Name: Gado Gado
Yield: A Healthy Lunch for 6
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 3 tomatoes, quartered; 200 g/7 oz/1⅔ cups beansprouts, rinsed; 3 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and quartered; ¼ white cabbage, finely shredded; around 10 cm/4 in.piece cucumber, sliced; 2 sticks of lemongrass, finely chopped; 250 g/9 oz/1 cup crunchy peanut butter; juice and grated zest of 1 lime; 200 ml/7 fl oz. generous ¾ cup coconut milk; 1–2 bird’s eye chillies, finely chopped; 3 garlic cloves, minced; 2 cm/¾ in.knob fresh ginger, minced; 250 g/9 oz.firm tofu, cut into 2 cm/¾ in.cubes; salt; 350 g/12 oz.firm potatoes, peeled and cut into thick slices; 60–75 g/2½–2¾oz prawn (shrimp) crackers, optional, but authentic; big handful of fresh coriander (cilantro), chopped; 200 g/7 oz green beans, cut into short lengths; 2 medium carrots, cut into matchsticks; 1 medium onion, finely diced; 60–75 g/2½–2¾ oz. scant ½–½ cup shelled roasted peanuts, lightly chopped; ¼ tsp ground turmeric; little sesame oil, for frying

Preparation info

A Healthy Lunch for
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Salmagundi

By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

About

This salad is so popular in our household that when a certain small person started calling it ‘Good-oh Good-oh salad’ no one corrected him. Well, it has got peanut butter in it, and peanut butter makes everything right, yes?

Gado Gado just means ‘mixed’ in Indonesian, and this is indeed a sort of Asian salmagundi. The vegetable and carb contents can be varied according to season/availability, but the sauce is practically incommutable. Don’t be put off by the number of ingredients: i