Gado-gado Salad

Gado-gado Salad is an Indonesian dish of slightly boiled vegetables served with peanut sauce dressing. Gado-gado in Indonesian literary means "mix-mix" since it is made of rich mixture of vegetables such as potatoes, string beans, bean sprouts, spinach, chayote, bitter gourd, corn and cabbage, with tofu, tempeh and hard-boiled eggs, all mixed in peanut sauce dressing, sometimes also topped with krupuk (if you are vegetarian, there are plenty of onion crackers available in the market), and sprinkles of fried shallots. That's what Wikipedia says, and I agree with it :)

For the peanut sauce (enough for a large serving of salad), I use these following ingredients:
100 gr ground roasted peanut
1/2 tbs palm sugar
1 tbs chili paste 
1 tbs dark soy sauce
2 kaffir lime leaves
1/2 tbs tamarind juice
a pich of salt
about 70 to 100 ml water (depending on the preferred thickness of the sauce)

Mix all the ingredients together in a food processor. Served with the boiled/steamed vegetable of your choice, and any meat substitute such as boiled eggs, fried tempeh and tofu. 

I sometimes add boiled eggs, and some other times I add Lontong or compressed rice cake to my Gado-gado. Few slices of cucumber will give an extra crunchiness to this salad. Enjoy!