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GADO-GADO | Indonesian Food

Gado Gado is one food that came from Indonesia in the form of vegetables, boiled and blended into one, with a seasoning or sauce of crushed peanuts with sliced ??egg and fried onions sprinkled on top and slightly fried chips crackers are also some that use shrimp crackers.

Gado-gado foodstuffs:

Rice cake, 1 piece
Long beans, 50 grams, cut into 4 cm, boiled
Cabbage, 50 grams, roughly cut and boiled
Leaf lettuce, 4 slices
Sprouts, 50 grams
Young cucumber, 1 / 2 fruit
Fried tempeh, 1 fruit, cut into squares
Fried tofu, 1 piece, cut into squares
Boiled potatoes, 1 fruit, cut into squares
Boiled chicken eggs, 1 whole, chopped 6 parts
Shrimp crackers or chips to taste

Peanut Sauce:

Fried peanuts, 30 grams
Coconut milk, 250 ml
Red pepper, 3 pieces, cut into pieces and stir-fry
Fried garlic, 1 / 2 tablespoon
Fried shallots, 1 tablespoon
Acid water, 1 / 2 tablespoon
Salt to taste
Comb brown sugar, 1 / 2 tablespoon
Shrimp paste, 1 / 2 teaspoon
Bay leaves, 1 sheet

How to cook:

Peanut sauce: Puree the roasted peanuts, red onion, garlic and shrimp paste.
Add red chilli, mashed.
Enter your spices in a saucepan, add the other seasoning ingredients. Boil, stirring frequently until boiling and oily, remove from heat.
Arrange in a serving dish, rice cake, vegetables, tofu, tempeh, potatoes and eggs.
Pour the peanut sauce to taste. Add crackers or chips on top and serve.

For Gado-gado Serves 2

Gado-gado Tips:

When cooking sauces, use low heat and continue stirring to keep warm at the bottom of the pan.
Vegetables can be changed according to taste /
Do not boil vegetables for too long to keep it crispy.

Pempek or Empek-empek is typical Palembang food made from fish and sago. Actually it is difficult to say that its center is Palembang pempek because almost in all areas in South Sumatra produce it.

Presentation pempek sauce accompanied by brownish black, called vinegar or cuko (Palembang language). Cuko made from boiled water, then add brown sugar, shrimp, dried shrimp and crushed chili, garlic, and salt. For the indigenous people of Palembang, cuko than once made spicy to increase appetite. But with the entry of migrants from outside the island of Sumatra is now commonly found cuko with a sweet taste for those who do not like spicy. Cuko can protect teeth from caries (damage layer of email and dentin). Because in one liter of broth solution pempek there are usually 9-13 ppm fluoride. a complement to the distinctive taste of this meal is a slice of fresh cucumber dice and yellow noodles.

Type pempek famous is “pempek submarine”, which is chicken wrapped in egg batter and fried pempek in hot oil. There are others such as pempek lenjer, pempek round (or known by the name “ada’an”), pempek fish skin, pempek pistel (young papaya slices in it that has been boiled with herbs), pempek small eggs, and pempek curly.

Pempek could very easily be found throughout the city of Palembang. Pempek sold everywhere in Palembang, one selling at a restaurant, there is alongside a road, and also there is a bear. Canteens in all schools / workplace / campus there must be a sell pempek. In the 1980s, ordinary pempek seller carry a basket full pempek Kilkenny City while traveling on foot peddle food. Pempek now there are two types: regular and Parempek Pempek, a mixture between Pare and Pempek