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Gado-Gado (Indonesian Mix Vegetables)

Ingredients:
- 200 gr blanched/steamed vegetables
- 100 gr long green beans, steamed, trimmed and cut into 4-5 cm long
- 50 gr steamed cabbage, shredded
- 50 gr bean sprouts
- 50 gr lettuce
- 2 steamed carrots?julienned
- 2 steamed tomatoes, wedged
- 1 cucumber, sliced
- 2 boiled/steamed potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 1 hard boiled eggs, wedged
- 1 fried/baked tempe, sliced
- 1 fried/baked tofu, sliced
- 2 lontong (rice cake with log shape), cut into 1 cm thick
- 1 tbs ready-to-use fried shallot
- emping nuts/ shrimp crackers
Peanut sauce
- 5 cloves garlic, stir fried/fried/roasted
- 1 cup roasted/fried peanuts
- 5 red chilies, discard the seed and stir fried/fried
- 1/2 tsp belacan (dried shrimp paste), toasted
- 1 tsp coconut sugar
- 1 cup warm water or coconut milk (optional)
- salt to taste
Directions:
- Prepare the peanut sauce by grinding all sauce ingredients in a blender or using the traditional mortar and pestle. Put the sauce in a sauce pot. Add water if the sauce is too thick.
- Place lettuce, slices of lontong, potatoes, vegetables, boiled egg, tempe and tofu, tomato, and cucumber. Pour sauce over, garnish with fried shallot,? shrimp/emping nuts crackers.