GADO GADO
This is an Indonesian salad of highly blanched vegetables with wedges of potatoes and hard-boiled eggs. It is served with tantalising peanut sauce which is laced with pepper. This could be a light meal for lunch or tea. Serves 4
Ingredients
100gm green beans
100gm kangkong
50gm bean sprouts
60gm white cabbage, sliced
2 pieces bean curd, fried and sliced
100gm potatoes, boiled and cut into wedges
2 hard-boiled eggs, cut into wedges
6 spikes pickled pepper
Method
1. Blanch vegetables lightly.
2.Drain and arrange on a platter with bean curd slices and wedges of potatoes and eggs.
3. Garnish with spikes of pepper.
4. Serve with gado gado sauce.
GADO GADO SAUCE
Ingredients
200gm peanuts, roasted
50gm tamarind paste
4 teaspoons cooking oil
1 teaspoon pepper oil
3 shallots, chopped
1 clove garlic, chopped
2 stalks lemon grass, crushed
15gm lengkuas, pounded
50gm chilli paste
10gm belacan
2 teaspoons green peppercorns
50gm sugar
Method
1. Grind roasted peanuts finely.
2. Soak tamarind paste in warm water and strain the juice.
3. Heat the oil in a pan and saute the chopped shallots and garlic gently.
4. Add the lemon grass, lengkuas, chilli paste, belacan and green peppercorns and fry until fragrant.
5. Then, add the tamarind juice, sugar and finally the peanuts.
