Recipes: Gado Gado and Sauteed Kale or Long beans

Gado Gado

Gado-gado is dish originally  from Indonesia. This particular recipe is Javaness version, but there are other types of gado gado from Jakarta, Bali.etc. It is a very  popular dish and is very easy to find street vendors, market, and restaurant.  The dish consits of the boiled vegetables and vegetable proteins served with a peanuts sauce.

Ingredients:

Two or three medium cube tofu, two tempeh patties, o ne hard-boiled eggs, 150 g green beans, 200 g fresh lettuce, cucumber, melon and cabbage. ( washed well ). Five cloves garlics, mashed  or finelly minced. Five sheet of  lime leaves. Salt to taste, coriander, vegetable oil for friying, sauce, 50 brown sugar, 500 coconut milk,acidic water,garnish such as fried chips or fried onion ( optional ), Unsweetenned peanut butter.

Directions.

Boild all vegetables until cooked but firm, set asude, heat a friying pan, add the vegetable oil, garlic, chilli, lime leaves, and saute lihgtly, add coconut milk, and unsweetenned peanut butter, Stir until smooth, add acidic water and brown sugar, simmer lihgtly until sauce is evenly mixed. Set aside. In separated heated  and oil pan, fry the tempeh and tofu, until golden brown, set aside.

Slice boiled vegetables into bite-sized pieces, arange on a plate. Peel and cut the hard-boiled egg into a few thick slices and arrange.add tempeh and tofu and then pour the peanut sauce over the plate.

Please enjoy

Sauteed Kale Or Long Beans

This is a dish often cooked by th people of Indonesia and is very taste, easy and inexpensive. Since kale has properties that can make people sleepy. It is meal best enjoyed at home.

Ingredients :

1. 0ne bunch kale
2. One large red chilli
3.  One small red capsicum (cayenne pepper ) to taste
4.  Five springs onions
5. Two cloves garlic
6. Approx, 3 oyster sauce
7. Galangal 1/3 of a knuckle
8.   Salt ( to taste )
9.   Palm sugar ( to taste )
10.  Shrimp paste ( to paste )
11.  One tomato
12. Butter or oil for frying

Cooking sauteed kale

1. Prepare the kale that jas been cleaned up, removing spines and stams
2.  Dice the onion and garlic , tomato and peppers
3.  Heat the butter or oil in a frying pan, suate the onion and garlic until fragrant
4. Put chilies, shrimp paste galangal and immediatelly poor in oyster sauce seasoning when th mixture is nearly done pan-frying
5.   Add kale,make sure that the kale has been thoroughly washed  and patted dry or the extra water shaken off. Do not add axtra water to the pan.
6. When close to done or done, add the salt and sugar to taste. It is likely not much  salt is needed, since the shrimp paste and galangal  are already quite
7.   Add the tomatoes  and serve.