Mixed Vegetable Salad With Peanut Sauce Gado Gado Recipes

Steps:

• Cook the potatoes in boiling salted water for 20 to 25 minutes, until fork-tender. Peel and cut into 2-inch (5-cm) cubes.
• Prepare a bowl or tub of ice water. Blanch the cabbage for 1 to 2 minutes, until translucent and wilted, and transfer to the ice bath. When cool, drain on kitchen towels. Set aside. Repeat with the spinach (30 seconds to 1 minute), bean sprouts (30 seconds to 1 minute) and green beans (3 to 4 minutes).
• Arrange the vegetables, eggs and tofu or tempeh on a large platter. Serve with a bowl of Indonesian Peanut Sauce, with the vegetable chips and fried shallots on small plates alongside. Each diner should pick and choose an assortment of ingredients to put on their plate. Drizzle 2 to 3 tablespoons of peanut sauce over the vegetables and top with vegetable chips and fried shallots. Stir everything together and enjoy!

Steps:

• (a variety of the following): cabbage, in 1-inch squares; bean sprouts; carrots, sliced or julienned; green beans, in 2-inch pieces; potatoes or sweet potatoes in large dice; sliced cucumbers; watercress sprigs; tomato wedges.
• This is from a new cookbook I just got.
• Haven't tried this recipe yet, but it looks dead on.
• This is a rather free-form salad of lightly cooked vegetables; the exact contents depend on what is available.
• What makes it gado-gado is the dressing, a creamy peanut sauce.
• Remove tofu from package and drain.
• Place on a plate lined with cloth or paper towels, top with another layer of towel and an inverted plate, and place a weight of a pound or more on top.
• Let stand for 30 minutes, unwrap, and discard liquid.
• Cut tofu into bite-sized squares or triangles and sprinkle with kecap manis.
• Fry in 350F oil until golden brown and puffy; transfer to paper towels to drain.
• Reserve oil to cook peanuts.
• One at a time, blanch vegetables in lightly salted water, rinsing them in cold water to stop cooking as soon as they reach the desired degree of doneness.
• Cabbage and bean sprouts require only a few seconds; carrots, green beans, and potatoes may take several minutes depending on size and tenderness.
• Do not blanch cucumbers, watercress, and tomatoes.
• use them raw.
• Place Gado-Gado Sauce in a small bowl in the center of a large platter.
• Arrange vegetables on platter around sauce.
• Garnish with wedges or slices of hard-cooked egg and fried onion flakes.
• To serve, spoon some sauce onto each plate and dip vegetables into sauce.
• Serves 4 to 6 with other dishes.
• --------------GADO-GADOSAUCE----------------.
• To prepare sauce in a mortar: Pound garlic, shallot, galangal, shrimp paste, and chile to a paste.
• To prepare sauce in a blender: Chop together in a 1-cup jar.
• In a wok or deep skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat until a peanut sizzles on contact.
• Fry peanuts until lightly browned; transfer to paper towels to drain.
• When peanuts have cooled, grind in a mortar or food processor to a coarse, grainy paste, adding a little oil if necessary to facilitate blending.
• (May be made up to a week ahead and stored covered in refrigerator.) Remove all but 2 tablespoons oil from pan and reserve for another use.
• Return pan to medium-low heat and add pounded mixture.
• Cook until quite fragrant, but do not burn.
• Add peanuts, sugar, and coconut milk and bring to a boil, stirring.
• Simmer until thick and season to taste with salt and lime juice.
• Allow to coot to room temperature before serving.

Steps:

• Bring a pot of salted water to a boil and blanch, separately, cabbage, green beans, carrots, cauliflower and broccoli. Drain separately as well. Heat peanut sauce in a small saucepan, adding water if it is too thick, adjust seasoning. Arrange arugula leaves, potato, cucumbers evenly on a platter. Arrange blanched vegetables on top. Top with hard boiled eggs and radish sprouts. Pour hot peanut sauce over top. Garnish with crispy shallots. Serve with rice crackers.

Steps:

• Bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil. Meanwhile, stir the peanut butter, hoisin, lime juice, sugar and red-pepper flakes in a large bowl. Add 2 tablespoons boiling water from the saucepan to the peanut dressing and stir well. The dressing should be runny but still thick. If needed, stir in another tablespoon boiling water.
• Add the green beans to the boiling water and cook until brighter in color and just tender, 2 to 3 minutes. Drain well, rinse under cold water until cool, then drain again. Transfer the green beans and tofu to the peanut dressing and stir gently until evenly coated. Season to taste with salt, then sprinkle with more red-pepper flakes. Serve immediately or refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 2 days.

Steps:

• Put the coconut in a blender.
• Add 1 cup of hot{not boiling} water.
• Cover and blend on high speed for about 1/2 a minute.
• Heat the oil in a 2 quart-sized saucepan.
• Toss in the onion and garlic.
• Stir-fry for 5 minutes.
• Stir in the remaining ingredients for the dressing and the blended coconut-water mixture.
• Bring to a boil, stirring continuosuly as you do so.
• Lower flame and allow the sauce to simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until it thickens.
• This takes about 3 minutes.
• Now, start preparing the salad.
• In a bowl, put the cabbage and bean sprouts.
• Add enough boiling water over these veggies to cover'em.
• Let this stand for 2 minutes.
• Drain completely.
• In a pan, fry the bean curd in oil, over medium flame, turning the pieces over gently, until it is light brown in colour.
• Remove and drain on clean kitchen paper towels.
• Toss in the potatoes into the same skillet.
• Stir and cook until they turn light brownish in colour.
• On a beautiful silver platter, arrange the bean sprouts, cabbage and other veggies nicely.
• Pour the warm dressing over the salad or serve it separately as a dip- your choice!
• Enjoy!