Gado Gado Padang Recipe

Who would have thought that gado-gado was not always from Jakarta. Apparently, the Minang earth also has its own version of the hodgepodge. If you generally use rice cake, Gado-Gado Padang adds yellow noodles. The crackers/empings are also replaced with the typical pink/red crackers, which you usually find with Soto Padang or vegetable ketupat.

Ingredients

Yellow noodles, boiled and drained - 50 grams
Potatoes, boiled and sliced - 50 grams
Beans, cut into pieces then boiled and drained - 25 grams
Bean sprouts, boiled and drained - 25 grams
Lettuce, sliced - 4 pieces
Cabbage, boiled and sliced - 1 sheet
Cucumber, sliced - 1 piece
White tofu, fried until skinned and then sliced - 1 piece
Eggs, boiled and then divided into 2 - 1 eggs
Red crackers - to taste
Peanut sauce:
Peanuts, fried - 100 grams
Bay leaf - 2 pieces
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Brown sugar - 1 tbsp
Instant coconut milk - 30 ml
Sour water - 2 tbsp
Water - 200 ml
Oil, for frying - to taste
Ground spices:
Garlic - 3 cloves
Curly red chilies - 2 pieces
Citrus leaves, remove the bone leaves - 1 sheet
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Plans

Heat some oil. Saute ground spices until fragrant.
Puree the stir fry spices and all the peanut sauce ingredients using a blender.
Transfer the ground peanut sauce to a saucepan. Cook until bubbling and thickened. Turn off the fire.
Serving: Arrange noodles, potatoes, vegetables, tofu, and eggs on a serving plate. Drizzle with peanut sauce then add a complement of red crackers.
To keep the color beautiful, boil the vegetables (beans, bean sprouts, cabbage) briefly over high heat until the color turns light. Immediately remove the boiled vegetables and rinse with cold water to stop the cooking process.

What are the ingredients for making gado2?

Kale, long beans, bitter melon, bean sprouts, spinach, chayote, cucumber, and tofu and tempeh are a line of choices that you can serve in your vegetable gado-gado plate. Even so, you can also include other types of vegetables in a dish similar to this pecel.

Does gado gado use coconut milk?

In this method of making gado-gado, coconut milk, tamarind water, and brown sugar are used for the peanut sauce. This makes the taste of this gado-gado seasoning savory and slightly sweet.

What's the difference between pecel and gado gado?

Ning explained that the ingredients for lotek, pecel, and gado-gado pecel are basically the same. However, in the Gado-Gado itself, the peanut sauce is cooked first, while the pecel and lotek are not. "If the gado-gado is the same, the spices are the same, but it's cooked first, then the spices are cooked. Then it's watered too," he said.