Gado-gado Indonesian food from Java

Gado-Gado Indonesian food from Java

Gado-Gado is one of the Indonesian specialties originating from Java in the form of vegetables that are boiled and mixed together, with peanut sauce or sauce from mashed peanuts accompanied by sliced ​​eggs and topped with fried onions. little fried chips or crackers (some are using shrimp crackers) are also added.

Gado-Gado can be eaten just like a salad with spices / peanut sauce, but can also be eaten along with white rice or sometimes also served with rice cake.

Gado-Gado is an Indonesian version of the salad. According to Wikipedia, Gado-Gado is one of the Javanese foods in the form of vegetables that are boiled and mixed together, with peanut sauce or sauce from peanuts and mashed together with sliced ​​eggs and in general many add mashed mashed potatoes for sauce Gado Gado boiled potatoes cooked together with peanut sauce then topped with fried onions. Little fried chips or crackers (some are using shrimp crackers) are also added.

Benefits of Gado-Gado

Gado-Gado is a popular vegetable food in Indonesia. If you are interested in a diet and avoid animal foods and fried foods, eating Gado-Gado is one solution. Judging from the various main ingredients (various vegetables) Gado-Gado contains vitamins A, C, D, and E, and iron which is useful for the body. Carotenoids (precursors of vitamin A) as well as vitamins C and E are natural antioxidants that are very useful to fight attacks by free radicals, causes of premature aging, and various cancers.

Gado-Gado also contains many minerals found in vegetables, besides iron - also zinc, manganese, calcium, and phosphorus.

Although Gado-Gado is the food of the Indonesian people, how is the history of Gado-Gado unknown? From areas where Gado-Gado originated is still rather difficult to trace. If on Wikipedia it is said that Gado-Gado comes from Java, then others say Gado-Gado comes from Betawi. Perhaps the popularity of Gado-Gado originating from Betawi originated from RRI Studio Jakarta, which in the past had a very popular chat program between a handyman Sado (Bang Madi) and handyman Gado-Gado (Mpok Ani). From this event, it could be a Gado-Gado claimed by Betawi.

However, the name Gado-Gado itself seems to be mixed up in a mess. And the raw material for Gado-Gado itself is a mixture of various kinds of vegetables.

Gado-Gado ingredients:

- 1/4 board of fried tempeh

- 1/4 fried Chinese tofu

- 75 gr cabbage, roughly sliced

- 1 small piece of boiled potatoes

- 1 carrot, cut into pieces

- 50 gr beans, boiled, cut into pieces

- 1 chicken egg, boiled, split in two

- 1 curly lettuce leaf

- sufficient fried shrimp crackers

- enough cracker chips

Gado-Gado Nut Seasoning:

- 150 gr of peanuts

- 3 pecan cloves

- 5 red cayenne fruit

- 2sdm brown sugar

- 3 cloves of garlic

- 300ml medium coconut milk

- salt to taste

- the right amount of oil

How to make Gado-Gado:

1. Peanut sauce.

- Fry the peanuts until they are cooked, lift and tidy.

- Blend the peanuts with peanut sauce, then add the coconut milk, stir until smooth.

- Cook the peanut spices over medium heat, stirring occasionally so the coconut milk doesn't break, cook the peanut sauce until thickened.

Arrange on a plate a few lettuce leaves, carrot slices, beans and potatoes, sliced ​​cabbage, pieces of tempeh, tofu and boiled eggs. Then flush with peanut sauce.

Serve for 2 servings.

Good luck...