Anyway, it is not an everyday food - it's time to time. And we have the right to enjoy food isn't it :-)
Warning !!!, we are used to cook without measurement. We call it 'kiro kiro bae' ... this is where your cooking skill is being challenged :-D
Portion for 4 people
Ingredients for dough (pempek)
- 200 gr multi purpose flour
- 200 gr tapioka flour
- salt
- a bit of sugar
- one maggi cubes
- 4 eggs
- water
- oil
Ingredients for the sauce (cuka)
- 100 gr palm sugar
- 12.5 gr
garlic, grind and make as paste
- 25 gr chilli paddy + big red chilli (2 pieces) - grind and make as paste
- 5 gr
salt
- 25 gr sugar
- 1 table spoon vinegar (25%), if you use apple vinegar then you need more
- 250 cc water
How to make pempek
- mix multi purpose flour with sugar, maggi cubes, salt and pour boiling water into it slowly. Pour the water until all the flour are wet and form like a dough
- then put one egg, mix it
- and then mix them with the tapioka flour
- beat the other 3 eggs in a bowl
- boil at least 2 litter of water
- form the dough like a pocket, and then pour the beaten egg inside and close it
- put it directly in the boiling water
- boil till they float, and then you can take out from the water
- leave it till cold
- cut and fry
How to make cuka
- boil the water
- put the garlic and chilli paste
- put the palm sugar
- put salt and vinegar
- taste, you can add salt, sugar or vinegar to your taste
How to serve
- put the pempek in a bowl, and then pour the cuka on top of it.
- and you can put shredded dried shrimp on top of it and/ or cuts of cucumber
Other option is not using egg but make the roll shape (like bolster) and then cut in the middle, put shredded dried shrimp, chilli paste and sweet soya sauce
