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GADO GADO

EVK’s vegan, Indonesian-style Gado Gado (‘Mix-Mix’) Salad!

Ingredients

Scale
  • small-medium-sized waxy potatoes (or whatever potatoes you have!), 3-4 per person
  • 1 large handful of bean sprouts
  • pack of tempeh (or smoked tofu, puffy tofu, firm tofu, etc.)
  • 1 avocado
  • 2 carrots
  • 1/2 a cucumber
  • 2 green onions
  • 1 mango (or peach)
  • 1/2 a red pepper
  • handful of cashews

OPTIONAL:

  • blanched green beans
  • blanched spinach or kale
  • pea shoots (for a deluxe presentation!)
  • 2 medium tomatoes or a few cherry toms
  • small green papaya
  • iceberg lettuce
  • boiled eggs
  • cooked chicken

Instructions

  1. Wash your potatoes and give them a quick trim of any ugly bits. Keep as much of the peel as you can!
  2. Boil them in a pot of water until they break up a little when you crush down on them, about 15 minutes depending on their size. Strain.
  3. Set your oven for 450˚F/230˚C. Coat the bottom of a cast-iron pan of other oven dish with a good splash of canola (or other high temp) oil. Throw your potatoes in and give them all a little crush-down so they break up a bit. Toss on a little more oil and salt and pepper.
  4. Cook them until they are all sexy and crispy, about 40 minutes, tossing them occasionally.
  5. Rinse your bean sprouts and blanch them in a pot of boiling water for about 2 minutes, so they are a little limp but still firm. Strain.
  6. Cut your tempeh to size and fry it in a little canola oil or grill it lightly in an oiled grill pan.
  7. Roast some cashews in the oven at 325˚F/165˚C until nicely toasted.
  8. Cut all the fresh fruit and veg to desired size, avocados last. Squeeze a little lime juice over your avos to keep them from oxidizing.
  9. Arrange everybody attractively on a platter so people can build-their-own salad.
  10. Enjoy!