Mom's Gado-gado Padang (Cooked Mixed Veges w/ Peanut sauce) 🇮🇩. Fun fact - Gado Gado means "Mix mix", which is exactly what this dish is about! The key is in the making of the peanut sauce - combining dried chilli, shallots, lemongrass, balacan, coconut milk and a lot more, it's not surprising that the taste is flavorful and fragrant. Gado-gado is my favorite Indonesian salad.

It's a traditional dish in Indonesia; but, also very popular in Malaysia. A popular street dish in Indonesia, gado gado ("mix-mix") is just the thing to shake up your weeknight routine. Hard-cooked eggs, toasted tofu, bean sprouts, and vegetables come together with drizzles of spicy, habit-forming peanut sauce. You can cook Mom's Gado-gado Padang (Cooked Mixed Veges w/ Peanut sauce) 🇮🇩 using 42 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Mom's Gado-gado Padang (Cooked Mixed Veges w/ Peanut sauce) 🇮🇩

It's 4 of med potatoes peeled,slice thickly,put in a doubl pot steam 20'.
Prepare of Cabbage slice largely,cook in a saucepan with 2 tbs water for 5'.
Prepare of French beans precook first: to steam on a double pots for 16' or.
It's of Spinach or Kangkung blanched in saucepan with 2 tbs water for 5'.
It's 2 of Bean Curds: cut in 1/2 then slice thickly,.
You need of then fry in the wok filled with a hot oil, fry until golden.
You need 100 g of Bean sprouts, pouring hot water to soften.
You need 2 of carrots cut thin shape1×2.5cm,boil in saucepan little water 5'.
Prepare 1 of big onion chopped finely, fried until half brown in a hot oil,.
It's of Divided in half and half; other half onions.
You need of are for decoration &these has to continue to fry till dark brown.
You need 1/2 of Cucumber sliced.
It's 4 of Small bunches of soft Lettuce (optional).
Prepare 4 of eggs boiled for 6 min, peeled, cut into segments.1 egg/person.
It's 4 cups of Warm water from the kettle as needed.
It's 1-2 Tbs of soft brown sugar.
Prepare of Kerupuk emping or Kerupuk merah/red: cracker chips to put on top.
You need of or Cassava chips (from cassava root) sold in supermarket.
It's of KETUPAT cakes (press cooked rice) or LONTONG rice.
It's of Banana large leaf as base bed place on top of the plate.
Prepare of How to make PEANUT sauce:.
You need 500 gr of raw peeled Peanuts.
It's of Rice Bran Oil ('Alfa one' brand, good for food).
Prepare of In a wok put 1 inch oil, heat the oil,then add the peanuts, keep.
It's of stirring & fry till change slightly the peanut's colour(beidge),.
You need of then quickly remove the wok,drain the oil. Let cool the peanuts.
You need of Other ingredients for the Peanut Sauce:.
Prepare 3/4 cup of can Coconut Cream (optional).
You need 300 mls of or more water from the kettle.
It's 2 of Bay leaves (Daun salam).
Prepare 3 of lemons/kaffir lime leaves, teared at sides of the leaves.
You need 2 Tbs of Sweet Soy sauce (Kecap manis).
Prepare 4 tbs of Java coconut sugar(dark brown sugar, toffee flav) or.
It's 2 tbs of soft brown sugar.
Prepare 1 tsp of Salt or more.
Prepare 2 tbs of tamarind paste or 2 tbs white wine vinegar.
It's 3 of lemon/lime leaves, teared at sides leaves.
You need of Spicy paste for the Peanut sauce:.
Prepare 3 of garlic cloves.
You need 10 of fresh red chillies.
Prepare 2 cm of square slice terasi,fry dried on saucepan for 7" each side.
Prepare of (or 1 tsp dried shrimp paste/mackerel fish paste).

If you use peanut butter instead of ground roasted peanuts, add less salt because there's salt in the peanut butter. Gado gado is absolutely one of my favorite Indonesian salad. The salad is usually built on mainly cooked vegetables, though sometimes Sometimes lontong pieces are used in gado gado too. The gado gado is then served with delicious and creamy gado gado sauce and toppings like prawn.

Mom's Gado-gado Padang (Cooked Mixed Veges w/ Peanut sauce) 🇮🇩 instructions

Prepare the spicy paste: In a food processor put garlic, fresh chillies and the warm dried terasi..
In a food processor put the cooled fried peanuts. Grind them until become a crunchy butter texture..
In a wok on stove on medium heat put the water q.b., put the warm water, add the half fried cooked onions, spicy paste, peanut crunchy butter, bay leaves, lemon leaves, salt, jawa coconut sugar, soft brown sugar, sweet soy sauce or and coconut cream, tamarind paste or white wine vinegar: stirring all together & slowly bring to boil then lower down the heat, keep stirring. Put extra water if necessary to not having a concentrated gravy sauce. Taste the season, vinegar & the sugar..
Cook gently for 2 minutes more. Turn off the heat. Pour the hot peanut sauce in a big serving jar. (When ready to serve on individual dish: pour the peanut sauce abundantly all over on the top of the veges)..
To serve for 4 peoples: put the softened banana leaf on individual plate. Divide all the vegetables display nicely on each plate: arrange cooked potatoes over the banana as bed, then on top put the cabbage then French beans or a little of spinach, bean curd slices, cucumber, bean sprouts or carrots.Insert the lettuce on the side.On top of veges put a few of the Kerupuk on one side, sprinkle the dark brown dried fried onion on top centre, put the boiled eggs segments on top other side of the dish.
Finally the gado-gado dish is completed arranged. Lastly pour abundantly the peanut sauce all over top. To those lover of extra hot: a put on the table a jar of Sambal Oelek..

This Indonesian salad is true to its name, gado-gado , meaning "potpourri." Assorted vegetables, tofu, eggs, and shrimp chips are dressed in peanut sauce. The salad lends itself to creativity; nearly any combination of raw and cooked vegetables, along with rice or thin noodles, if you like, can be used. At its base, gado gado is a mixed salad of cooked and raw vegetables, topped or tossed with a peanut sauce. Repeat this process, one ingredient at a time, with the carrots, green beans and potatoes, letting each ingredient boil long enough to cook through but still retain a pleasant bite. This well-loved assemblage of lightly cooked and raw vegetables translates literally as "mix-mix." A colorful combination of wholesome ingredients is arranged.