Gado Gado Recipe

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Gado-gado is one of the well-known dishes from Indonesia. Gado-gado literally means “mix mix” since gado-gado is the plural word of gado, so gado-gado means mixes. In Indonesia, gado-gado is not a salad dish group, it is a one dish meal.

Speaking about gado-gado in Indonesia, several different numbers of gado-gado were developed based on the region. In East Java (around Surabaya), it's called Gado-gado Siram or Gado-gado Surabaya. Siram means pour as we order the food, the seller will place the ingredients (lontong, blanched vegetables, steamed potatoes, boiled eggs, tempe, tofu, etc.) on a plate and then pre-made gado-gado sauce is poured over, garnish with fried shallots and top with crackers (melinjo nuts and shrimp crackers). While in West Java (around Bandung and Bogor), the sellers will combine ground peanuts and spices, grind them in a mortar and pestle, add the cooked vegetables, mix them together, and transfer into a plate.

In addition, Gado-gado has carbohydrate supply from lontong and potatoes. Tempe, tofu and eggs are the protein sources. Last but not least, the vegetables.

Recipe: Gado-Gado Surabaya

(Gado-Gado Siram)

Ingredients:

Blanched/steamed vegetables

long green beans, cut into 4-5 cm long

Chinese cabbage, shredded

Bean sprouts

Fresh Vegetables:

Lettuce

Tomato, wedged

Cucumber, sliced

Other Complements:

Boiled/steamed potatoes, sliced

Boiled eggs, wedged

Fried/baked tempe

Fried/baked tofu

Lontong (rice cake with log shape), cut into 1 cm thick

Ready-to-use fried shallot

Melinjo nuts crackers

Shrimp crackers

Gado-gado sauce:

10 cloves garlic, stir fried/fried/roasted

300 g roasted/fried peanuts (In this case, I used 1 cup of organic crunchy peanut butter)

1000 ml coconut milk

10 red chilies, discard the seed and stir fried/fried

1 tsp terasi (dried shrimp paste), toasted

1 block of coconut sugar (about 62.5 grams)

2-3 tbsp rice flour dissolve in a small amount of water

Sambal:

20 red bird eyes chilies, boiled /steamed

1/2 tsp sugar

Sea salt as desired

Directions or method to prepare gado-gado:

Gado-Gado Sauce

1. Process garlic, peanuts/peanut butter, a half part of coconut milk, red chilies, terasi, coconut sugar in a food processor or blender.

2. In a sauce pot, combine processed mixture with the rest of coconut milk, stir and turn on the stove at low-medium heat. Stir occasionally.

3. Cook sauce until boiled, the volume reduced and the sauce surface looks a bit oily. Add rice flour mixture. Keep stirring until bubbling about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat.

Sambal

Combine all ingredients and process in a food processor/blender or you can grind them with mortar and pestle.

Serving

Place lettuce, slices of lontong and boiled potatoes, blanched vegetables, wedges of boiled egg, slices of fried tempe and tofu, and wedges of tomato, slices of cucumber. Pour the warm sauce over, garnish with fried shallot, crushed shrimp crackers and emping nuts crackers. Put sambal on the side as people has different tastebuds to handle the spiciness. You can omit the sambal if you don’t like the spicy sauce.

Tips

- If the sauce to thick, add a small amount of water.

- Always try the sauce before remove from the heat, so you can add salt or coconut sugar to match your tastebuds.

- Serve gado-gado sauce while it is still warm. Warm up the sauce if it is cold.

- If you still have leftover sauce, keep it in a jar and refrigerate/freeze. You may use for other dipping purposes.

Glossary:

Emping Melinjo: Melinjo or padi oats crackers

Lontong: Rice cake with log shape

Kerupuk/krupuk Udang: shrimp crackers

Tempe/Tempeh: Indonesian fermented soy bean cake

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