GADO-GADO

GADO-GADO


My husband doesnt like eat vegetable so much except gado-gado. I asked my step mother for the recipe and i tried at home, trust me, its delicious. Who dont know that peanut butter with milk coconut is the best matched? The peanut sauce will be so creamy.

I post it for CS-ers especially for randall aries who requested indonesian food. There is an Indonesian peanut sauce, which is served over a kind of vegetable salad, called gado gado. Dont worry for all vegetarian people, u still can eat it. You can use chopped peanuts or peanut butter. You can make it thin with water or thick and creamy with coconut milk. I even know some peanut butter-haters who love peanut sauce, that's how good it is.




Ingridients:

Peanut Sauce:

• 200 gr peanut butter (for the great taste (but it takes a long time, fry the peanut in the wok without oil with small fire, dont forget to stir always or u will get it burned). But for the simple one, u can use peanut butter but no sugar added kind)
• 75 ml thick coconut milk
• 3 pc red chilli (if u dont like hot so much, u can leave away the seeds )
• 3-4 cloves garlic
• 2 salam leaves(this is indonesian herb, if this is difficult for u to find, u can leave it)
• 4 pc lemon grass
• 1 sereh
• 5 tbs brown sugar / granulated sugar (its depend your taste, u can use more if you like sweet)
• 100 ml water
• salt (its up to you)
• ready-to-use fried shallots (garnish)

Vegetables (if u cant find any of these, u can change it with your favourite veggie):

• Boiled Carrots, sliced into finger lengths, steam or boil
• Boiled Potatoes, sliced into finger lengths, and boil
• Beans prouts, blanch for 10 seconds
• Boiled Long beans, sliced 5cm lengths and boil
• Cucumbers, sliced into finger lengths
• Boiled eggs
• Fried Tofu
• Fried Soy bean cake (tempeh)

Methods:
Peanut sauce:

1. Blend the chillies, garlic, shallots with the water in a food processor or blender until smooth
2. Heat the oil and saute the blended ingridients until fragrant
3. Add the water, peanuts, sugar, salt, and bring to the boil
4. Cook sauce until boiled, the volume reduced and the sauce surface looks a bit oily. Keep stirring until bubbling about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat.

Serving:

• Place all vegetables on the plate, pour the warm sauce over, garnish with fried shallots