Mixed vegetable salad with peanut sauce

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.