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Pempek Recipe

What is Pempek? 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. Cuko is made from brown sugar, chili pepper, garlic, vinegar, and salt to boiling water.

Pempek Recipe

serves 4

cook time 30 min, prep time 15 min

Pempek Ingredients:

Fish Cake

  • 500 gram flesh of Spanish mackerels, grinded – you can also used other fillet fish such as herring, pangasius

  • 3 egg yolks

  • 200 ml ice water

  • 2 tbsp  salt

  • 1 tbsp white sugar

  • 1 tbsp white pepper powder

  • 1 tbsp garlic powder

  • 3 tbsp vegetables oil

  • 800 – 1000 g sagoo/tapioca flour

Soup (Cuko)

  • 250 g palm sugar

  • 2 tbsp white sugar

  • 6 cloves of garlic, no need to peel the skin

  • 25 g bird’s eyes chillies

  • 1/2 tsp salt

  • 1 tbsp of tamarind (depend how sour you want the soup is)

  • 250 ml water

Additional optional Ingredients

  • Cucumber

  • Egg noodle, fried

  • Grinded dried shrimp

Pempek preparation:

  1. Grind all the ingredients to make fish cake, except sagoo/tapioca flour.

  2. Mix them well.

  3. Then take 1 tablespoon of fish batter, add about 2-3 tablespoons of sagoo flour, mix and shape  pempek as you wish. Set aside and shape the rest of batter until finished.

  4. Boil the water using saucepan, and cook the pempek, about 15 minutes. When they are coming up to the surface, mean it cooked.

  5. Deep fry the cooked pempek.

  6. Make the soup: boil the water with all the ingredients until sugar is dissolved.

  7. Then grind the sauce using food grinder or hand mixer,  filter.

  8. 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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