About karedok
Indonesian salad dish
Karedok is a raw vegetable salad in peanut sauce from Sundanese region, West Java, Indonesia. It is one of the Sundanese signature dish. It traditionally includes longbeans, cucumbers, bean sprouts, cabbage, legumes, lemon basil, chayotes and small green eggplant, covered in peanut sauce dressing, but there are now many variations. It is very similar to gado-gado, except all the vegetables are raw, while most of gado-gado vegetables are boiled, and it uses kencur, lemon basil and eggplant. Karedok is also known as lotek atah for its fresh and raw version of the vegetable covered with peanut sauce. Karedok is widely served as daily food in the Sundanese family, usually eaten with hot rice, tofu, tempeh, and krupuk. Nowadays karedok can be found in many variation from hawkers carts, stalls (warung) as well as in restaurants and hotels both in Indonesia and worldwide.
Key Ingredients
- table salt
- sugar
- mung bean sprout
- chili pepper
- Ocimum tenuiflorum
- peanut
- shrimp paste
- Kaempferia galanga
- asparagus bean
- Pachyrhizus erosus
- Solanaceae
Dietary Information
✓ Vegetarian friendly
✓ Popular street food
✓ Must-try when visiting Indonesia
Traditional Indonesia cuisine
