Gado-gado

One of Indonesia's best-known dishes, Gado-gado is essentially a vegetable salad bathed in the country’s classic peanut sauce. Its base are boiled long beans, spinach, potato, corn, egg and bean sprouts coupled with cucumber, tofu and tempe.

Sundanese and Javanese also call it as lotek. The term gado or the verb menggado means to consume something without rice. It literary means "mix-mix" since it is made of rich mixture of vegetables such as potatoes, string beans, bean sprouts, spinach, chayote, bitter gourd, corn and cabbage, with tofu, tempeh and hard-boiled eggs, all mixed in peanut sauce dressing, sometimes also topped with krupuk and sprinkles of fried shallots.

Gado-gado is different from lotek atah or karedok which uses raw vegetables. Another similar dish is the Javanese pecel.