Gado Gado-Salad with Peanut sauce

Gado Gado is an Indonesian salad with peanut sauce dressing. The vegetables usually are boiled/steamed, here I used a version of roasted veggies. Of course that is your choice of vegetables and how you process it. Peanut sauce given here is more of a sweeter version.

Method:

Peanut sauce:

1. Roast 1 cup of  peanuts,2 dry red chillies,5 garlic cloves and  2 tspn of coriander seeds for 1 min.
2. After cooling it, grind these along with onion,2 tspn palm sugar, required salt into mildly coarse paste.
3. Transfer it to a pan, add a cup of water. Let it blend for 2 min.
4. Add bay leaf and let it get mixed well for 3 more min.
5. Add 2 tblspn soya sauce and a cup of thick coconut milk.
6. Check and add required salt. You can add 1 more spoon of soya sauce if needed.
7. Leave it until you get a saucy consistency. Water can be added if you feel it is more thick.
8. Fragrant peanut sauce is ready.

Roasted Vegetables:

1. Add a tspn of butter, roast Zucchinis for 2 min in a pan. Remove from heat.
2. Add a tspn of butter, roast mushrooms for 3 min in quite high flame. Remove from heat.
3. Add 1 spoon of oil, add spinach leaves and carrots. Stir fry until it is done.
4. Toss all the vegetables with some salt.
5. Add uncooked bean sprouts at last.
6. I added some chilli flakes too.
7. Finally add lime juice from half a lemon.

Pour peanut sauce on the veggies and enjoy a healthy bowl.