Gado-gado “Indonesian Vegetable Salad with Peanut Dressing”

Talk about everyday recipes as one of the traditional Indonesian food is very well known to foreign countries is gado-gado, with characteristic fresh vegetables and peanut sauce as gravy is so tasty and tempting in the tongue that we can enjoy anytime. Gado-gado there are several types in the way of cooking and presentation, either directly crushed or cooked first. Here Gado-gado be practical recipes will be discussed.

Ingredients:

• 3 pieces and boiled potatoes peeled, cut into squares
• 100 grams of cabbage thinly sliced
• 2 bunches Leaf Lettuce sliced
• 1 pieces cucumber cut into thin
• 1 pieces tomato cut into thick
• 5 long beans cut into pieces
• broccoli
• 5 pieces lontong (compressed rice cake) cut to taste
• Fried tofu cut into pieces
• Fried tempeh cut
• 4 pieces of chicken eggs, boiled, peeled, and cut into pieces
• 2 tablespoons Rice Flour

Peanut Sauce:

• 100 gr Peanut
• 100 gr Sprouts
• 100 ml coconut milk
• 1 teaspoon Tamarind diluted with 50 ml of warm water
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar ( palm sugar )

Ground spices:

• 8 cloves of Garlic
• 10-20 Red Chili

Directions:

1. First Peanuts fried / roasted and mashed with a pestle or blender and mixed with coconut water after that we stir until blended, then boiled.
2. While waiting for ripe beans, stir fry all the spices until fragrant aromas and ripe issued, and can be entered into the boiling peanut sauce.
3. Do not forget to add the acid water mixed with sugar and salt, and cook until it fit
4. Sauce simmered please continue to use a small stove fire while constantly stirring until all mature, one sign that the food is ready is the seasoning sauce gradually slightly oily and its volume is reduced. Use rice flour so that the sauce is slightly thickened
5. Please cooking stirring constantly, until thickened and boiling all new letup burst can be removed.
6. If all is well so we stayed arrange supplementary materials such as rice cakes, a variety of vegetables and also some pieces of fried tofu and tempeh serving the plate. then pour the peanut sauce. Current prescription ready gado-gado served

Well, so how to make a gado-gado tasty and delicious. If there are less try just added crackers or melinjo, the crisp taste. May also add lemon juice if you want to sour, salty soy sauce or soy sauce can be sweet, or even a spicy sauce also be. Enjoy suit your taste