This article is sponsored by The Very little Potato Corporation.

Are you ready for new and hearty veggie-loaded meals? I am! Spring makes me crave new veggies and copious quantities of peanut sauce. Because I’ve made my veggie spring rolls (and variations) as well a lot of moments to depend, I figured it was time to try out a thing a very little various. This Indonesian gado-gado-impressed salad is suitable up my alley.

Usually, gado-gado (which interprets to mix-mix) is a hearty Indonesian salad with cooked and new veggies (custom made primarily based on what’s offered and in time), fried tempeh or tofu, difficult-boiled eggs, a good deal of rich peanut sauce, and toppings like ground peanuts, fried onion, and prawn crackers. All we have to do to veganize this delicious salad is take away the eggs and swap out the prawn crackers for rice crackers. How very simple is that?

Our variation is major on the new veggies: shaved purple cabbage, slender-sliced cucumber and radish, julienned carrot, green onion, and cilantro (if you have obtained ’em, increase some bean sprouts as well.) In the cooked veggie division we’re working with tender-skinned Fingerling potatoes (from The Very little Potato Corporation) and blanched green beans. The Very little Potato Company’s Fingerlings are perfection in this salad! Together with protein-rich tempeh and peanut sauce, the Creamer potatoes add a certain “oomph” to this salad. Fingerlings have a superb tender-firm texture that’s great for salads. Very little Potatoes do double obligation as a comforting resource of carbs and a vegetable chock-whole of nutrients like potassium, iron, and vitamin C. They cook dinner pleasant and swiftly with no peeling necessary – that means extra fibre for you!

The peanut sauce in this recipe is a little various from my typical go-to. Gado-gado peanut sauce takes advantage of floor peanuts, palm sugar, garlic, chilies, tamarind, lime juice, and salt. To conserve time, we’re working with peanut butter, sambal + crimson curry paste (in put of the chilies),  and a food processor. Unfortunately I couldn’t get my arms on any tamarind domestically, so that had to be left out. If you have some useful, use it! Tamarind provides a pleasant sweet and sour tang, so you could like to minimize the amount of coconut sugar and lime juice to compensate. This zippy, creamy sauce ought to be served warm. Be guaranteed to taste and alter the sauce to go well with your choices: sweeten it up with further coconut sugar,  or make it zippier with an further squeeze of lime.

This is a good create-your-own-bowl food. The amount of each and every vegetable can be adjusted however you like (you are going to want a overall of at the very least 4 cups of veggies – not like the potatoes). For an further fulfilling food, add a scoop of brown rice. The peanut dressing recipe makes enough for about 4 massive bowls. After you have assembled your bowl, prime it with fried onion, crushed salted peanuts, and a squeeze of lime. Howdy veggie heaven!

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