Indonesian Food : Empek-Empek(Pempek)

This is the recipe of Empek-Empek I got 8)

Empek-Empek:

350 gr fish, defrosted
salt

25o ml water
25 gr flour
4 garlics
salt
broth powder

Tapioca powder as needed
Tofu, cut into small slices, steamed

Directions:
1. Blend the fish and salt finely, put aside.
2. Cook water, flour, garlics and broth powder until boiled. Stir well until smooth and thickened.
3. Add the fish paste into the flour mix and stir well until all blended together.
4. Add tapioca powder gradually until the fish mix becoming smooth and can be kneaded.
5. Take 1 tabelspoon of the dough and make a small ball, make it flat and fill in with a piece of tofu. Do the same until the tofu finished. If the tofu finished and you still have left over dough, you can make fish balls and it's called "Pempek Adaan".
6. After all dough been filled, put them in boiling water and let them cooked until they're floating. Then you can deep fry the pempek.

And for the sauce, use Dark cuko sauce.

This is the recipe of dark cuko sauce:

25 gr Indonesian tamarind paste or 4 tablespoons vinegar
100 gr palm sugar
1 eatspoon sugar
1/2 ltr water
4 bird's eye chili pepper
3 garlics
15 gr ebi (dried shrimp), soak in hot water, drained
1 teaspoons salts

Directions:
1. Crush dried shrimp, garlics and chillies finely.
2. Cook water and add with sugar, palm sugar, salt, tamarind paste and crushed ingredients. Let them boiled then the sauce is ready to use.

To serve, put noodles, slices cumcumber, slices pempek in the deep plate and pour with dark cuko sauce.

Enjoy !!! :D

Hahahahhahahahahaha still i can't eat this one coz yeah you know i hate it when i don't eat it with sauce.,

Hahah . .
I usually eat it .
=D
but,I never make it .
=(

i'll make it if i have time, you know, there are some empek2 around the town which is quite pricey, maybe you should make them and sell them

I agree with that .

so your gonna make and sell them?

Hell no .
I can't cook,anyway .

my favorite food in the cafeteria! thanks for the recipe although i can't cook, i can give this recipe to my mom. for the sauce: can i remove the chili? i don't like it, and if i remove the chili will it mess the sauce??

Maybe .
But,the taste will be little bit different,of course .

I forgot one thing

Have I eat this food before? I don't remember...

But that sure looks tasty...

empek-empek FTW, and it's better with chili.

what the hell??

Lol I didn't notice there's so much reply.

And yeah! Pempek FTW!!!


It sure tasty!!! Try it!

Yeah,it reminds me when I ate it in 1st time .
I didn't know that empek-empek is a traditional food .

Oh, u didn't know it?

Btw, when I first ate it, its really delicious and made me want to buy more... But since I'm cheap, I decided to search the recipe.

I'm sick of cooking,so that's why I don't want to cook .

Lol me too, that's why I ask to my mom to cook that...

i tried cooking it this morning (i'm using your recipe matatabi), results? edible, i'm not a great chef...

but it still tastes like one though

Are you sure you do have a good ingridients?
If you don't,then that's the problem .