Gado-Gado (Cooked Mixed Vegetables with Peanut Sauce)

Gado-gado is a classic Indonesian salad. Gado-gado is known as a food from Jakarta especially Betawi ethnic group. Gado-gado is one of favorite lunch menu for Indonesian people. People usually buy it rather then they make it by their selves. It can be found on the street fender. Due to that, it is typically called as street food. However, do not worry about the taste. It is delightful. It charges approximately Rp.8,000-Rp. 15,000. The words gado-gado it self come from the basic word that is “gado”. It has a meaning that everything that is mixed. In this case, gado-gado is a food that mixes several vegetables as the ingredients of the food. Moreover, basically gado-gado contains by mixed boiled vegetables such as spinach or kangkung (optional), boiled cabbage, boiled potatoes, bean sprout, added by boiled salted egg, fried tofu or fried tempe and sprinkled by fried onion and emping (fried chips made of Gnetum gnemon fruit).Gado-gado is known that it has two variants condiments or peanut sauces. The first and most preferred is the spice of crushed individually. This sauce preferred because it is considered fresher, and more exclusive. For instance, there are people who want to add more chilies, or without kencur (greater galingale), or want to add lime leaves are crushed and flattened into seasoning to give a distinctive aroma and flavor. The second variant is the spices that has been prepared in large quantities and stay poured onto a mixture of vegetable and accessories. Moreover, here there is the recipe of gado-gado.

The sauce:                                              

1 teaspoon salt

1 oz fried peanuts

¼ oz Red chili

½ oz Brown sugar

Water at sufficiently

1 Salam leave

The vegetables:

1 bowl boiled kangkung

1 bowl boiled cabbage

1 bowl boiled bean sprouts

I tomato, sliced it

½ bowl boiled peeled and sliced potatoes

The garnish:

4 fried sliced tofu

2 fried sliced tempe (cakes of compressed, lightly fermented soya beans) (optional)

10 slices of rice cake (optional)

2 hard-boiled salted egg, quartered

1 cucumber, thinly sliced

1 spoon of fried shallots

4 large crackers or 4 handful of fried emping, broken up into small pieces (optional)

Soya sauce at sufficiently

The directions:

Grind all the ingredients for making sauce except salam leave, add water sufficiently so that it looks like a thick liquid.

Put all the vegetables and the garnish except fried shallots on the plate orderly.

Pour the peanut sauce onto the plate that has vegetables and garnish.

Add soya sauce and fried shallots on the top.

The gado-gado is ready to be served

Served for 4 portions