Gado-gado mixed vegetable salad with Indonesian peanut sauce is an incredibly vibrant and flavorful dish that originated in Indonesia. This popular salad is a harmonious blend of fresh vegetables, hard-boiled eggs, fried tofu, and crispy krupuk crackers, all generously coated in a rich and delectable peanut sauce. The combination of textures and flavors in gado-gado is simply irresistible, making it a beloved dish among Indonesians and food enthusiasts worldwide.
Here are our top 6 tried and tested recipes!
GADO-GADO - INDONESIAN SALAD WITH PEANUT SAUCE
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.
Provided by Anita Jacobson
Categories One Dish Meal Salad Sauce Vegetarian
Time 1h30m
Number Of Ingredients 24
Steps:
- Using a food processor, grind peanuts, garlic, palm sugar, chilies, terasi/belacan/shrimp paste, and salt. Try to stop when the peanuts still have some chunks and not completely turned into a smooth paste.
- Transfer the peanut mixture into a mixing bowl, add tamarind juice, lime juice, and sweet soy sauce.
- Then add enough hot water to the mixture while stirring to get the consistency of the peanut sauce that you like.
- Arrange all gado-gado ingredients in a plate/bowl, the carbs, the protein, and the vegetables. Garnish with fried shallots and crackers. Serve the peanut sauce in a separate bowl.
- Just prior to eating the salad, pour the peanut sauce and mix well.
GADO GADO (INDONESIAN SALAD WITH PEANUT SAUCE)
Recipe video above. Fun to say, delicious to eat, the Gado Gado peanut sauce will make any vegetables into a big, healthy, tasty meal! Use any veg you want - the ones I've used are in the spirit of traditional Indonesian Gado Gado. Using Thai Red Curry Paste is an effective shortcut - it uses a lot of the ingredients used in Gado Gado sauce. Saves time, effort and money!All the veg can be warm or at room temp, so cook them first. Tempeh/tofu is best hot and crispy fresh out of the skillet.
Provided by Nagi
Categories Main Course Side Salad
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- Mix all ingredients in a small saucepan over medium low heat. Bring to simmer then cook for 5 minutes, stirring regularly so the bottom doesn't catch, until it thickens. If too thick, just add more water - should be able to drizzle it (see video for thickness).
- Taste and adjust as follows: lime for more sour, salt, sugar for sweet.
- Cover and keep warm.
- Bring a saucepan of water to the boil.
- Add potatoes and cook for 5 minutes or until cooked through. Use a slotted spoon to transfer to colander to drain.
- Cook beansprouts for 3 minutes or until just wilted. Transfer to colander, press out excess water.
- Add spinach, push under to submerge - will instantly wilt. Remove, transfer to colander, press out excess water.
- Slice into 0.75 x 5 cm / 1/3 x 2" slices (or thereabouts).
- Heat oil in a skillet over medium high heat. Cook tempeh 2 min on each side until deep golden and crispy. (Tofu ~ 1 1/2 min)
- Either make one platter for sharing, or individual. Vegetables and egg can be served warm or at room temp, sauce should be served warm (it thickens when cool).
- Place vegetables and tempeh on serving plate, top with egg.
- Pour sauce into serving bowl.
- Serve Gado Gado Salad with peanut sauce, peanuts for sprinkling, fresh chillies and prawn crackers on the side.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 572 kcal, Carbohydrate 48 g, Protein 32 g, Fat 33 g, SaturatedFat 10 g, Cholesterol 187 mg, Sodium 502 mg, Fiber 10 g, Sugar 15 g, ServingSize 1 serving
GADO GADO (MIXED VEGETABLE SALAD WITH INDONESIAN PEANUT SAUCE)
Steps:
- Cook the potatoes in boiling salted water for 20 to 25 minutes, until fork-tender. Peel and cut into 2-inch (5-cm) cubes.
- Prepare a bowl or tub of ice water. Blanch the cabbage for 1 to 2 minutes, until translucent and wilted, and transfer to the ice bath. When cool, drain on kitchen towels. Set aside. Repeat with the spinach (30 seconds to 1 minute), bean sprouts (30 seconds to 1 minute) and green beans (3 to 4 minutes).
- Arrange the vegetables, eggs and tofu or tempeh on a large platter. Serve with a bowl of Indonesian Peanut Sauce, with the vegetable chips and fried shallots on small plates alongside. Each diner should pick and choose an assortment of ingredients to put on their plate. Drizzle 2 to 3 tablespoons of peanut sauce over the vegetables and top with vegetable chips and fried shallots. Stir everything together and enjoy!
