According to wikipedia Gado-gado (in Indonesian or Betawi language), also known as Lotek (in Sundanese and Javanese) is an Indonesian dish or Indonesian salad consisting of boiled vegetables served with a peanut sauce dressing.
I made this recipe for the first time today, though had tried it a number of times before. This peanut sauce has quite variations, but the one used here has a very spicy, sweet and sour taste. Some people simply have this peanut sauce with boiled rice. Its one of my family’s favourite.
Ingredients
Peanut Sauce
Peanuts 375 grams
Tamaraind 125 grams
Onions 2 sliced
Green Chillies 6
Palm sugar 250 grams
Salt 1.5 tsp
Vegetables
Potatoes 3
Eggs 6
Cucmber 4
Carrots 4
Spinach 1 bunch
Cabbage 1/2
Optional ingredients
peas
bean sprouts
french beans
lettuce
tofu
prawn crackers
Method
Boil potatoes and eggs separately
Once boiled, peel the potatoes skin, cut them into chunks or slices and deep fry, for the eggs cut them into halves or quarters and set aside
Boil water in a pot, then blanche individually spinach, cabbage and carrots. Set aside
Cut cucumber into cubes and set aside.
For the peanut sauce
Separately fry onions and peanuts then strain them.
Next put onions, peanuts, palm sugar, salt, tamarind (soaked in water and pulp extracted), green chillies and water in a grinder and form into a paste.
Serve them as showed.
