Cookbook:Gado-gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce)

| Indonesian Cuisine

Gado-gado is a vegetable salad with a peanut sauce dressing.

Peanut sauce

 * 1 g terasi (fermented prawn paste)
 * Vegetable oil
 * 300 g peanuts
 * Fresh or dried chile pepper
 * 1 clove garlic
 * Salt
 * 125 g gula jawa (Indonesian palm sugar)
 * 4 shallots
 * Sugar
 * Fresh lime juice or rice vinegar

Salad

 * Hard-boiled eggs, sliced
 * Whole potatoes, steamed or boiled
 * Mixed vegetables (e.g. cabbage, bean sprouts, cucumber, chayote, water spinach, asparagus bean, spinach)
 * Deep fried soybean cake
 * Deep fried tempeh
 * Deep fried kerupuk (fish or prawn crackers)
 * Deep fried shallot

Peanut sauce

 * 1) Fry prawn paste with vegetable oil until fragrant.
 * 2) Fry the peanuts until golden brown. Remove from the pan and leave to cool, then drain off all but a little of the excess oil.
 * 3) Grind the peanuts to a paste.
 * 4) Add ground chili pepper, garlic, salt, sugar, and prawn paste to the peanut paste. Grind to mix.
 * 5) Put peanut paste in a pan, add some water to dissolve (use coconut milk for a richer taste).
 * 6) Add additional sugar into the peanut sauce to taste, and bring to the boil.
 * 7) Simmer peanut sauce until thick, and season with the lime juice or vinegar.

Salad

 * 1) Remove the skin from the boiled potatoes. Deep fry the potatoes until golden brown, then slice.
 * 2) Wash, shred, or chop cabbage, spinach, and water spinach.
 * 3) Boil water in a pan. Add cabbage, and cook until tender. Drain.
 * 4) Use strained boiling water to boil the spinach and water spinach, one after another. Drain.
 * 5) Blanch bean sprouts for about 30 seconds. Drain.
 * 6) Peel chayote, wash, slice, and boil until tender.
 * 7) Wash and slice cucumber.
 * 8) Place the salad, sliced potatoes, fried tofu, fried tempeh, and eggs in a large plate, either randomly or in layers.
 * 9) Pour the peanut sauce over the salad.
 * 10) Spread deep fried shallots on top, and serve with kerupuk.

Notes, tips, and variations

 * Prawn crackers are non-vegetarian. You can substitute them with kerupuk sayur or emping if you wish this dish to be completely vegetarian.
 * Add some kecap manis (Malay/Indonesian sweet soy sauce) to taste.
 * You may substitute the peanut sauce recipe for the procedure here.
 * cashew nuts is secret ingredient to make peanut sauce tastes richer.
 * Some cooks like to blanche or steam the cabbage, cauliflower, and carrots rather than serve them raw.
 * Use chunky peanut butter as substitute for ground peanuts.
 * Use chili sauce to substitute fresh or dried chili pepper.
 * Cauliflower, green beans, watercress, carrots, tomatoes, or peas are sometimes included but less common.

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