GADO-GADO RECIPE (INDONESIAN SALAD WITH PEANUT SAUCE)
Gado-gado recipe, an easy mixed salad from Indonesia, made up of cooked and raw items, served with a delicious peanut sauce, like satay.
Provided by Azlin Bloor
Categories Main Course Salad
Number Of Ingredients 27
Steps:
- Place your pulp in the first bowl and pour the hot water over it. Leave to soak for 10 minutes, mashing with a fork halfway through, to loosen the pulp.
- At the end of 10 minutes, mash it up well with your fingers. Strain the tamarind mix through a large mesh sieve or strainer, pushing down on the pulp in the strainer. You don't want a fine mesh, as you won't get the essence of the tamarind juice which will be too big to go through. Set aside until needed.
- Place the raw or blanched peanuts in a small frying pan over medium heat and toast for 5 minutes. Turn the heat down to medium-low after 2 minutes, so the peanuts don't brown too quickly and burn.Keep tossing and flipping the peanuts until they are a light brown colour and giving off a sweet and nutty aroma.
- When done, tip the nuts onto a large, flat plate and leave to cool for for at least 15 minutes while you get the other ingredients going.
- Place the toasted peanuts in a chopper and pulse to a fine state. Set aside for adding to the sauce.
- Halve the onion, and roughly chop the chillies.
- Add the onion, garlic, chillies and dried shrimp to a food chopper and chop to a fine state. You could also use a pestle and mortar for this.
- Heat the oil in a mdium saucepan over medium heat.
- Fry the ground ingredients for 2 minutes.
- Tip in the peanuts and tamarind juice. Stir, then pour in the water and give it a stir to mix well. Bring to a simmer.
- Add the coconut milk, palm sugar, kaffir lime leaves, sweet soy sauce and salt. Give it a good stir and bring back to a simmer. Lower the heat down and simmer for 5 minutes.I like the sauce to be fairly thick, so that it will stick to whatever you dip into it. If you want to drizzle it, just add a little more water to make it slightly runnier.
- Take it off the heat and stir in the lime juice. Check seasoning, and add a little more salt if you need it. The sauce is meant to be strong in flavour, like any salad dressing, as it's meant to be eaten with unseasoned vegetables.Leave the sauce until you are ready to serve.It can be made up to 2 days ahead and stored in the fridge, covered.The sauce is served at room temperature, but you can have it hot, if you prefer.
- Eggs - boil the eggs, cool and peel them. Then halve or quarter them.
- Potatoes - scrub clean, then cut into bite-sized cubes. Boil them for about 7 minutes until a knife glides through easily. This will depend on the size of your cubes. Drain and set aside.
- Tempeh and Tofu - cut into bite-sized cubes and fry separately in a frying pan until crisp and lightly browned, about 3 minutes for each. Drain onto kitchen paper lined plates and set aside.
- Spinach - you can quickly blanch this in a pot of simmering water, or do like I do and use the microwave oven. Give them about 60 seconds, tossing halfway, so they cook uniformly.
- Green beans & Beansprouts - I prefer to leave these raw but you can blanch them in a pot of simmering water.
- Cucumber - cut these into sticks or chop them up roughly into bite-sized pieces like when served with satay.
- Cabbage - shred them or cut them into bite-sized pieces. Leave them raw or blanch them, if you like.
- Tomatoes - halve or quarter, depending on size of the tomatoes you are using. I tend to leave cherry tomatoes whole.
- Salad Leaves - leave them whole or cut them, it's matter of preference.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 545 kcal, Carbohydrate 37 g, Protein 26 g, Fat 36 g, SaturatedFat 14 g, TransFat 1 g, Cholesterol 109 mg, Sodium 372 mg, Fiber 8 g, Sugar 10 g, UnsaturatedFat 20 g, ServingSize 1 serving
GADO-GADO (INDONESIAN VEGGIE SALAD IN A SPICY PEANUT DRESSING
This is the most famous salad the land of Indonesia offers. It has an interesting combo of textures and falvours since it comes both raw and cooked veggies that are served with a spicy peanut sauce. It may be served hot in winter or at room temperature in summer. It makes a perfect light lunch on its own or a full meal when combined with Vegetarian Nasi Goreng (Indonesian fried rice) and other side dishes. I got this recipe from the Food column by Anjali Vellody, Weekend magazine.
Provided by Charishma_Ramchanda
Categories Indonesian
Time 1h
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- Put the coconut in a blender.
- Add 1 cup of hot{not boiling} water.
- Cover and blend on high speed for about 1/2 a minute.
- Heat the oil in a 2 quart-sized saucepan.
- Toss in the onion and garlic.
- Stir-fry for 5 minutes.
