Indonesian Gado-gado (mixed vegetables with spicy peanut sauce)

I'm always happy to learn a new dish that I am not familiar with. Yesterday, I made a dish called Gado-gado which means "mix-mix". Recipes like this make me feel really excited. Gado-gado  is a very popular salad in Indonesia and has numerous regional variations. This is a quick, easy and healthy salad that you can have any time of the day. Often the vegetables are cooked and topped with spicy peanut sauce, hard-boiled eggs, krupuk (prawn crackers) and deep-fried tofu.

Ingredients
750g mixed vegetable (green beans, white cabbage, bean sprouts), cut into bite-sized pieces

3 large potatoes, peeled

4 eggs

For peanut sauce

1 cup chicken stock

5 small dried chillies

5 Tbsp crunchy  peanut butter

1 1/2 Tbsp palm sugar

1 Tbsp rice wine

 This sauce is so delicious!

Method

*Cook or blanch the vegetables and potatoes in batches (the hard varieties first) until just tender. Drain and set aside. Cut the potatoes into think slices.

*Hard-boil the eggs, peel and quarter.

*Arrange the vegetables, potatoes and eggs on a platter.

*For the sauce, pour the stock into a saucepan and the chillies and bring to  the boil. Reduce the heat and gradually stir in the peanut butter. Continue to cook and stir until sauce has thickened.

*Mix the palm sugar and vinegar and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Taste and season and add more sugar and vinegar if needed.

*Spoon the sauce over the vegetables and serve tepid, garnished with krupuk (optional).