Every people are familiar with salad. It contains of various choices vegetables like lettuce, sundried tomatoes, broccoli, or spinach. It serves with dressing stuff. Some people put crotons on it. However, not too many people know about Gado Gado, an Indonesian dish of vegetable serving with peanut sauce dressing.
Indonesian people eat gado gado in all occasions. They eat in their homes on a daily basis. It will be also served for special occasions like wedding banquet or Indonesian Independence Day.
Gado gado is made from particular vegetable like spinach, cabbage, string bean, corn and uncooked slice of cucumber. All the vegetables should be in a cooked condition. It accompanied with fried potatoes, tofu, and cooked slice eggs.
Peanut sauce dressing is usually cooked with mixture of palm sugar, chilies (to taste), lime juice, dried shrimp paste, salt, and water to dilute.
Both gado gado and salad are vegetables. In contrast, gado gado are consisted of fully cooked vegetables. On the other hand, salad ingredients are raw materials.
Salad dressings are usually ready for use. They are stored in jars or bottles. There are a bunch kind of salad dressing like blue cheese, Caesar, Italian, ranch, rice vinegar, honey dihon, thousand island, and extra virgin olive oil dressings. Unlike peanut sauce dressing, they should be cooked first. There are dried ones, yet I have still to cook them.
Bottom line, both salad and gado gado are the similar kind of vegetable with dressing. Both of them could be eat in all seasons.
