Gado Gado (Recipe promised Desiree)

Gado Gado (Indonesian salad with peanut sauce)

from The World Vegetarian Cookbook

Ingredients

2 tbsp peanut oil

2 carrots, cut into thin strips

2 potatoes, cut into thin strips

1 cup of green beans, trimmed

1 cup of Chinese leaves, shredded (I used cabbage, and I'm sure bok choy would work well, too)

1 cup bean sprouts

Half a cucumber, cut into (yes, for real) batons

Peanut sauce

Okay, I found this to be the hardest part of the dish, so I might recommend that you just buy the peanut sauce. Or if you're desperate to do this from scratch, look it up!

Garnish

Sliced or quartered hard-boiled eggs

Cucumber slices

1. Heat a wok or frying pan and add tbsps peanut oil. Add the carrot and potato and stir fry for 2 minutes. Add green beans and Chinese leaves. Cook for 3 minutes.


2. Add bean sprouts and cucumber and stir fry for 2 minutes. Remove veggies, place in serving dish and chill.


3. Make the peanut sauce or warm up store bought stuff. If you make it from scratch, my husband tells me that you can make it thicker by adding a little peanut butter...or simply using peanut butter instead of frying peanuts and pureeing. I believe him.


4. Garnish the veggies with slices of hard boiled egg and cucumber and serve with peanut sauce.

P.S. The picture in my cookbook is a lot prettier looking. This picture is just to give you a rough idea serving wise.