gado-gado and chicken satay..

last week, i bought a woman weekly magz, and they have easy asian theme recipe pages, like laksa, fried noodle, and gado-gado. yes, they put the "gado-gado" word, not steamed veggies salad with peanut sauce dressing. :) and suddenly i want to eat gado-gado.

so yesterday, i went to the asian stores to buy the bottled peanut sauce for gado-gado, and ready made peanut sauce for chicken satay. i am lazy, and i never ever succeed on frying the peanut (read : burnt). so, to save my self from getting upset, i just bought them, KOKITA for gado-gado, and Enak Eco for the satay.

then i bought the ingredients (brocoli, carrot, gourmet potatoes, peas, cabbage), egg, tofu, tempe, and about 800gr chicken meat (chicken thigh more juicy than breast).

i marinated the chicken pieces in mashed garlic, kecap manis, kecap asin and a little bit oil, the longer the better, but if 3 hours is all you got, then go for it. meanwhile, soak the bamboo skewer in water to prevent got burned when we grill the satay. then, the pain part, threading chicken pieces into the skewer.. i got about 30 sticks of satay. saved 10 satay for abenk's lunch box tomorrow, and grilled the rest for tonight's dinner. and since we dont have a barbeque, i just toss them in the oven grill. they turned out good, welldone without those smokiness from chargrill.

the table was set for two, actually it was not SET, i just scattered everything on the table because I AM LAZY..

we have some ketupat lebaran from wina, and i bet abenk will have his satay and gado-gado accompanied by those ketupat. but me, NOT. i have always eat gado2 without carbs because i want to be full with fiber from the veggies, and protein from the tofu, tempe and chicken satay. YUMMO!

one of the best dinner i have ever cooked!

;p