Pempek or Mpek-mpek
Pempek or Mpek-mpek

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, pempek or mpek-mpek. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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 one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Pempek or Mpek-mpek is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pempek or mpek-mpek using 22 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

Pempek, or others known as Empek-Empek or Mpek Mpek, is one of signature dishes from South Sumatera, precisely from Palembang Regency. Pempek is typical of fish cake that made of fish meat and tapioca powder and spices, and it serve with sweet and sour sauce called Cuko or Cuko, which typical of brown sugar vinegar, that made of brown sugar, vinegar, chili, garlic and salt. Di Pempek Ferlie kualitas bahan baku yang digunakan serta teknik pengolahan pempek dan cuko yang tepat menjadikan pempek kami memiliki cita rasa yang khas. Pempek atau empek-empek adalah makanan yang terbuat dari daging ikan yang digiling lembut yang dicampur tepung kanji atau tepung sagu, serta komposisi beberapa bahan lain seperti telur, bawang putih yang dihaluskan, penyedap rasa, dan garam. Pempek biasanya disajikan dengan kuah cuka yang memiliki rasa asam, manis, dan pedas.

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