Gado Gado

Name: Gado Gado (Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing)
Yield: Makes 4 to 6 Servings
Ingredients: 30 g or 1 ounce garlic, peeled; ¾ cup oil; 1½ teaspoons belachan; Prawn crackers (keropok); 55 g or 2 ounces tamarind (assam), soaked in 2 cups hot water; 4 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and quartered; 1 cucumber, seeds removed and cut into bite-size pieces; 2 pieces fermented soy bean cakes (tempeh) (optional); 3 pieces firm soy bean curd (taukua); 150 g or 5½ ounces bean sprouts, heads and tails plucked; 300 g or 11 ounces compressed rice cakes (lontong), diced into 2.5 cm or 1 inch cubes (optional) *; 40 g or 1½ ounce brown sugar; ¼ cup coconut milk; 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar; 10 g or 1 ounce salt; 340 g or 12 ounces ground peanut; 150 g or 5½ ounces long beans, trimmed and cut into 5 cm or 2 inch pieces; ½ head lettuce, leaves cut into 2.5 cm or 1 inch squares; ½ head cabbage, leaves cut into 2.5 cm or 1 inch squares; 500 g or 1 pound 2 ounces red bliss potatoes; 70 g or 2½ ounces shallots, peeled and diced; 60 g or 2 ounces white sugar; 45 g or 1½ ounce dried chillies, soaked hot water for ½ hour; 30 g or 1 ounce gula melaka

Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing

Preparation info

Makes
4 to 6
Servings

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Growing Up In A Nonya Kitchen

By Sharon Wee

Published 2012

About

A few years ago, my father and I went to an Indonesian restaurant and ordered gado gado. He told me that my mother’s gado gado was rather similar to the Indonesian version, as it included cucumbers and fresh lettuce. Our family also prefers to have ikan tamban crackers or prawn crackers with our gado gado.

Ingredients

Peanut Sauce

45 g or 1½ ounce dried chillies, soaked hot water for ½ hour
55 g or

Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Peanut Sauce

Drain soaked chillies and set aside. Strain the tamarind juice and discard the seeds and fibre.
Combine the shallots, garlic, red chillies and belachan and pound or grind to a fine paste. Heat a wok with some oil over low heat and fry the spice paste until fragrant.
Add 1½ cups of the tamarind juice,