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Gado Gado (Mixed Vegetable Salad With Indonesian Peanut Sauce)

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Photo of Gado Gado on a plate with peanut sauce fried pork skins and plates on the side.
Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Rebecca Jurkevich

This delicious salad can be eaten as a first course or a main meal. Most of the prep work involves cutting and blanching the vegetables, but it goes by quickly. Prawn crackers are the traditional accompaniment, but store-bought vegetable chips make a great vegan substitute. If you're short on time, you can turn this into a fresh salad using lettuce, spinach, cucumbers and/or carrots.

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