Easiest Way to Cook Yummy Pempek or Mpek-mpek

Pempek or Mpek-mpek.

You can cook Pempek or Mpek-mpek using 22 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pempek or Mpek-mpek

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

Pempek or Mpek-mpek step by step

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)..