Simple Way to Make Delicious Pempek or Mpek-mpek

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, pempek or mpek-mpek. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pempek or Mpek-mpek is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Pempek or Mpek-mpek is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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. Take 1 kg gram flesh of Spanish mackerels, grounded
3. Get 6 eggs yolks
4. Take 400 ml ice water
5. Prepare 4 tablespoon salt
6. Take 2 tablespoon white sugar
7. Make ready 2 teaspoon white pepper powder
8. Take 2 teaspoon garlic powder
9. Get 6 tablespoons vegetables oil
10. Take 1 kg - 1.5kg sago flour/ tapioka flour
11. Take For the Sauce (Cuko) :
12. Take 500 gram palm sugar
13. Make ready 4 tablespoons white sugar
14. Take 10 cloves garlic
15. Prepare 50 gram bird's eye chilli (optional)
16. Get 1 teaspoon salt
17. Make ready 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)

Steps 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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