Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado). 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. Gado-gado is my favorite Indonesian salad.
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. 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. You can cook 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)
- Prepare of Vegetables (ex:carrot,lettuce,bean sprout,tomato,cucumber etc).
- It's of Boiled potato.
- You need of Rice cake (lontong).
- You need of Hard boiled egg.
- You need of Fried tofu.
- It's of Fried tempeh.
- Prepare of Tapioca crackers (krupuk).
- Prepare of Peanut Sauce Dressing.
- It's 6 of garlic cloves.
- Prepare 1 tbs of chili powder or paprika powder.
- Prepare 1-2 tsp of tamarind paste or to taste.
- It's 100 gr of coconut sugar.
- Prepare 2 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 2 tbs of sugar.
- You need to taste of Ground white pepper.
- Prepare 150 gr of natural peanut butter (no salt/sugar added).
- Prepare 500 ml of coconut milk.
- It's 100 ml of water.
- It's 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. 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.
Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado) step by step
- 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)..
Many of the vegetables ingredients are either blanched or cooked or sometimes fresh. Gado-gado (Indonesian or Betawi) is an Indonesian salad of slightly boiled, blanched or steamed vegetables and hard-boiled eggs, boiled potato, fried tofu and tempeh, and lontong. Another common Indonesian dish based on peanut sauce is ketoprak, a Jakarta originating dish that includes pieces of tofu, and rice vermicelli noodles, all flavored with sweet salty peanut sauce. 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.