Pempek Palembang ( fish cake )

Pempek is a typical food of Southern Sumatra (Palembang) with basic ingredients of spanish mackerel and sago flour. For the long shape called pempek lenjer and round shape filling with egg called pempek kapal selam. This food not only popular in Palembang but also around Indonesia. This time, I made basic with eggs and sago flour (pempek DOS). Although without fish but taste was still delicious. Cuko and cucumber as complement. I will share pempek and cuko recipe. Hope you guys enjoy and try this recipe. Do you have any comment?

PEMPEK RECIPE 
Ingredients:
200 ml water
4 garlic, grated
200 gram all purpose flour
300 gram sago flour
2 eggs

How to make :
- Boiled water and salt to boiling.     Pour all purpose flour little by little. Stir until blended and thick. Turn off the heat, set a side and then put to refrigerator and let stand for 30 minutes.

- after 30 minutes remove the dough from the refrigerator and then put eggs into the dough and mix well.

- Add sago flour little bit little until the dough is not sticky.

- Form it oval and make hole in middle by point finger. Put one broke raw egg. To make it easy, broke egg into bowl then take yolk with spoon, put to hole in the middle pempek then put egg white. Cover the hole with press slowly on top of the dough.

- For pempek lenjer, form it long shape.

- Boiled water to a boil, put pempek, wait for it to float and then immediately remove and set aside.

- When you want to serve, deep fry pempek until golden brown, set aside and then cut into pieces.

- Place on a plate with noodle, cucumber and cuko.

pempek lenjer and pempek kapal selam after boiling