Gado-gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce)
Gado-gado is a vegetable salad with a peanut sauce dressing.
Total
00:40
Yield
4
Ingredients
- 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
- 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
- Total:
- 00:40
- Yield:
- 4
Instructions
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1Fry prawn paste with vegetable oil until fragrant.
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2Fry the peanuts until golden brown. Remove from the pan and leave to cool, then drain off all but a little of the excess oil.
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3Grind the peanuts to a paste.
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4Add ground chili pepper, garlic, salt, sugar, and prawn paste to the peanut paste. Grind to mix.
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5Put peanut paste in a pan, add some water to dissolve (use coconut milk for a richer taste).
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6Add additional sugar into the peanut sauce to taste, and bring to the boil.
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7Simmer peanut sauce until thick, and season with the lime juice or vinegar.
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8Remove the skin from the boiled potatoes. Deep fry the potatoes until golden brown, then slice.
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9Wash, shred, or chop cabbage, spinach, and water spinach.
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10Boil water in a pan. Add cabbage, and cook until tender. Drain.
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11Use strained boiling water to boil the spinach and water spinach, one after another. Drain.
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12Blanch bean sprouts for about 30 seconds. Drain.
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13Peel chayote, wash, slice, and boil until tender.
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14Wash and slice cucumber.
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15Place the salad, sliced potatoes, fried tofu, fried tempeh, and eggs in a large plate, either randomly or in layers.
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16Pour the peanut sauce over the salad.
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17Spread deep fried shallots on top, and serve with kerupuk.
- Category
- Salads
- Cuisine
- Indonesian
Recipe Attribution
Printed from recipe.exchange
https://recipe.exchange/recipes/wb-24395
Printed on October 30, 2026