Vegetable Salad With Peanut Sauce Recipe - Gado Gado

                          RECIPES OF INDONESIA

If there is one salad that Indonesia is famous for, its got to be Gado Gado. This celebrated vegetable salad is not just widely enjoyed in the country but also commonly found in its peninsula neighbors, Malaysia and Singapore as well.

Ingredients :

100 g

100 g

100 g

100 g

1 piece

4

4

2 tbsp

Peanut Sauce:

500 - 700 g

4 - 5 cloves

10 - 12 pieces

6 - 8 cm

3 pieces

125 ml

1 tbsp

3 tbsp

2 tps

1 1/2 liters

Spinach, blanched

Bean sprout, blanched

Long beans, cut and blanched

Young cabbage, chopped and blanched

Large carrot, sliced and blanched

Hard-boiled eggs, quartered

Squares of bean curd, deep-fried and sliced

Fried shallots

Peanuts, deep fried

Garlic, peeled

Bird's-eyes chilies, sliced

Kencur, peeled and chopped  (commonly known as lesser galangal)

Kaffir lime leaves

Sweet soy sauce

Lime juice

Fried shallots

Salt

Water

• To make the peanut sauce, blend the deep fried peanuts, peeled garlic, bird's-eye chilies and kencur until coarse.
• In a wok, add the blended mixture together with the rest of the sauce ingredients, except the fried shallots and lime juice, and simmer over very low heat for 1 hour. Remember to stir to prevent the mixture from sticking.
• Stir in the fried shallots and lime juice just before use.
• Arrange all the vegetables on a serving dish and pour over the sauce.
• Garnish with eggs and bean curd pieces
• Sprinkle with fried shallots and serve.