Gado-Gado with Compressed Rice

Gado-gado is an Indonesian cooked vegetable salad with peanut sauce, usually eaten as a one-dish lunch and almost always accompanied by compressed rice, which we call lontong. Both dishes are served at room temperature. However, there is no reason why they shouldn’t be heated, particularly if you have a microwave oven. Arrange the gado-gado on a serving platter or individual plates, dress it with the peanut sauce, put the cut-up rice round the edge, a