Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado). 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 sentence and really mean it. That Gado Gado peanut sauce is a miracle worker! A Bali food favourite, it's healthy and endlessly.
Fun fact - Gado Gado means "Mix mix", which is exactly what this dish is about! The key is in the making of the peanut sauce - combining dried chilli, shallots, lemongrass, balacan, coconut milk and a lot more, it's not surprising that the taste is flavorful and fragrant. It takes a bit of time to come up with. You can have Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado) using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado)
- It's of Vegetables (ex:carrot,lettuce,bean sprout,tomato,cucumber etc).
- Prepare of Boiled potato.
- Prepare of Rice cake (lontong).
- You need of Hard boiled egg.
- You need of Fried tofu.
- You need of Fried tempeh.
- It's of Tapioca crackers (krupuk).
- You need of Peanut Sauce Dressing.
- Prepare 6 of garlic cloves.
- It's 1 tbs of chili powder or paprika powder.
- Prepare 1-2 tsp of tamarind paste or to taste.
- You need 100 gr of coconut sugar.
- It's 2 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 2 tbs of sugar.
- You need to taste of Ground white pepper.
- It's 150 gr of natural peanut butter (no salt/sugar added).
- It's 500 ml of coconut milk.
- It's 100 ml of water.
- You need of Note :.
- You need of If you don't have peanut butter, use 200 gr ground fried peanut.
- You need of If you don't have coconut sugar, use granulated sugar.
For the sauce: ground roasted peanuts, bird's eye chilis, dried shrimp paste (terasi), palm sugar, kosher salt, tamarind, and water. I used my food processor to make the sauce which was very easy and turned out great. Typically, gado-gado (which translates to mix-mix) is a hearty Indonesian salad with cooked and fresh vegetables The peanut sauce in this recipe is a little different from my usual go-to. A popular street dish in Indonesia, gado gado ("mix-mix") is just the thing to shake up your weeknight routine.
Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado) instructions
- Cut/slice the vegetables as you like. Set aside..
- Cut the remaining ingredients (potato, rice cake, egg, tofu, tempe) as you like..
- How to make Peanut Sauce Dressing : fry the garlic clove until golden brown..
- Put fried garlic, chili powder, peanut butter, coconut milk and water in the blender. Blend all together until smooth..
- Pour it into a sauce pan. Cook over medium heat..
- Add coconut sugar, salt and sugar..
- Stir until it bubbles. Add tamarind paste..
- 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..
- When the peanut sauce is ready, cool it down..
- 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)..
Hard-cooked eggs, toasted tofu, bean sprouts, and vegetables come together with drizzles of spicy, habit-forming peanut sauce. 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. And so, in reading "gado gado," or "gado²" the translation could be roughly interpreted as "you This is a light and refreshing salad popular in many parts of Indonesia. I suspect it is of Javanese origin Don't let it sit, because the vegetables have a lot of water that thins out the dressing (a good thing, at.
