Recipe of Homemade Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado)

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado) using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

#mycookbook In Indonesian language, gado-gado literally means mix-mix. It has many kind of different ingredients. The peanut sauce is the essential dressing that make it a gado-gado. It brings together the different taste and texture of the ingredients. No gado-gado without the peanut sauce. #pib_gadogado Get the recipe for Lontong here 👉 #pib_lontong

Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado):

1. Vegetables (ex:carrot,lettuce,bean sprout,tomato,cucumber etc)
2. Boiled potato
3. Rice cake (lontong)
4. Hard boiled egg
5. Fried tofu
6. Fried tempeh
7. Tapioca crackers (krupuk)
8. Peanut Sauce Dressing
9. 6 garlic cloves
10. 1 tbs chili powder or paprika powder
11. 1-2 tsp tamarind paste or to taste
12. 100 gr coconut sugar
13. 2 tsp salt
14. 2 tbs sugar
15. to taste Ground white pepper
16. 150 gr natural peanut butter (no salt/sugar added)
17. 500 ml coconut milk
18. 100 ml water
19. Note :
20. If you don't have peanut butter, use 200 gr ground fried peanut
21. If you don't have coconut sugar, use granulated sugar

Instructions to make to make Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado)

1. Cut/slice the vegetables as you like. Set aside.
2. Cut the remaining ingredients (potato, rice cake, egg, tofu, tempe) as you like.
3. How to make Peanut Sauce Dressing : fry the garlic clove until golden brown.
4. Put fried garlic, chili powder, peanut butter, coconut milk and water in the blender. Blend all together until smooth.
5. Pour it into a sauce pan. Cook over medium heat.
6. Add coconut sugar, salt and sugar.
7. Stir until it bubbles. Add tamarind paste.
8. Keep stirring it until it boils hard and looks oily. If it hasn't looked oily, keep stirring it and lower the heat down. Make sure to taste it and add sugar/salt/tamarind if needed.
9. When the peanut sauce is ready, cool it down.
10. How to serve : Put veggies and everything else, except the crackers, onto a serving plate. Drizzle the peanut sauce as much as you like 😊. Put the crackers on top. Enjoy. (The best way to eat it is to mix everything all together).

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