Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado)
Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado)

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This Indonesian salad is true to its name, gado-gado, meaning "potpourri." Assorted vegetables, tofu, eggs, and shrimp chips are dressed in peanut sauce. That Gado Gado peanut sauce is a miracle worker! A Bali food favourite, it's healthy and endlessly versatile.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have indonesian salad with peanut sauce dressing (gado-gado) using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado):
  1. Take Vegetables (ex:carrot,lettuce,bean sprout,tomato,cucumber etc)
  2. Get Boiled potato
  3. Prepare Rice cake (lontong)
  4. Make ready Hard boiled egg
  5. Take Fried tofu
  6. Make ready Fried tempeh
  7. Get Tapioca crackers (krupuk)
  8. Make ready Peanut Sauce Dressing
  9. Get 6 garlic cloves
  10. Make ready 1 tbs chili powder or paprika powder
  11. Take 1-2 tsp tamarind paste or to taste
  12. Get 100 gr coconut sugar
  13. Get 2 tsp salt
  14. Make ready 2 tbs sugar
  15. Prepare to taste Ground white pepper
  16. Prepare 150 gr natural peanut butter (no salt/sugar added)
  17. Get 500 ml coconut milk
  18. Prepare 100 ml water
  19. Prepare Note :
  20. Get If you don't have peanut butter, use 200 gr ground fried peanut
  21. Make ready If you don't have coconut sugar, use granulated sugar

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. To make the peanut dressing, put the peanut butter and kecap manis in a bowl and mash together with a fork until smooth and combined. Put the tofu, potatoes, beans, cabbage, cucumber, beansprouts, carrot and coriander in a large bowl or arrange on a platter. 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.

Steps to make Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado):
  1. Cut/slice the vegetables as you like. Set aside.
  2. Cut the remaining ingredients (potato, rice cake, egg, tofu, tempe) as you like.
  3. How to make Peanut Sauce Dressing : fry the garlic clove until golden brown.
  4. Put fried garlic, chili powder, peanut butter, coconut milk and water in the blender. Blend all together until smooth.
  5. Pour it into a sauce pan. Cook over medium heat.
  6. Add coconut sugar, salt and sugar.
  7. Stir until it bubbles. Add tamarind paste.
  8. Keep stirring it until it boils hard and looks oily. If it hasn't looked oily, keep stirring it and lower the heat down. Make sure to taste it and add sugar/salt/tamarind if needed.
  9. When the peanut sauce is ready, cool it down.
  10. How to serve : Put veggies and everything else, except the crackers, onto a serving plate. Drizzle the peanut sauce as much as you like 😊. Put the crackers on top. Enjoy. (The best way to eat it is to mix everything all together).

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. Gado Gado (literally meaning 'mix mix' in Indonesian) translates to BIG BOWL OF YUM in our books. It's got that healthy mix of raw and blanched veggies alongside super satisfying, protein-packed tofu and tempeh, all smothered in spicy peanut deliciousness. Our wandering, eating adventures turned up seemingly endless varieties of this popular salad dish.

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