- Stir in the remaining ingredients for the dressing and the blended coconut-water mixture.
- Bring to a boil, stirring continuosuly as you do so.
- Lower flame and allow the sauce to simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until it thickens.
- This takes about 3 minutes.
- Now, start preparing the salad.
- In a bowl, put the cabbage and bean sprouts.
- Add enough boiling water over these veggies to cover'em.
- Let this stand for 2 minutes.
- Drain completely.
- In a pan, fry the bean curd in oil, over medium flame, turning the pieces over gently, until it is light brown in colour.
- Remove and drain on clean kitchen paper towels.
- Toss in the potatoes into the same skillet.
- Stir and cook until they turn light brownish in colour.
- On a beautiful silver platter, arrange the bean sprouts, cabbage and other veggies nicely.
- Pour the warm dressing over the salad or serve it separately as a dip- your choice!
- Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 443.4, Fat 30.6, SaturatedFat 11.4, Sodium 218.3, Carbohydrate 36.9, Fiber 6.7, Sugar 21.9, Protein 12.1
MIXED VEGETABLE SALAD WITH PEANUT SAUCE (GADO-GADO)
Make and share this Mixed Vegetable Salad with Peanut Sauce (Gado-Gado) recipe from Food.com.
Provided by LikeItLoveIt
Categories Lunch/Snacks
Time 35m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- (a variety of the following): cabbage, in 1-inch squares; bean sprouts; carrots, sliced or julienned; green beans, in 2-inch pieces; potatoes or sweet potatoes in large dice; sliced cucumbers; watercress sprigs; tomato wedges.
- This is from a new cookbook I just got.
- Haven't tried this recipe yet, but it looks dead on.
- This is a rather free-form salad of lightly cooked vegetables; the exact contents depend on what is available.
- What makes it gado-gado is the dressing, a creamy peanut sauce.
- Remove tofu from package and drain.
- Place on a plate lined with cloth or paper towels, top with another layer of towel and an inverted plate, and place a weight of a pound or more on top.
- Let stand for 30 minutes, unwrap, and discard liquid.
- Cut tofu into bite-sized squares or triangles and sprinkle with kecap manis.
- Fry in 350F oil until golden brown and puffy; transfer to paper towels to drain.
- Reserve oil to cook peanuts.
- One at a time, blanch vegetables in lightly salted water, rinsing them in cold water to stop cooking as soon as they reach the desired degree of doneness.
- Cabbage and bean sprouts require only a few seconds; carrots, green beans, and potatoes may take several minutes depending on size and tenderness.
- Do not blanch cucumbers, watercress, and tomatoes.
- use them raw.
- Place Gado-Gado Sauce in a small bowl in the center of a large platter.
- Arrange vegetables on platter around sauce.
- Garnish with wedges or slices of hard-cooked egg and fried onion flakes.
- To serve, spoon some sauce onto each plate and dip vegetables into sauce.
- Serves 4 to 6 with other dishes.
- --------------GADO-GADOSAUCE----------------.
- To prepare sauce in a mortar: Pound garlic, shallot, galangal, shrimp paste, and chile to a paste.
- To prepare sauce in a blender: Chop together in a 1-cup jar.
- In a wok or deep skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat until a peanut sizzles on contact.
- Fry peanuts until lightly browned; transfer to paper towels to drain.
- When peanuts have cooled, grind in a mortar or food processor to a coarse, grainy paste, adding a little oil if necessary to facilitate blending.
- (May be made up to a week ahead and stored covered in refrigerator.) Remove all but 2 tablespoons oil from pan and reserve for another use.
- Return pan to medium-low heat and add pounded mixture.
- Cook until quite fragrant, but do not burn.
- Add peanuts, sugar, and coconut milk and bring to a boil, stirring.
- Simmer until thick and season to taste with salt and lime juice.
- Allow to coot to room temperature before serving.
Tips:
- Fresh is Best: Use the freshest vegetables possible for the best flavor and texture.
- Variety is Key: Don't be afraid to mix and match different vegetables. The more variety, the more delicious your gado-gado will be.
- Blanch Your Vegetables: Blanching the vegetables helps to preserve their color and crispness.
- Make the Peanut Sauce Ahead of Time: The peanut sauce can be made ahead of time and stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. This will save you time when you're ready to assemble the salad.
- Serve Gado-Gado Immediately: Gado-gado is best served immediately after it's made. The vegetables will start to wilt if they sit for too long.
Conclusion:
Gado-gado is a delicious and healthy Indonesian salad that's perfect for a light lunch or dinner. It's easy to make and can be tailored to your own taste preferences. With its vibrant colors and flavors, gado-gado is sure to be a hit at your next party or gathering.
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