PEMPEK
Pempek, mpek-mpek or empek-empek is a savoury fishcake delicacy from Palembang,[1]South
Sumatera, Indonesia, made of fish and tapioca. Pempek is served with rich
sweet and sour sauce called kuah cuka or kuah cuko (lit. vinegar sauce),
or just "cuko". Sometimes local people also add yellow noodles for variations.
Dough
Pempek dough is made from a mixture of boneless ground fish meat,
most commonly tenggiri (wahoo), with water, salt and sago flour. People
sometimes add a little bit of cooking oil and/or wheat flour to improve
texture and not to make the pempek too chewy and to add MSG to enrich the
umami taste. Ikan gabus (snakehead) is also commonly made as pempek. Numerous
pempek sellers and producers in Palembang use a cheap combination of fish,
which has a strong scent. According to tradition, the best tasting pempek
are made of belida or belido (Chitala lopis), but due to its rarity and
superior taste, pempek made from this fish are usually more expensive.[
The dough is boiled in hot water or steamed until hardened as partly cooked
dumplings, and stored to be fried later just before serving.
Which is made from a chicken egg wrapped within the pempek dough and then deep-fried. The shape is similar to Chinese dumplings but larger in size. According to food science and technology scientist, the pempek kapal selam, with egg addition, is rich in protein, fat, vitamin a, mineral,and carbohydrate content, is the most nutritious variety.[6] The name derived from the shape of pempek that resembles submersible midget submarine.
filled with egg similar to pempek kapal selam, but smaller in size.
its shape is similar to sausages.
the dough is made into small noodle ball. This similar process also applied to produce white krupuk.
the shape and size is similar to pempek telur kecil, but filled with minced young papaya instead.
fish-skin pempek, the dough is mixed with minced fish skin, as the result it has stronger fishy aroma and darker color.
ball shaped pempek.
tofu sliced and filled with pempek dough.
It is stuffed with ebi, sweet kecap sauce and chilli sauce.
tofu wrapped inside pempek dough. Similar to pempek kapal selam, but egg
is replaced with tofu. Instead of served with cuko, it is served in shrimp
soup.
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Tekwan: chopped pempek fishcake soup with jicama, mushroom and fishballs.
Celimpungan: small pempek balls cooked in spicy coconut milk, served with
chilli and sprinkled with bawang goreng (fried shallots).
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Laksan: often referred to as Palembang style pempek in laksa soup, sliced
pempek fishcake served in coconut milk based soup.
omelette with mixture of sliced pempek fishcake, also served in kuah cuko.
