Gado-Gado - Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce

Name: Gado-Gado - Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: 200 gram peanut, deep-fried or roasted; 4 cloves garlic; 50 gram palm sugar (Indonesian: gula Jawa); 1 to 10 Thai chilies (Indonesian: cabe rawit), seeded - use as much or as little as you like; 1 tablespoon salt; 1 teaspoon shrimp paste (Indonesian: terasi, Malaysian: belacan), toasted, omit to make a vegetarian sauce; 1 teaspoon tamarind pulp, soaked in 2 tablespoon of warm water to get the juice; juice of 1 lime; 1 tablespoon sweet soy sauce (Indonesian: kecap manis); 2 cup hot water; 4 potatoes, peeled, cubed, and boiled; ketupat/lontong/steamed rice cake; 4 eggs, hard-boiled, peeled, and cut into quarters; deep fried tofu; deep fried tempeh; blanched cabbage (Indonesian: kol); blanched bean sprouts (Indonesian: tauge); blanched snake beans (Indonesian: kacang panjang); blanched spinach (Indonesian: bayam); boiled chayote (Indonesian: labu siam); raw cucumber (Indonesian: timun); fried shallots (Indonesian: bawang goreng); prawn crackers (Indonesian: kerupuk udang); melinjo crackers (Indonesian: emping)

Instructions

Prep:30minCook:1h

Indonesian salad served with a super awesome peanut sauce with a tang of tamarind, sweetness of palm sugar, the umami of shrimp paste, and a kick of chili.

Updated at: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:40:04 GMT