is my favorite Indonesian salad.

Aisha Nanor Martin's spicy Indonesian salad has it all; crunchy vegetables, boiled eggs, chilli peanut sauce, fresh coriander, fried tofu and a sprinkling of prawn crackers for added crunch. 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. You can have Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings) using 25 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings)

It's of Lontong (Indonesian rice cake).
You need 2 of medium potato, boiled, peeled, cut into small chunks.
It's 1 of medium cucumber, cut into small chunks.
It's 150 gr of bean sprouts, put into boiling water for 1 minute, drained.
You need 200 gr of long beans, trimmed, cut into 1.5 inches pieces, boiled or baby spinach, put into boiling water for 1 minute, drained.
Prepare 2 pieces of fried tofu, cut into small chunks.
You need 2 pieces of fried soy bean cake, cut into small chunks.
You need 8 sheets of lettuce, cut.
You need of For the sauce:.
Prepare 1 tbsp of vegetable oil.
It's 3 tsp of coconut sugar.
It's 2 tbsp of tamarind juice, from 1 tsp wet tamarind mixed with 2 tbsp water.
Prepare 200 ml of instant coconut milk.
It's 3 of kaffir lime leaves, cut away the bones.
You need 200 gr of peanuts, fried, ground.
Prepare of For the ground spices:.
Prepare 8 cloves of garlic.
It's 5 of red peppers.
You need 1 inch of cutchery.
Prepare of For the complement:.
You need 2 of tomatoes, divided by 8.
You need 2 of hard cooked large eggs, peeled, halved.
It's of Emping (Indonesian chips).
It's of Indonesian crispy crackers.
It's of 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. 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.

Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings) instructions

Heat the vegetable oil. Sauté ground spices and kaffir lime leaves until fragrant. Add ground peanuts. Mix well..
Add coconut milk, coconut sugar, and salt. Keep stirring constantly until boiling..
Add tamarind juice. Mix well. Remove from the heat. Set aside..
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! 😋.

Many of the vegetables ingredients are either blanched or cooked or sometimes fresh. A popular street dish in Indonesia, gado gado ("mix-mix") is just the thing to shake up your weeknight routine. Hard-cooked eggs, toasted tofu, bean sprouts, and vegetables come together with drizzles of spicy, habit-forming peanut sauce. This is a light and refreshing salad popular in many parts of Indonesia. Gado gado is absolutely one of my favorite Indonesian salad.