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Gado gado bowl

an exotic tropical recipe, mixed vegetables served with rice & peanut sauce.

  • Author: With Added Love
  • Prep Time: 30 min
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 1 bowl 1x

Ingredients

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  • 1/2 cup rice
  • mixed vegetables of your choice: bean sprouts, bok choy, carrots, cucumber, cabbage, green beans, &/or cauliflower
  • optional: tofu & egg

toppings:

  • home-made peanut sauce 
  • optional:
    • Indonesian Emping cracker, aka: bitter nut cracker
    • crispy fried onions

Instructions

  1. prepare rice according to instructions.
  2. boil egg, medium to hard.
  3. optional: prepare bowl of water & icecubes (to shock been sprouts).
  4. when finished preparing, simply use 1 saucepan for all vegetables, one at a time, quick blanch, taste for doneness before removing from pan.
    • bean sprouts: remove wilting ends if preferred, blanch, shock with ice-cold water to preserve crisp texture.
    • green beans: remove both end-tips, blanch.
    • bok choy: chop & cook.
    • cabbage: chop & cook.
    • cauliflower: trim flowers into preferred size, cook or serve raw.
  5. vegetables that i prefer not-cooked, set aside for later use:
    • carrots: cut into long thin strips.
    • cucumber: peel off skin, cut into long-halves. remove seeds, slice into preferred thickness.
  6. prepare dressing.
  7. assemble your bowl: start with rice at the bottom, group each veggies on top of rice.
  8. decorate with sliced egg, peanut sauce, some empings, &/or crispy fried onions to your liking.
  9. ¡bon-Appetit!  or  ¡Selamat makan!  if you prefer!
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