Who doesn’t know Jadu Jadu? This typical Indonesian salad is very popular in different regions. This food consists of different types of boiled vegetables added with delicious peanut sauce. The gado-gado recipe for each region has its own differences and characteristics.
Initially, gado gado was a typical Betawi food. However, as time passed, this food began to spread to different regions in Indonesia. Generally, this food is served with lontong, so it is very filling to eat.
How to make gado gado is very easy. Come on, see the next recipe.
A collection of gado gado recipes
Gado-gado can now be found in different regions in Indonesia. Gado-gado in each region has its own characteristics. What is the difference like? How to make? Check out the discussion below!
1. Malang gado gado recipe
The typical malang gado gado features the addition of tomatoes and carrots which makes it taste fresh. The peanut sauce is also made from a mixture of coconut milk and brown sugar which makes the taste sweet and delicious.
Peanut sauce ingredients:
- 1 kilo of fried peanuts
- 250 grams of brown sugar dissolved with water
- 1 coconut to make 3 liters of coconut milk
- 11 fried garlic cloves
- Hot red pepper to taste
- 5 bay leaves
- 4 lemon leaves
- Salt to taste
- Half a kilo of boiled and mashed potatoes
- vinegar
Filling ingredients:
- Carrot
- cabbage
- lettuce
- option
- Steamed potatoes
- tomatoes
- Boiled eggs
- Fried tofu
- Fried tempeh
- Rice cake
How to make:
- Blend peanuts, garlic, red chili pepper, boiled potatoes and coconut milk until smooth.
- Cook the ground spices in a pan, then add the melted brown sugar, salt, vinegar, bay leaves and lemon leaves. Cook the spices until they thicken.
- Chop the carrots and cabbage, then boil them until tender.
- Drain, then arrange on plates.
- Cut lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes into slices, then arrange on plates.
- Add accompaniments such as rice cake, tofu, tempeh, and chopped eggs.
- Drizzle with peanut sauce.
- Typical Malang gado-gado is ready to be served.
2. Betawi recipe/Jakarta gado gado
The typical Betawi gado-gado is almost similar to the karedok from West Java. However, manufactured peanut sauce does not use coconut milk.
The vegetables used are also different. In a typical Betawi gado gado, the vegetables used are usually chayote, turnips, boiled potatoes, long beans and cucumbers. Add hard-boiled eggs, tempeh, and fried tofu as complementary dishes.
Peanut sauce ingredients:
- 120 grams of fried peanuts
- 25 grams of finely chopped brown sugar
- ¼ coconut to prepare 350 ml of coconut milk
- 2 lemon leaves
- ½ teaspoon tamarind
- Salt to taste
Ground marinade ingredients:
- 4 curly red hot peppers
- 3 fried garlic cloves
- ¼ teaspoon shrimp paste
Filling ingredients:
- Cut and boiled carrots
- Cabbage, cut into slices and then boiled
- lettuce
- option
- Cut and boiled potatoes
- Long beans, cut and boiled
- Boiled bean sprouts
- Boiled eggs
- Fried tofu
- Fried tempeh
- Rice cake
How to make:
- Peanut puree.
- Prepare the tamarind solution by adding two tablespoons of boiling water.
- Fry the lemon leaves and ground spices until tender and fragrant.
- Add the ground nuts and add the brown sugar, coconut milk and salt. Cook until boiling.
- Add the tamarind water and cook until it thickens.
- Arrange all the fillings in a serving dish, then sprinkle them with the cooked peanut sauce.
- Gado-Gado is ready to serve.
3. Surabaya gado gado recipe
The specialty of gado gado from Surabaya lies in the peanut sauce used. If the gado gado of Betawi does not use coconut milk in seasoning preparations, then in typical Surabaya gado gado there is a mixture of coconut milk in the peanut sauce.
Peanut sauce ingredients:
- 100 grams of roasted peanuts
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 75 ml of thick coconut milk
- 4 garlic cloves
- 200 ml of water
- Salt to taste
- 100 grams of red hot pepper
- 1 steamed potato
Filling ingredients:
- Cabbage, cut into slices and then boiled
- lettuce
- option
- Long beans, cut and boiled
- Steamed potatoes
- Boiled bean sprouts
- Boiled eggs
- Fried tofu
- Fried tempeh
- Rice cake
How to make:
- Fry garlic and hot pepper until fragrant. It is then mashed with peanuts, steamed potatoes, water and salt.
- Cook the peanut sauce, then add the coconut milk and leave it until it boils.
- Prepare a dish, and arrange the filling.
- Drizzle with peanut sauce.
- Surabaya Jadu Jadu Model is ready for serving.
4. Padang gado gado recipe
What’s special about the typical padang gado gado is that it has the addition of yellow noodles and red crackers Topping. If you look at the peanut sauce, it is almost similar to the typical Surabaya gado gado sauce that uses extra coconut milk.
Peanut sauce ingredients:
- ¼ kilo peanuts
- 4 garlic cloves
- 7 red onions
- 50 grams of red hot pepper
- Salt to taste
- 2 galangal slices
- 1 slice of ground ginger
- 1 stalk of ground lemongrass
- 4 lemon leaves
- 2 bay leaves
- 250 ml coconut milk
- Sugar according to taste
Filling ingredients:
- Pieces of boiled potatoes
- Boiled cabbage slices
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- Cucumber slices
- Slices of boiled eggs
- Cooked yellow noodles
How to make:
- Fried peanuts, chili peppers, garlic and shallots. Then mash.
- Cooking ground spices. Then add ginger, galangal, bay leaves, lemon leaves, lemongrass, coconut milk, sugar and salt.
- Cook until boiling and adjust the taste.
- When it’s done, pour it over the filling that’s been arranged on the plate.
- Gado-Gado is ready to serve.
5. Bangka gado gado recipe
What makes Bangka gado-gado special is the addition of wet noodles and watercress. The peanut sauce used is also different because it is prepared with ebi shrimp, shrimp paste and tamarind. In the Bangka region, this menu is often called Bangka lettuce.
Peanut sauce ingredients:
- 120 grams of well-fried peanuts
- 4 red onions
- Cayenne pepper as desired
- 65 ml of coconut milk
- ½ teaspoon shrimp paste
- 50 grams of brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon tamarind water
Filling ingredients:
- Contact the rebus
- Boiled carrots
- Boiled potatoes
- option
- Rice cake
- Boiled eggs
- Fried tofu
How to make:
- Peanut puree.
- Mix chili and shallots with water. Then stir until fragrant.
- Add the tamarind water, then add the coconut milk.
- Stir well then add the ground peanuts that have been refined.
- Add brown sugar and salt. Cook until boiling.
- Check the taste then turn off the heat.
- Arrange the filling on a plate, then sprinkle it with peanut sauce.
- Gado-Gado is ready to serve.
Tips for cooking gado gado
- Cook the beans until they are done and do not let them burn so that they do not taste bitter.
- Crush the cooked peanuts while they are still warm to release the oil that can add to the delicious taste of gado gado seasoning.
- If you want to produce a delicious, sticky condiment with a beautiful colour, you can replace granulated sugar with brown sugar.
- Immediately soak them in ice water after boiling green vegetables so they do not change color quickly. Then drain it when the vegetables cool.