Let’s cook pempek (fish cake) with a twist; fill it with cheese! the result must be so delicious. this pempek keju (fish cake with cheese filling) can also be a good business idea. we guarantee that you will never run out of customers.
pempek fish cake ingredients:
150 grams all-purposeflour
1,800 ml water
6 cloves garlic,grated
900 grams spanish mackerel fillet,mashed
6 tablespoons salt
3 tablespoons sugar
3 teaspoon seasoning
1,500 grams sago starch
500 grams cooking oilfrom frying
25 grams sago starchfor coating
filling ingredients:
500 grams cheddar cheese,cubed
cuko sauce ingredients:
1,200 grams brown palm sugar,finely chopped
4,500 ml water
25 grams tamarind
1 tablespoon salt
6 tablespoons vinegar
ground spices for cuko:
18 cloves garlic
sambal ingredients:
150 grams green bird’s eyechili pepper
900 ml water
1½ teaspoons salt
sides:
90 grams ebi (dried shrimps),toasted, ground
12 (1,200 grams) cucumber,deseeded, diced
600 grams fresh yellow noodles
- Pempek: boil all-purpose flour, water, and garlic and in the same time stir it until thick. Remove it from heat and let it warm.
- Pour it into the Spanish mackerel. Knead it. Add in salt, sugar, and MSG. Slam the dough repeatedly until it is elastic. Add in sago starch. Mix it well.
- Coat your hand with sago starch. Take 50 grams of pempek dough. Flatten it. Form it into a vessel with the lower side is thicker than the body.
- Fill it with cheese. Close and firm its edge. Repeat it until all dough and cheese are used.
- Boil it in 2,000 ml water added with 1 tablespoon cooking oil until it is done. Remove it from heat and drain it. Let it cool.
- Fry pempek over medium heat until it is golden yellow.
- Cuko: boil brown palm sugar and water until dissolved. Strain it. Add in ground garlic, tamarind, water, and salt. Cook it until thickened and boiling. Strain it.
- Sambal: boil green bird’s eye chili pepper, water, and salt until the liquid is bubbling. Grind it along with the boiled water.
- Serve Pempek Keju (Fish Cake with Cheese Filling) with cuko, sambal, and its sides.
