Gado Gado sauce made with ground peanuts.
Nutritious Indonesian salad.
Equipment
- 1 power blender or a food processor
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup = 75 grams ground peanuts
- 1 red chili pepper = lombok optional
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tbsp tamarind pulp = asam soaked in water
- 1 tbsp coconut sugar or brown sugar
- 1 tbsp lime juice
- 1 1/2 tbsp kecap mania
- 1/3 cup hot water or as needed
Instructions
- Chop the chili and garlic, then add to the ground peanuts and roast for a minute.
- Add the hot water and blend it in the food processor or blender. It is ok to be chunky. Dish this peanut blend in a small sauce pan.
- Add all the other ingredients, sugar, lime juice and kecap. When you add the tamarind, make sure there is no pit in it.
- Add the necessary water and stir until all ingredients are well mixed and cooked. Maybe for 2 minutes. The sauce should be not too think and not too watery. When you stir it should feel like mustard or yoghurt thickness.
- If you haven't done it before, steam the green beans, or cabbage and cook the potatoes. Cut a cucumber and for the bean sprouts, place it in a colander and soften it with pouring hot water over it. Make sure it is weel strained and place it on a serving dish next to all other vegetables. Add leafy greens is if you have it available. You can fry the krupuk the day before or in the morning.On a plate, arrange all the salad ingredients an pour the Gado Gado sauce over it. Now, eat up?
Notes
Follow the recipes on fried tempeh and fried tofu. You can use any krupuk you want, shrimp, emping or garlic krupuk. You can eat this salad cold or eat is right when it is served.
To make this a dinner salad, add the tofu and tempeh on top of the vegetables, with the sprouts and the potatoes, eggs optional. Then pour the sauce over the salad. Selamat makan!