Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive 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 will be really delicious.
Gado-gado is an Indonesian traditional salad with peanut dressing. Originally made from some boiled vegetables such as spinach, water spinach, cabbage, long. 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 foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressings) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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):
- Make ready Lontong (Indonesian rice cake)
- Get 2 medium potato, boiled, peeled, cut into small chunks
- Take 1 medium cucumber, cut into small chunks
- Get 150 gr bean sprouts, put into boiling water for 1 minute, drained
- Take 200 gr long beans, trimmed, cut into 1.5 inches pieces, boiled or baby spinach, put into boiling water for 1 minute, drained
- Take 2 pieces fried tofu, cut into small chunks
- Make ready 2 pieces fried soy bean cake, cut into small chunks
- Take 8 sheets lettuce, cut
- Make ready For the sauce:
- Take 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- Make ready 3 tsp coconut sugar
- Prepare 2 tbsp tamarind juice, from 1 tsp wet tamarind mixed with 2 tbsp water
- Take 200 ml instant coconut milk
- Get 3 kaffir lime leaves, cut away the bones
- Get 200 gr peanuts, fried, ground
- Take For the ground spices:
- Prepare 8 cloves garlic
- Get 5 red peppers
- Take 1 inch cutchery
- Get For the complement:
- Get 2 tomatoes, divided by 8
- Get 2 hard cooked large eggs, peeled, halved
- Take Emping (Indonesian chips)
- Take Indonesian crispy crackers
- Prepare 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. 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):
- 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! 😋
This is a light and refreshing salad popular in many parts of Indonesia. Gado-gado can be made for pescetarianisms or pesco vegetarianisms who still consume fish and seafood; it can also be consumed by lacto-ovo vegetarians who include eggs and dairy products in their diet. Also, you can go for vegan by omitting dried shrimp paste (Indonesian: terasi/trassi. 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.
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