About the dish
Gado-gado, roughly ‘a mix’, is an Indonesian salad especially associated with Jakarta and Betawi cooking. It brings together briefly cooked or raw vegetables – green beans, cabbage, bean sprouts, water spinach – with potatoes, boiled egg, fried tofu and tempeh, and often pieces of lontong rice cake. Everything is generously dressed with a sweet and spicy sauce of roasted peanuts, chilli, palm sugar and tamarind, then topped with fried shallots and emping or krupuk crackers. Vendors grind the sauce for each customer in a stone mortar, adjusting the heat to order. It is a filling yet fresh lunch dish.
Main ingredients
- green beans
- cabbage
- bean sprouts
- potatoes
- tofu
- tempeh
- egg
- peanuts
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