How to Make Tasty Gado-gado (Indonesian traditional salad with peanut sauce)

Gado-gado (Indonesian traditional salad with peanut sauce). Gado-gado is my favorite Indonesian salad. 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. I'm very excited to introduce you to another non-Korean recipe that I filmed with my reader Mariksa in Jakarta, Indonesia!

Gado gado, which is a vegetables and compressed rice salad, made with peanut sauce (or cashew nut sauce) dressing, is one of the most common Indonesian street foods available. Although technically a salad or mix, gado gado, especially when it contains compressed rice cakes. Fun fact - Gado Gado means "Mix mix", which is exactly what this dish is about! You can have Gado-gado (Indonesian traditional salad with peanut sauce) using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Gado-gado (Indonesian traditional salad with peanut sauce)

1. You need 6 pcs of small tofu.
2. It's 1 block of Tempe (bean cake).
3. It's 2-3 of potatoes (medium size).
4. You need 4 pcs of carrots.
5. Prepare 250 g of cabbage.
6. Prepare 250 g of bean sprouts.
7. It's 2 bunch of kangkung.
8. It's 4 of eggs.
9. Prepare of Peanut sauce.

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. Indonesian gado gado is a mixure of steamed and fresh vegetables with proteins and a deliciously creamy peanut sauce topping. There are few nations who have succeeded in leaving a definitive mark at the salad bar.

Gado-gado (Indonesian traditional salad with peanut sauce) step by step

1. Cut tofu and tempe into small size, according to your liking.
2. Then fry them and keep aside.
3. Clean and cut potatoes and carrots, and shred the cabbage.
4. You can either steam or boil the vegetables until they are cooked.
5. Keep the kangkung and bean sprouts as it is, you can blanch them after cleaning and keep aside.
6. Hard boiled the eggs then keep aside.
7. Once all the vegetables, tofu, tempe and eggs are cooked then prepare the peanut sauce.
8. This time I'm using ready made sauce so I just add the hot water to the paste, but do follow me for peanut sauce recipe (made from scratch).
9. Then arrange all the ingredients on a bowl or plate.
10. Lastly add the sauce on top, as much as you like.
11. Serve it with hot steamed rice or rice cake. Enjoy!.

Gado-Gado (Indonesian Vegetable Salad With Peanut Sauce). 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. Indonesian Gado Gado is a basically a mix of salad type ingredients along with a few other key items. The star of this dish however is the delicious peanut dressing.