Summer time time is the best opportunity enjoy refreshing salad, especially when it's hefty enough to enjoy like a meal. I believe there's no finer lunch available within the warm weather when every bite is fresh, tangy, nutty, sweet, and sour all-in-one.
I will suggest the normal ingredients to create this salad, including fried tofu (this can be a must), bakwan (fritters ) of your liking, shredded lettuce leaves, tomato and cucumber cubes. Apart from the tofu, you can utilize any vegetable as well as meat of your liking, then match the tofu, and dress the salad using the peanut sauce.
Tahu Goreng Medan - Medan Fried Tofu Salad with Peanut Sauce
Author: Daily Cooking Quest
- 200 gram firm tofu, reduce 1 " cubes, fried until golden brown
- 400 gram lettuce leaves, shredded
- 400 gram cucumber, peeled, seeded, and reduce ½ inch cubes
- 400 gram tomato plants, peeled, seeded, and reduce ½ inch cubes
- 400 gram bakwan (fritters), reduce 1 " cubes
- 100 gram peanut, fried or roasted
- 50 gram palm sugar (Indonesian: gula Jawa)
- 50 gram Chinese celery (Indonesian: daun seledri) (*)
- 3 cloves garlic clove
- 2 red red pepper cayenne (Indonesian: cabe merah keriting) (**)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 500 ml water
- 120 ml sweet soy sauce (Indonesian: kecap manis)
- juice of 5 limes
- Divide the salad ingredients into 6 salad plates/bowls.
- To help make the dressing, grind peanut, palm sugar, Chinese celery, garlic clove, red pepper cayenne, and salt inside a mixer. Transfer to some mixing bowl, add all of those other dressing ingredients, and blend well. Divide into six portions.
- Serve the salad along with the peanut sauce dressing.
(*) Use regular celery if you fail to find Chinese celery, use because the leaves as you possibly can.
(**) Use bird eye chilies (Indonesian: cabe rawit) for any spicier dressing.