Empek Empek Palembang Recipe

Empek-Empek Palembang,never heard before?.Ok,I will tell you what is empek-empek.Empek-empek is traditional dish from Palembang city.This food made it from chopped fish with Indonesian season.Now,lets see the Ingredients.

Ingredients:

1. 50 g flour
2. 500 ml water
3. 2 cloves garlic (finely grated)
4. 500 g fish mackerel / Belida (finely chopped)
5. 3 tsp salt
6. 2 tsp sugar
7. 350 g starch
8. 2.5 liter water
9. 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
           

Cuko:

1. 50 g Javas tamarind
2. 150 g brown sugar (fine comb)
3.  700 ml water 

Seasoning:

1. 100 g cayenne pepper
2.  2 tablespoons tong suey
3.  5 cloves garlic
4.  2 tablespoons dried shrimp (soaked until soft, drained)  

Complement:

1. 150 g cucumber (cut small)
2. 50 g dried shrimp (soaked until soft, smooth mashed, roasted) 

Directions:

1. Stir flour with water and garlic. Cook over low heat while stirring until a thick porridge. Remove and let cool.
2.  Mix with fish meat,salt, sugar and starch. Stir until the dough is smooth and dull. 
3. (Let the dough mpek tough-mpeknya baseball, batter fish do not always mix together flour starch. Knead dough fish (without flour) until smooth. Only after dull mixed with cornflour. Diuleni do not Mix well again. The result is a legit mpek-mpek guns lost at mpek-native people mpek palembang).
4. Shape dough into silender (round length) to make empek-empek lenjer or fill with chicken eggs to empek-empek submarines.
5. Cook the water with oil until boiling.
6. Enter a dough that is shaped, boiled until the float. Drain.
7.  Cuko: Boil brown sugar and acid with water until boiling and sugar dissolves.  
8.  Remove and strain.
9. Cook returned with spices until boiling. Lift. Chill.
10. Serve: If you prefer, empek-empek fried until slightly yellow. Remove and drain.  
11. Cut into pieces. Give cucumber and Cuko. Sprinkle ebi smooth and serve.