Pempek Palembang, a Traditional Food from South Sumatera

Pempek or empek-empek Palembang is a typical food made ​​from fish and sago. Actually it is difficult to say that the center is pempek Palembang because almost all areas in South Sumatra produce.
The presentation was accompanied by a sauce pempek black brown called vinegar or cuko (Palembang language). Cuko made ​​from boiled water, then add brown sugar, shrimp, dried shrimp and crushed chili, garlic, and salt. For the indigenous people of Palembang, cuko than once made ​​spicy to increase appetite. But with the influx of migrants from outside the island of Sumatra, it is now widely found cuko with a sweet taste for those who do not like spicy.

HOW TO MAKE PEMPEK PALEMBANG :

BASIC DOUGH pempek
ingredients:

1. 500 grams of meat or fish mackerel cork (choose a completely fresh)
2. 10 tablespoons ice water
3. 3 tablespoons of plain flour
4. 150 grams of flour
5. 1 egg white only.
6. 2 teaspoons of salt
7. 1/2 teaspoon MSG (can dilewat anti-MSG)

How to make:

1. Puree the fish with a sieve until smooth.
2. Enter the ice water, egg whites, MSG, and salt. Add flour and stir until well blended starch.
3. Shape the dough according to the type pempek

TIPS:

• The more fresh fish, the better the results pempek you create. Try to keep it in the refrigerator or freezer
• Many variations pempek existing recipes. To remember, the more liquid (water), the more starch to be added. Typically, the result was even harder.
• If you have difficulty forming pempek, coat your hands with oil, not the starch, because more and more and more flour to make the dough becomes hard.
• Pempek always fry in hot oil so pempek no glue on the bottom of the pan. Good at all if you use a pan with a teflon material. Fry pempek should not take too long so as not to rupture and explode.

cuko pempek
ingredients:

1. 250 grams of brown sugar, combed
2. 50 grams of tamarind
3. 2 teaspoons of vinegar
4. 750 ml of water
5. 5 cloves garlic, finely chopped
6. 2 tablespoons crushed dried shrimp
7. 20 pieces of cayenne pepper, crushed
8. 1 tablespoon tongcai, finely chopped
9. 1 teaspoon salt
10. How to make:

Boil brown sugar, tamarind, water, and vinegar then strain.
Add the garlic, dried shrimp, chili pepper, salt, and tongcai.
Bring to a boil again and lift.