Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado)

Name: Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing (Gado-gado)
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Vegetables (ex:carrot,lettuce,bean sprout,tomato,cucumber etc); Boiled potato; Rice cake (lontong); Hard boiled egg; Fried tofu; Fried tempeh; Tapioca crackers (krupuk); 6 garlic cloves; 1 tbs chili powder or paprika powder; 1-2 tsp tamarind paste or to taste; 100 gr coconut sugar; 2 tsp salt; 2 tbs sugar; to taste Ground white pepper; 150 gr natural peanut butter (no salt/sugar added); 500 ml coconut milk; 100 ml water; If you don't have peanut butter, use 200 gr ground fried peanut; If you don't have coconut sugar, use granulated sugar

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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.
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Get the recipe for Lontong here 👉 #pib_lontong

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Ingredients

Vegetables (ex:carrot,lettuce,bean sprout,tomato,cucumber etc)
Boiled potato
Rice cake (lontong)
Hard boiled egg
Fried tofu
Fried tempeh
Tapioca crackers (krupuk)
Peanut Sauce Dressing
6garlic cloves
1 tbschili powder or paprika powder
1-2 tsptamarind paste or to taste
100 grcoconut sugar
2 tspsalt
2 tbssugar
to tasteGround white pepper
150 grnatural peanut butter (no salt/sugar added)
500 mlcoconut milk
100 mlwater
Note :
If you don't have peanut butter, use 200 gr ground fried peanut
If you don't have coconut sugar, use granulated sugar

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Steps

1

Cut/slice the vegetables as you like. Set aside.
2

Cut the remaining ingredients (potato, rice cake, egg, tofu, tempe) as you like.
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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.
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Add coconut sugar, salt and sugar.
7

Stir until it bubbles. Add tamarind paste.
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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.
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When the peanut sauce is ready, cool it down.
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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).