Gado Gado

The well known Indonesian dish made from cooked and raw vegetables served with a spicy peanut sauce. It's an excellent summer supper, made with vegetables from the garden, whatever you have and lots of rich creamy dressing.

Because every time I make this, I make it slightly differently I'm not going to give much of a recipe; assemble some fresh chopped green leaves, I used rocket here and top with sliced cucumber, slices of cooked potato, lightly steamed green beans, tomato if you like (wiki claims this is not traditional) and seared tofu. The strange little pods in the picture are green seed pods from the radishes, crisp and gently spicy. Coriander leaf is a nice but not essential addition.

Use a commercial sate sauce or whip up your own from peanut butter, dark sugar, lime juice, soy sauce, garlic, a little oil, chillies to taste and enough coconut milk and water to make a smooth pouring sauce, simmered a little to combine the flavours and served warm. I usually use the marinade from the tofu as a base adding peanut butter and coconut milk to make the sauce.

Enjoy on any summer's evening.