Pempek Keriting Wortel

(Curly Carrot Fish Cake)

Friday, 3 June 2016 | 16:57 WIB
Pempek (fish cake) indeed has a lot of variations. however, it does not mean that we cannot add more variations. in fact, we can make it healthier by adding vegetables like in this pempek keriting wortel (curly carrot fish cake) recipe. besides adding more nutrition, carrot also gives prettier color to this dish.

Pempek Keriting Wortel (Curly Carrot Fish Cake)

Ingredients

20 grams all-purpose flour
100 ml water
100 ml carrot juicefrom 200 grams carrot smoothly blended with 50 ml water and squeezed
1 garlic, grated
300 grams spanish mackerel,mashed
1 tablespoon salt
½ tablespoon sugar
200 grams sago starch
3 tablespoons sago starchfor coating
water for boiling
cooking oil for frying

sides
1 cuko recipe from submarine pempek fish cakewith salted egg recipe
1 sambal recipe from submarine pempek fish cakewith salted egg recipe
1 side dish recipe from submarine pempek fish cakewith salted egg recipe

Cooking Steps

  1. Boil all-purpose flour, water, carrot juice, and garlic and keep stirring it until it is thickened. Remove it from heat and let it warmed.
  2. Pour it into Spanish mackerel. Knead it. Add in salt and sugar. Slam it repeatedly until elastic. Add in sago starch. Mix it well.
  3. Coat string hoppers mould with sago starch. Add in a little bit pempek dough. Squeeze the dough into strings in circular motions. 
  4. Boil the pempek until firm and well-cooked. Remove it from heat and drain it. Let it cool.
  5. Fry it over medium heat until crispy and well-cooked. Remove from heat.
  6. Serve Pempek Keriting Wortel (Curly Carrot Fish Cake) with cuko, sides, and sambal.