Easiest Way to Make Quick Pempek or Mpek-mpek

Hello everybody, it's Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we're going to prepare a distinctive dish, Recipe of Homemade Pempek or Mpek-mpek. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Many things affect the quality of taste from Pempek or Mpek-mpek, starting from the type of ingredients, then the selection of fresh ingredients, the ability to cut dishes to how to make and serve them. Don't worry if you want to prepare Pempek or Mpek-mpek delicious at home, because if you already know the trick then this dish can be used as an extraordinary special treat.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have Pempek or Mpek-mpek using 22 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Pempek or Mpek-mpek is a delicacy from Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia. 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. The most famous one is the Pempek Kapal Selam ( submarine), which is made from a chicken egg wrapped within the Pempek dough and then deep-fried. #mpekmpek #thebestindonesianfood #frommykitchen #KeziaSmithKitchen #inaustralia

Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Pempek or Mpek-mpek:

1. For the Fish Cake :
2. 1 kg gram flesh of Spanish mackerels, grounded
3. 6 eggs yolks
4. 400 ml ice water
5. 4 tablespoon salt
6. 2 tablespoon white sugar
7. 2 teaspoon white pepper powder
8. 2 teaspoon garlic powder
9. 6 tablespoons vegetables oil
10. 1 kg - 1.5kg sago flour/ tapioka flour
11. For the Sauce (Cuko) :
12. 500 gram palm sugar
13. 4 tablespoons white sugar
14. 10 cloves garlic
15. 50 gram bird's eye chilli (optional)
16. 1 teaspoon salt
17. 3 tablespoon tamarind paste (deepen on how sour you like)
18. 500 ml water
19. Additional Ingredients :
20. Cucumber
21. Egg noodles, cooked
22. Grinded dried shrimp (optional)

Steps to make to make Pempek or Mpek-mpek

1. Grind all the ingredients to make fish cake, except sagoo/tapioca flour. Mix them well.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Deep fry the cooked pempek.
5. 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.
6. 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).

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