INDONESIAN TRADITION FOOD: GADO – GADO Padang

Yesterday, I have trying to make gado – gado padang one of Indonesian culinary recipe. Padang is a city in west sumatra, Indonesia. All compositions of gado – gado I bought from Sentolo a traditional market not far from my house. My family says that my gado – gado is delicious. We enjoy with coconut water drinking for our fasting break in the evening. I have made gado – gado for seven big portions for all my family.

If you want to make this gado – gado tropical dish you need to prepare 7 medium boiling potatoes (solanum tuberosum) then cut any large ones into sixths, 7 small boiling eggs and cut the large ones into eights, boiling ½ half small chicken meat and slice manually, ½ medium bow of short time boiling sprout or pouring hot water into sprout about 15 minutes, ½ medium bow of cabbage slice into a small slices and pouring hot water about 15 minutes, 1 small bow of fry peanut than chopped smooth and fry until light brown, vegetable oil for frying peanut sauce, small crispy snack and onion fried for complete pouring over serving. For peanut sauce spices you need 9 red onion (Allium cepa), 7 white onions, 7 red hot chili (Capsicum spp), and salt all finely chopped and mixture with frying smooth peanut. Other spices 1 small ginger (Zingeber officinale rosk rhizome), 1 small galingale (Alpinia galanga (L) wild rhizome) chopped crude, 3 stick of lemongrass (citronella folium) choose the white part and crude chopped, 2 salam leafs (Syzygium polyanthum (Wight) Walp folium), 1 liters of milk squeezed from coconut, and enough sugar.

To make peanut sauce fry with vegetable oil ginger, galingale, salam leaf, lemongrass and sugar until natural aromatic smell. Add milk of coconut, add seasoning smooth peanut, and cook until look oily.

For beautiful decorative serving, on a medium platter, lay slice potatoes, slice cabbage, sprout, and slice eggs, slice chicken meat, cover with peanut sauce or mix it. Garnish with crispy snack, and fried onion.

Simple to make and delicious to enjoy, this one of traditional Indonesian food which I love. If you want other Indonesian tradition food maybe we can share how to make it. Enough for today see you, hope happy for all and thank you.

For further reading:

Kumpulan Resep Masakan Tradisional dari Sabang sampai Merauke by Badiatul Muchlisin Asti and Laela Nurisysyafa’ah. First Ed. 2009, MedPress, Jogjakarta – Indonesia.