Fun to say, delicious to eat

Umi Qamar’s Gado-Gado Salad

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4-6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Red Sea Cookbook: Over 100 family recipes and stories from Saudi Arabia

By Madeeha Qureshi

Published 2026

  • About

Food has the remarkable ability to transport you to different places, even if you can’t physically go there, and gado-gado is a perfect example of this, taking you to the streets of Jakarta, Indonesia. This is the most famous street food of Indonesia and, as I always say, street foods are the index to a nation’s soul.

Gado-gado means “mix mix”, which is justified; indeed it is a mix of as many vegetables as you like. Surprisingly, they all work together extraordinarily well, all mar