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

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, gado gado (indonesian salad with peanut dressings). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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. This Indonesian salad is true to its name, gado-gado , meaning "potpourri." Assorted vegetables, tofu, eggs, and shrimp chips are dressed in peanut sauce.

Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings) is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first 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 it.

The ingredients needed to make Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings):
  1. Take Lontong (Indonesian rice cake)
  2. Get 2 medium potato, boiled, peeled, cut into small chunks
  3. Prepare 1 medium cucumber, cut into small chunks
  4. Make ready 150 gr bean sprouts, put into boiling water for 1 minute, drained
  5. Prepare 200 gr long beans, trimmed, cut into 1.5 inches pieces, boiled or baby spinach, put into boiling water for 1 minute, drained
  6. Take 2 pieces fried tofu, cut into small chunks
  7. Get 2 pieces fried soy bean cake, cut into small chunks
  8. Make ready 8 sheets lettuce, cut
  9. Take For the sauce:
  10. Prepare 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. Make ready 200 ml instant coconut milk
  14. Get 3 kaffir lime leaves, cut away the bones
  15. Get 200 gr peanuts, fried, ground
  16. Prepare For the ground spices:
  17. Make ready 8 cloves garlic
  18. Prepare 5 red peppers
  19. Make ready 1 inch cutchery
  20. Take For the complement:
  21. Make ready 2 tomatoes, divided by 8
  22. Make ready 2 hard cooked large eggs, peeled, halved
  23. Take 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)

How. do. people. do. it ? When I first learned to cook, I was living at home with my parents and three siblings. 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.

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! 😋

This is a light and refreshing salad popular in many parts of Indonesia. 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. 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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