Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, pempek or mpek-mpek. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pempek or Mpek-mpek is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Pempek or Mpek-mpek is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Pempek, mpek-mpek or empek-empek is a savoury Indonesian fishcake delicacy, made of fish and tapioca, from Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia. Pempek is served with rich sweet and sour sauce called kuah cuka or kuah cuko (lit.vinegar sauce), or just "cuko". Sometimes local people also eat the dish with yellow noodles and diced up cucumber to balance out the vinegar's sourness. Pempek or Mpek-mpek is a delicacy from Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pempek or mpek-mpek using 22 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pempek or Mpek-mpek:
- Make ready For the Fish Cake :
- Make ready 1 kg gram flesh of Spanish mackerels, grounded
- Get 6 eggs yolks
- Get 400 ml ice water
- Make ready 4 tablespoon salt
- Prepare 2 tablespoon white sugar
- Prepare 2 teaspoon white pepper powder
- Prepare 2 teaspoon garlic powder
- Take 6 tablespoons vegetables oil
- Get 1 kg - 1.5kg sago flour/ tapioka flour
- Prepare For the Sauce (Cuko) :
- Get 500 gram palm sugar
- Prepare 4 tablespoons white sugar
- Take 10 cloves garlic
- Make ready 50 gram bird's eye chilli (optional)
- Get 1 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 3 tablespoon tamarind paste (deepen on how sour you like)
- Take 500 ml water
- Prepare Additional Ingredients :
- Make ready Cucumber
- Take Egg noodles, cooked
- Get Grinded dried shrimp (optional)
It is made of fish and sago flours and served together with a dark, rich sauce called cuko. Cuko is made from brown sugar, chilli pepper, garlic, vinegar, and salt to boiling water. There are many varieties of Pempek. The most famous one is the Pempek Kapal Selam (Indonesian: "submarine"), which is made from a chicken egg.
Instructions to make Pempek or Mpek-mpek:
- Grind all the ingredients to make fish cake, except sagoo/tapioca flour. Mix them well.
- Then take 1 tablespoon of fish batter, add about 2-3 tablespoons of sagoo flour, mix and shape pempek as you wish (usually long and round). Set aside and shape the rest of batter until finished.
- Boil the water using saucepan, and cook the pempek, about 15 minutes. When they are coming up to the surface, mean it cooked. Set aside.
- Deep fry the cooked pempek.
- Make the sauce (cuko): boil the water with all the ingredients until sugar is dissolved. Then grind the sauce using food grinder or hand mixer, filter.
- Serving: place the pempek in plate (you can cut into small pieces), add the noodle and then pour with the soup. Garnish with the cucumber. Some people like to add ebi (grinded dried shrimp).
There are many varieties of Pempek. The most famous one is the Pempek Kapal Selam (Indonesian: "submarine"), which is made from a chicken egg. Pempek (Empek-Empek, Mpek-Mpek) Pempek is a traditional Indonesian fish cake made with ground fish meat and tapioca. The actual origin of this dish is the city of Palembang, situated in the South Sumatra province. The origin story of pempek says that an old Palembang citizen was tired of the traditional fried or grilled fish, so he thought of.
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