How to Cook Gado-Gado (Indonesian Salad)

This time, I will share how to cook gado-gado. Do you know what gado-gado is?

Gado-gado is a dish originated from Jakarta, a city in Indonesia. It is like a salad with peanut sauce as a dressing sauce. Usually, it accompanies with lontong (rice cakes) or rice, whichever you like. 

It contains lots of vegetables, such as potato, cucumber, green bean, cabbage, bean sprout, kangkung (watercress), hard-boiled egg, etc.

For I live far from my home country, Indonesia, in this recipe, I will share how to cook gado-gado with minimal ingredients, but I promise even with minimal ingredients, we still could make this dish.

Here are the ingredients:

Peanuts

Shallots

Garlic

Potato
Kangkung (watercress)

Tofu

Some water

Sugar

Salt

How to cook:                          

Making the peanut sauce

In the wok, fried peanuts with little oil and medium heat. Try not to overcook the peanut. Set aside.

Blend the peanut in the food processor with some water, garlic, and sugar. After soft and incorporated, put the peanut sauce on the plate.

                                                                               

Cooking the Vegetables

Boil the kangkung (watercress) in the water for about 2-3 minutes. Set aside. Grab the potato. Peel and slice thinly. Fry the potato into the hot oils and remove it from the heat. Set aside.

Rinse the tofu and cut into small pieces. Fry the tofu in the wok with some hot oils. Remove from the heat and set aside.

Peel some shallots and slice thinly. Fry them in the wok. 

Assemble all the food

Assemble all the food on the plate. Do not forget to add some salt to the peanut sauce. Mix it well.

Food finished

Here is the final result of the cooking. To make our recipe more complete, we usually add with some tapioka crackers for the side dish.

 

 

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