Recipe: Tasty Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce)

Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce). 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 That Gado Gado peanut sauce is a miracle worker! A Bali food favourite, it's healthy and endlessly versatile. Use ANY vegetables - raw or cooked!

There are few nations who have succeeded in leaving a definitive mark at the salad bar. 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 have Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce) using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce)

1. It's Half of bunch of kangkung (you can replace with spinach or).
2. Prepare of sprouts.
3. It's of Cabbage.
4. You need of Cucumber.
5. You need 2 blocks of tofu.
6. It's of Lime juice.
7. Prepare 50 g of palm sugar.
8. It's 100 g of peanuts.
9. You need 3 of chillies.
10. Prepare 1 teaspoon of salt.
11. It's of Egg(s).
12. It's of Water.

Typically, gado-gado (which translates to mix-mix) is a hearty Indonesian salad with cooked and fresh vegetables (customized based on what's available Gado-gado peanut sauce uses ground peanuts, palm sugar, garlic, chilies, tamarind, lime juice, and salt. To save time, we're using peanut butter. Students can score a free Whopper from Burger King if they pass this test. Joy Bauer's healthier desserts: fudge bites and cookies.

Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce) instructions

1. Fry the peanuts untill it gets brownish.
2. While frying your peanuts. Boil all your vegetables along with the egg(s). Watch it out, don't let it overcooked :D.
3. After you're done with the peanuts. Fry your tofu..
4. Then. The peanut sauce... You can actually grind it for tastier taste. But I was kinda lazy that I chose to blend it using blender hehe. So put together the fried peanuts, palm sugar, chillies, pinch of salt and water. And blend it untill it is mixed. For the texture, keep it not too thick nor watery. So my advice is to pour the water little by little..
5. Last thing is to put them together in one plate. Mix the peanut sauce with the boiled veggies and add little more taste with the lime juice..

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. Gado Gado (literally meaning 'mix mix' in Indonesian) translates to BIG BOWL OF YUM in our books. It's got that healthy mix of raw and blanched veggies One featured mainly fried tofu and bean shoots doused in that mouth-watering homemade peanut sauce, dished up by our new friend Usman from.