I tried to recreate a nice Gado-gado I’ve had from a take away place. Gado-gado is an Indonesian dish of a vegetable salad served with a peanut sauce dressing. I’ve made it into a one bowl dish with steamed rice underneath. Not a lot of cooking is involved in my version.

At the bottom I have steamed rice, then a layer of green cabbage which has been lightly braised in chicken stock and soy sauce. I kept a little bit of a bite in the green cabbage. Then topped with slices of cucumber, tomato and bean sprouts. On top a ready made peanut sauce. Yes I’m lazy, I don’t make my own peanut sauce. This one had a nice flavor, but I should have watered it down a bit more.

To make it completely vegetarian, substitute the chicken stock with vegetable stock. To add a bit of crunch and texture, I ate this with some (bought) prawn crackers.

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I love Indonesian pasties or pastel goreng as they are sometimes called. If you want more info or pics search for “Pastel Goreng”. They are deep fried pastries with meat filling. For the recipe I followed a Dutch website. As these weren’t exactly perfect I wont post a complete recipe. I also had way too much filling for the amount of dough I made.

I stuffed these with ground beef, rice noodles, garlic, onion, cube of beef stock, carrot, chopped boiled eggs and salt and pepper to taste.

The dough was a bit too firm, the recipe didn’t give out the amount of water needed. I think next time I’ll use more water next time. All in all, it wasn’t a bad attempt and we still enjoyed eating them. It’s a bit of a shame that you have to make big batches of these, mostly it’s just the BF and I.

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Tempeh Goreng is a sweet and spicy Indonesian side dish. The first time I tried it was at a friend’s house at a dinner party. They had bought it ready made at an Asian shop. 2 weeks ago I had a dinner party with the usual suspects (including Miss TokoNom) in The Hague and we made our own Tempeh Goreng. Now I did chop some ingredients, but I didn’t remember all that went in. So along with a vague memory and some online inspiration I made my own.
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Peel and boil the potatoes, mash them and add salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste. Leave too cool and add 1 egg and kneed into a dough.

Brown the mince, add the rest of the ingrediënts and let it cool. Take a handful of potato mixture and press the middle so you can stuff it with the filling. I also made round shapes which were a bit easier and snacksize. Then coat the croquette in toasted breadcrumbs. I didn’t double coat, but you could roll them in whisked egg and coat them again. Deep fry for a couple of minutes.

I made the croquettes yesterday, kept them in the fridge and fried them today.. yummy!!! Next time I’m going to try to add an onion to the filling.

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