Hello everybody, I hope you are 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. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. 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 well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Gado Gado / Indonesian style salad with peanut sauce is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook gado gado / indonesian style salad with peanut sauce using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Gado Gado / Indonesian style salad with peanut sauce:
- Make ready Peanut sauce:
- Prepare 200 gr raw peanuts
- Make ready 1/2 tsp chili powder
- Prepare 1/4 tsp tamarind paste
- Get 1/4 tsp salt
- Prepare 1/4 tsp sugar
- Make ready 1-2 pcs green/red chili
- Make ready 10 gr chopped onion/garlic (optional)
- Take 3 tbsp cooking oil
- Get 50 ml water
- Make ready Boiled Vegetable (any choices such as cabbage, green beans, potatoes, bean sprouts, fried tofu, okra, spinach)
- Take Boiled eggs
The peanut sauce is the essential dressing that make it a gado-gado. It brings together the different taste. In the west of the island, however, you're more likely to find a style of gado gado that is pre-mixed with the peanut sauce and then served all together on your plate. In Jakarta, you might taste a gado gado boplo that uses cashews instead of peanuts.
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.
In the west of the island, however, you're more likely to find a style of gado gado that is pre-mixed with the peanut sauce and then served all together on your plate. In Jakarta, you might taste a gado gado boplo that uses cashews instead of peanuts. The great thing about gado gado (whose name literally means 'mix-mix) is its versatility. Indonesian Gado Gado is a basically a mix of salad type ingredients along with a few other key items. Gado Gado literally means mix-mix so you get the idea, pretty much anything goes.
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