How to Prepare Yummy Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce)

Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce). Gado-gado is my favorite Indonesian salad. 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.

Typically, gado-gado (which translates to mix-mix) is a hearty Indonesian salad with cooked and fresh vegetables (customized based on what's available Gado-gado peanut sauce uses ground peanuts, palm sugar, garlic, chilies, tamarind, lime juice, and salt. To save time, we're using peanut butter. Fun fact - Gado Gado means "Mix mix", which is exactly what this dish is about! You can cook Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce) using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce)

1. It's Half of bunch of kangkung (you can replace with spinach or).
2. Prepare of sprouts.
3. Prepare of Cabbage.
4. You need of Cucumber.
5. You need 2 blocks of tofu.
6. You need of Lime juice.
7. It's 50 g of palm sugar.
8. Prepare 100 g of peanuts.
9. You need 3 of chillies.
10. Prepare 1 teaspoon of salt.
11. Prepare of Egg(s).
12. You need of Water.

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. It takes a bit of time to come up with. Students can score a free Whopper from Burger King if they pass this test. Joy Bauer's healthier desserts: fudge bites and cookies.

Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce) step by step

1. Fry the peanuts untill it gets brownish.
2. While frying your peanuts. Boil all your vegetables along with the egg(s). Watch it out, don't let it overcooked :D.
3. After you're done with the peanuts. Fry your tofu..
4. Then. The peanut sauce... You can actually grind it for tastier taste. But I was kinda lazy that I chose to blend it using blender hehe. So put together the fried peanuts, palm sugar, chillies, pinch of salt and water. And blend it untill it is mixed. For the texture, keep it not too thick nor watery. So my advice is to pour the water little by little..
5. Last thing is to put them together in one plate. Mix the peanut sauce with the boiled veggies and add little more taste with the lime juice..

I used my food processor to make the sauce which was very easy and turned out great. For those of you who are not familiar with some of the ingredients used in the sauce, I'm posting some photos of the key ingredients below. My ideal VDS goes by an Indonesian name: gado gado. Use a stick blender or food processor to briefly process the remaining sauce ingredients For more healthy recipes and expert diet advice go to www.healthyfood.com © Healthy Life media Limited. Indonesian gado gado salad is a healthy medley of lightly cooked vegetables topped with boiled eggs and a delicious peanut satay sauce.