Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, pempek or mpek-mpek. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Pempek or Mpek-mpek is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Pempek or Mpek-mpek is something that I have loved my whole life.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pempek or mpek-mpek using 22 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pempek or Mpek-mpek:

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

Pempek or Mpek-mpek is a delicacy from Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia. 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. The most famous one is the Pempek Kapal Selam ( submarine), which is made from a chicken.

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, 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 Tunuatau Pempek Bakar Tunu yang berarti bakar dalam bahasa Palembang. Yuk kepoin kita di sini kapan buka order untuk Pempek Tunu ini.

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