Lee’s Green Gado Gado

Green Gado Gado

Green Gado Gado

By: Lee Holmes

The rule of thumb when making gado gado is to keep the vegetables crispy. Try this delicious version.


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Recipe


Ingredients

  • ½ head Chinese cabbage, shredded
  • Bunch bok choy, roughly chopped
  • 250g green or snake beans, cut into 4cm lengths
  • 1 cup bean sprouts
  • 4 boiled eggs, peeled & halved
  • Crisp-fried garlic, to serve (optional)
  • Handful chopped nuts, such as almonds, peanuts or raw cashew nuts, to serve (optional)
  • Dressing
  • 1 small garlic clove, minced
  • 2–3cm piece of ginger, peeled & grated
  • 2 tbsp apple-cider vinegar
  • 2 tbsp additive-free coconut milk
  • 3 tbsp almond or peanut butter
  • 2 tbsp tamari
  • ½ tsp sesame oil
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 5 drops stevia liquid
  • Celtic sea salt & freshly ground black pepper

Method


  • Steam vegetables over saucepan of simmering water for 6 mins or until tender.
  • Meanwhile, to make dressing, place all ingredients in a bowl and whisk until well combined. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
  • Transfer vegetables to serving bowl and coat with dressing, tossing well to combine. Top with sprouts and eggs, sprinkle over crispy garlic and chopped nuts, if using, and serve.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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