Steps to Make Homemade Pempek or Mpek-mpek

Pempek or Mpek-mpek
Pempek or Mpek-mpek

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, pempek or mpek-mpek. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pempek or Mpek-mpek is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Pempek or Mpek-mpek is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

Pempek, mpek-mpek or empek-empek is a Savoury Indonesian fishcake delicacy, made of fish and tapioca. Pempek is served with rich sweet and sour sauce called. Pempek or Mpek-mpek is a delicacy from Palembang, South Sumatra. It is made of fish and sago flours and served together with a dark, rich sauce called cuko.

To get started 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 cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pempek or Mpek-mpek:
  1. Take For the Fish Cake :
  2. Prepare gram flesh of Spanish mackerels, grounded
  3. Make ready eggs yolks
  4. Prepare ice water
  5. Prepare salt
  6. Make ready white sugar
  7. Take white pepper powder
  8. Prepare garlic powder
  9. Get vegetables oil
  10. Prepare - 1.5kg sago flour/ tapioka flour
  11. Make ready For the Sauce (Cuko) :
  12. Take palm sugar
  13. Take white sugar
  14. Make ready garlic
  15. Get bird's eye chilli (optional)
  16. Take salt
  17. Get tamarind paste (deepen on how sour you like)
  18. Take water
  19. Get Additional Ingredients :
  20. Get Cucumber
  21. Take Egg noodles, cooked
  22. Take Grinded dried shrimp (optional)

It will then be sliced into bite-size and served with lightly spicy, sweet and tangy sauce drizzle on top of it. Why you will like this pempek ikan Palembang recipe. I've tried many many differet pempek ikan recipes throughout the year. Pempek or mpek-mpek, popular savory fish cake dish from Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia.

Instructions 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).

I've tried many many differet pempek ikan recipes throughout the year. Pempek or mpek-mpek, popular savory fish cake dish from Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia. Served in sweet and sour sauce (kuah cuka) accompanied with egg noodle and cucumber. Pempek, mpek-mpek or empek-empek is a savoury fishcake delicacy from Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia. It is made from fish, tapioca and spices.

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