Friday, 16 December 2011

Gado Gado


Ingredients for 4-5 person:

1 package of firm tofu
2 potatoes
50 g long beans
50 g cabbage
1 onion (big size)

5 cloves of garlic
1 big cucumber
2 eggs
200 g peanuts 
150 g coconut milk
2 cm ginger
2 cm blue ginger
10 peaces lime leaves
2 sticks of lemon grass 
kencur (white ginger) 3 cm




Cooking method:
  1. Fry firm tofu for 3 minutes on both sides. 
  2. Boil eggs, potatoes, cabbage and beans.
  3. Cut in slices all the above mentioned ingredients and put on the serving dish together with cut fresh cucumbers (as on the photo above).
  4. This dish can be served together with peanut sauce.

For sauce: 
  1. Blend onion, garlic, ken cur (white ginger), blue ginger and ginger.
  2. Fry it until aromatic. Add some water (approx. 300 ml of water) and cook for 15 minutes on a low flame. 
  3. Blend peanuts, lime leave, lemon grass and coconut milk. Combine together with previous ingredients.
  4. Cook another 10 minutes. Sauce is ready to serve.






  • Alternatively a rice cake can be added to main ingredients.
  • In case blue and white ginger can be bought, only ginger can be used . More lime leaves should be blended for the sauce (around 15 leaves).

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