Pempek or Mpek-mpek
Pempek or Mpek-mpek

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Pempek or Mpek-mpek Recipe

Pempek or Mpek-mpek is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Pempek or Mpek-mpek is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. 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:

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

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).

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