Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, gado gado / indonesian style salad with peanut sauce. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Gado Gado is all about the peanut sauce which is a slight variation of Thai Peanut Sauce. When made from scratch, it's a bit of a pain, calling for pureeing roasted peanuts (and it's tough to make it completely smooth), a handful of aromatics like lemongrass, galangal, garlic, South East Asian "umami" from shrimp paste, plus sauces. Indonesian Gado Gado Salad with Peanut Sauce Take your taste buds on a Southeast Asian adventure with this crispy, crunchy, and oh-so-satisfying, Indonesian Gado Gado Salad with Spicy Peanut Sauce. It's a deliciously cooling salad for a hot summer's day, packed with healthy nutrients, protein and incredible spicy peanut flavour.
Gado Gado / Indonesian style salad with peanut sauce is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Gado Gado / Indonesian style salad with peanut sauce is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have gado gado / indonesian style salad with peanut sauce using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Gado Gado / Indonesian style salad with peanut sauce:
- Prepare Peanut sauce:
- Get 200 gr raw peanuts
- Prepare 1/2 tsp chili powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp tamarind paste
- Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
- Get 1/4 tsp sugar
- Make ready 1-2 pcs green/red chili
- Get 10 gr chopped onion/garlic (optional)
- Make ready 3 tbsp cooking oil
- Prepare 50 ml water
- Take Boiled Vegetable (any choices such as cabbage, green beans, potatoes, bean sprouts, fried tofu, okra, spinach)
- Get Boiled eggs
Gado-Gado - Indonesian 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. Gado gado is one of the well known dishes from Indonesia. Although it looks like a salad dish, gado gado is also eaten as a one dish meal in Indonesia.
Instructions to make Gado Gado / Indonesian style salad with peanut sauce:
- In my case, I use raw peanuts. If you have unsalted roasted peanuts, it is easier. You may skip the pan fried peanuts in oil. In a pan, heat 3 tbsp cooking oil, pan fry the peanuts for 5-8 minutes. Transfer it on the plate with napkin. Let it cool down. Afterward, remove the skin of the peanuts (optional). I do it to reduce the bitterness of the peanuts skin.
- Ground the peanuts with food processor/mortar and pestle. Add little dash of oil, salt, sugar/palm sugar, chili powder, fresh chili.
- Ground it for 1-2 minutes. It is done and you may store it in the fridge.
- When you want to eat it, take 2 tbsp of peanut paste and mix it well with 3-4 tbsp water and 1/4 tsp tamarind paste (optional). Mix it well. You may add water if you like the sauce thinner.
- Other options: in a non-stick pan, heat 1 tsp cooking oil, stir fry chopped onions, add the peanut pastes, tamarind paste, 2 tbsp water. Stir fry it in low heat until the paste a bit thicker.
- Prepare the boiled vegetables, eggs, fried tofu and anything that you love, crackers.
- Pour the peanut sauce on top of boiled vegetables. Enjoy it.
Gado gado is one of the well known dishes from Indonesia. Although it looks like a salad dish, gado gado is also eaten as a one dish meal in Indonesia. Loaded with a variety of vegetable, the carbohydrate in the dish comes from lontong (compressed rice cake) and potatoes. Tofu, egg and tempeh are the protein sources. Indonesian Gado Gado is a basically a mix of salad type ingredients along with a few other key items.
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