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• gado gado
  gado gado

  noun

  an Indonesian dish consisting of raw or slightly cooked vegetables, as green beans, bean sprouts, and cabbage, with baked or boiled potatoes, served with a spicy peanut, chile, and coconut milk sauce.
• gado-gado
  gado-gado

  noun

  an Indonesian dish of cooked mixed vegetables and hard-boiled eggs served with a peanut sauce

gado gado

American  

[gah-doh gah-doh] / ˈgɑ doʊ ˈgɑ doʊ /

Or gado-gado

noun

1. an Indonesian dish consisting of raw or slightly cooked vegetables, as green beans, bean sprouts, and cabbage, with baked or boiled potatoes, served with a spicy peanut, chile, and coconut milk sauce.

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gado-gado British  

/ ˈɡɑːdəʊˈɡɑːdəʊ /

noun

1. an Indonesian dish of cooked mixed vegetables and hard-boiled eggs served with a peanut sauce

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Etymology

Origin of gado gado

First recorded in 1920–25; from Indonesian gado-gado “hodgepodge, potpourri,” plural of gado “mix,” from mengado “to eat without rice”

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gado-gado

Cookbook author Rukmini Iyer writes that she got the idea from Indonesian gado-gado — particularly its sauce based on peanut butter, coconut milk and chiles.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2022

There are classic dishes: a chicken satay with a spicy peanut sauce, a beef rendang bubbling away in coconut milk bath that reduces so much it disappears, a bountiful gado-gado.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2020

Javanese warung canteens sell fried chicken and gado-gado mixed-vegetables served with peanut sauce.

From Time ● Aug. 3, 2017

Taking that one step further, I often serve raw vegetables with a spicy peanut dipping sauce for an Indonesian gado-gado salad.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2014