What is Gado-gado?

This morning I started my usual activities, working in my own shop.
Before arriving at the shop I decided to stopping by to the small shop near my house. Gado gado yanti, is traditional culinary from Jakarta.

Gado-gado is a typical Jakarta food consisting of boiled vegetables then mixed together with peanut sauce. Gado-gado can also be eaten just like a salad with spices / peanut sauce, but can also be added with rice cake or rice.

There is something unique about Gado-Gado, the reason why does Gado Gado become a popular culinary in Indonesia. It was because during the mataram sultanate which was led by Sultan Agung, the raid in Batavia ran out of food supplies. They were run out rice, but VOC was burned of their rice. Then the Warok soldiers from Ponorogo made chili sauce from peanuts and then pour it on various vegetables. That is their way to survive at that condition. This action in Javanese is called Gado, which means eating only the side dish or eating without rice. What Warok did was followed by other soldiers to eat potluck vegetables that were poured with the spicy peanut sauce called pecel. After that Gado gado is contains about small slice, ​​rice cake, eggs and crackers. Nowadays, Gado Gado become a popular dish for breakfast. Which are served in small shop or restaurants.

The ingredients themselves consist of vegetables that we commonly find in the market, which are usually used are:

• Green vegetables in small slices such as kale, cabbage, long beans.
• Other vegetables such as bitter melon and cucumber.
• Sliced ​​boiled potato.
• Boiled eggs.
• Tempeh and tofu.
  For vegetables it is usually used raw, but there are also those who boil it first.

For peanut sauce consists of:

• Peanuts.
• Garlic.
• Chili, pepper.
• Lime juice.
• Salt, brown sugar.

This is what distinguishes gado-gado from a salad, for the dressing, the gado-gado varies, sometimes even adding shrimp paste, coconut milk, kencur and soy sauce.

How are you interested in trying?
A food that won't bore you, if you are a vegetarian it is perfect.

Thank you for reading.

Regards,
Tina,

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