Gado-Gado -Indonesian cooked salad with peanut dressing

Gado-Gado can be categorized salad I guess but all cooked *except the cucumber*. Steamed, Boiled,only in short time, until all the veggies are tender.

 

It's heaven!

The ingredients I used here

1 cup spinach

half cabbage

1 chayote squash

2 boiled eggs

1 pack of tempe

Half tofu 

1 cucumber

1 zuchini

Method

washed all the veggies

 diced and steamed the veggies except cucumber.

put the last minute before turning the stove off for spinach n zuchini.

Oops almost forgot, deep fried tofu and tempe that had been diced and soaked with salt water 5min. 

Prepare the Peanut dressing

I'm using ready one. Just add hot water maybe 1/2 glass to make thick dressing.

Click these links below 

Gado-Gado ready dressing 

Gado-Gado ready dressing 

Satay peanut dressing could be used too. Just add chili if you wanna have spicy.

Served with jasmine rice or Lontong/ketupat,

Indonesian rice cake.

P.S :  You can add more veggies such as Bean sprout, Water spinach. I just didnt have them for now :-)

Gulai Daun Singkong -shredded yucca leaves in coconut milk-

Holly Guacamolly :P I got plenty of yucca leaves from my Indonesian girl in Tampa and she said I should pick plenty so I can give some to Indonesian ladies in Jax as well. Oh Boy.. yea we Indonesians are crazy ha ha ha

I got back home around noon but still tired taking care of these leaves so at nite I was putting them in a cooler with some water to keep them fresh the next day when my girlfriend would pick, but some were not fresh when I checked in the morning, so I boiled and pressed and kept them in ziplock freezer bags for my own stock. Oh my I guess it will last till winter lol

Yucca tree or cassava tree is quite famous in Indonesia. We cook most of the time with it, the roots, the leaves, we love eating them, the roots especially for me. It can be cooked in plenty of ways and so yummy!

Now I got the leaves! this is the first time I cooked in FL. I browsed the recipe for Gulai Daun Singkong. 

Ingredients & Method

300gr of fresh yucca leaves, 

boiled with 1000ml water with 1 tbsp of salt

for about 10min

drained, shredded it. Put aside.

10 shallots ( I subs with half vidalia onion )

4 cloves of garlic

2 red chili peppers (you can add more for more spicy)

2 tsp of turmeric 

Blended in magic bullets by adding 1tbsp of olive oil

sauted

add the tiny dried shrimps *I forgot the name*

 shredded yucca leaves, add lemongrass, galangal,

 1000ml coconut milk, bring to simmer.

add salt, sugar as desired. 

Cook for about 20min or until the leaves tender.