Name: Mixed vegetable salad with peanut sauce (Gado-Gado)
Yield: to serve six
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: ⅓ tsp brown sugar; 2 shallots; 120 g (4 oz) beansprouts; 1 clove garlic; 90 g (3 oz) carrots; 90 g (3 oz) cauliflower; 1 hard-boiled egg; 1 slice terasi; 120 g (4 oz) peanuts; vegetable oil; juice of half a lemon; 1 medium-sized potato; krupuk (prawn crackers); 90 g (3 oz) French beans; fried onions; 30 g (1 oz) creamed coconut (optional); 90 g (3 oz) cabbage; ½ tsp chilli powder; a quarter of a cucumber; salt; 2 cups water

Preparation info

to serve
six

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

This is a very popular vegetable dish, not expensive, and very good for you. In my student days, my usual lunch was a plate of Gado-Gado, and it makes an excellent lunch just by itself. It can also accompany a full meal, with meat and rice; or you can follow the Indonesian custom of eating it either before or after the main course.

To take the vegetables first, you might select the following.