Cheat Pempek (Fried Fish Cake in Sour Soup)
Cheat Pempek (Fried Fish Cake in Sour Soup)

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, cheat pempek (fried fish cake in sour soup). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Cheat Pempek (Fried Fish Cake in Sour Soup) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Cheat Pempek (Fried Fish Cake in Sour Soup) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

Serve these fried fish cakes or fish balls with the spicy tamarind sauce and you get an almost instant pempek. Serve pempek: Cut fried meatballs into halves or quarters and place in individual serving bowls. Serve with strained kuah cuko (spicy tamarind sauce), and optionally with boiled noodles and.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook cheat pempek (fried fish cake in sour soup) using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cheat Pempek (Fried Fish Cake in Sour Soup):
  1. Make ready 500 g white fish
  2. Make ready 120 g Tapioca flour
  3. Take 60 g wheat flour (or just use tapioca)
  4. Take 1 cup (250 g) water (iced/cold)
  5. Get 2 cloves garlic, minced
  6. Take to taste Salt and pepper
  7. Take Vegetable oil for deep frying
  8. Make ready Soup/Cuko
  9. Get 2 tablespoon vinegar (I use malt)
  10. Make ready 1.5 cup (375 ml) water
  11. Take 1 tablespoon garlic powder
  12. Take Salt and pepper
  13. Take 5 tablespoons palm sugar
  14. Make ready to taste Chili powder
  15. Make ready 2 teaspoons dried shrimp
  16. Make ready 4 teaspoons dried tamarind
  17. Get Garnish
  18. Get 6 eggs, boiled
  19. Prepare 1 cucumber, diced

They can also be made without the egg inside. Pempek refers to the old Chinese man who first produced these fish and tapioca cakes from Palembang in South Sumatra. Pempek is the best-known of Palembang's dishes and is made of fish and sago flours and served together with a dark, rich sauce called cuko. Cut fried pempek into bite sized pieces and put in a plate.

Steps to make Cheat Pempek (Fried Fish Cake in Sour Soup):
  1. Blitz the fish with the water inside a food processor. If you don't have a food processor, you can steam or boil the fish together with the water until it soften. then you can mix it together with the dry ingredient. Just ensure that the end batter is cold so that it's crunchy when fried.
  2. Boil the egg, preferably hard boiled. Set aside.
  3. Prepare the oil in the wok for deep frying. Traditionally you shape the batter to different shapes according to the filling, with the most common cylindrical, and half moon with egg filling. However, this is a cheat version, so just shape them with 2 spoons and put them straight to the oil to deep fry. You can fry them and store or store then fry, up to you.
  4. After you finish frying, you can make the soup/ cuko. Feel free to adjust the taste as I usually eyeball the garlic and the chili.
  5. Serve by cutting 4 pempek to bite sized chunks, 1-2 halves of boiled egg, and 1-2 tablespoon of cucumber. Add the soup. Originally it should be dipped but I like to drench the crispy fish cake and crunchy cucumber in cold sauce.
  6. Enjoy.

Add noodles and cucumbers above them and pour the soup. Please see preparation instruction: - Deep fry the fish cake / Pempek until golden brown when ready to eat - Heat up the sauce in stove or microwave - Slice the fried fish cake and pour the sauce over it - Enjoy! At home, eomuk guk (fish cake soup) can be prepared without skewers as an easy everyday soup! Domi Maeuntang (Spicy Fish Stew with Red Snapper). Fish Cake soup (Odeng Guk) is a favorite comfort food for all Koreans.

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