How to Make Appetizing Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado)

How to Make Appetizing Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado). 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!

This Indonesian salad is true to its name, gado-gado, meaning "potpourri." Assorted vegetables, tofu, eggs, and shrimp chips are dressed in peanut sauce.

This is a simplified version of the splendid Indonesian salad called gado gado, which along with satay is practically a national dish, often served with crunchy shrimp crackers.

It uses shortcut ingredients in the sauce–peanut butter, curry paste–to speed things along.

You can cook Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado) using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado)

1. You need of Vegetables (ex:carrot,lettuce,bean sprout,tomato,cucumber etc).

2. It’s of Boiled potato.

3. You need of Rice cake (lontong).

4. It’s of Hard boiled egg.

5. It’s of Fried tofu.

6. You need of Fried tempeh.

7. Prepare of Tapioca crackers (krupuk).

8. You need of Peanut Sauce Dressing.

9. Prepare 6 of garlic cloves.

10. Prepare 1 tbs of chili powder or paprika powder.

11. Prepare 1-2 tsp of tamarind paste or to taste.

12. It’s 100 gr of coconut sugar.

13. It’s 2 tsp of salt.

14. It’s 2 tbs of sugar.

15. It’s to taste of Ground white pepper.

16. You need 150 gr of natural peanut butter (no salt/sugar added).

17. Prepare 500 ml of coconut milk.

18. Prepare 100 ml of water.

19. Prepare of Note :.

20. Prepare of If you don't have peanut butter, use 200 gr ground fried peanut.

21. Prepare of If you don't have coconut sugar, use granulated sugar.

For a spicier dressing, stir in sambal oelek or Sriracha.

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.

Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado) step by step

1. Cut/slice the vegetables as you like. Set aside..

2. Cut the remaining ingredients (potato, rice cake, egg, tofu, tempe) as you like..

3. How to make Peanut Sauce Dressing : fry the garlic clove until golden brown..

4. Put fried garlic, chili powder, peanut butter, coconut milk and water in the blender. Blend all together until smooth..

5. Pour it into a sauce pan. Cook over medium heat..

6. Add coconut sugar, salt and sugar..

7. Stir until it bubbles. Add tamarind paste..

8. Keep stirring it until it boils hard and looks oily. If it hasnt looked oily, keep stirring it and lower the heat down. Make sure to taste it and add sugar/salt/tamarind if needed..

9. When the peanut sauce is ready, cool it down..

10. 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)..

Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing) can be found in the menu of every Indonesian restaurants outside Indonesia.

That shows how popular this dish in Indonesia.

The other popular ones are Nasi Goreng, Bakmi Goreng, and Beef Rendang.

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 alongside super satisfying, protein-packed tofu and tempeh, all smothered in spicy peanut deliciousness.