3 Easy and Soft Ways to Make Pempek

Kapanlagi.com - Pempek is a typical food from Palembang, South Sumatra. This pempek is widely sold throughout Indonesia, so many people want to know how to make soft pempek at home without always buying it outside.

Pempek is made from fish or can also be made without fish. People from Palembang call pempek without fish as pempek dos or pempek gendum. Gendum itself means wheat flour.

People from Palembang believe that no matter how delicious the pempek is, if the vinegar or sauce for the pempek is not tasty, it will affect the taste of the pempek. Making pempek is not as difficult as making the sauce, so here are some easy and soft ways to make pempek from various sources.

1. Fish Pempek

How to make fish pempek (credit: doyanresep.com)

You know that fish pempek is the most famous pempek in all of Indonesia. The savory taste of fish makes this food liked by many people. In Palembang, pempek can be served anytime, whether it's for breakfast, lunch snack, or evening snack.

To find out how to make pempek, let's take a look.

Ingredients needed:

250 grams of ground fish

250 grams of sago

1 egg

enough salt

100 ml of water

How to make it:

Mix ground fish, water, and egg together until evenly mixed, then add enough salt.

Next, gradually add sago until it forms a dough.

Don't knead too much so that the pempek doesn't become hard.

After becoming a dough, the pempek can be shaped according to your preference, such as oblong or round.

Then put the pempek into heated water, but don't let it boil. If the water boils, you can reduce the heat.

Boil the pempek for about 7 minutes, or until the pempek floats to the surface.

Done, fish pempek is ready to be served.

That's how to make fish pempek easily at home and certainly healthy to serve to your family.

2. Pempek Without Fish

How to make pempek without fish (credit: instagram.com/resepbangkumis)

In addition to having fish pempek, in Palembang you can also make pempek without using fish. This is suitable for those of you who are allergic to fish but really want to eat pempek.

There are 2 types of names for pempek without fish, there are pempek dos and there are also those who call it pempek gendum. The name dos is taken because when fried it will produce a sound like dos dos, and the name gendum itself is taken from another name for wheat or flour.

How about KLovers, curious about how to make pempek dos or pempek gendum? Let's take a look right away.

Ingredients needed:

250 grams of flour

500 grams of sago

1 egg

salt to taste

350 ml hot water

How to make it:

stir flour and hot water until the flour looks like porridge, then if it has become porridge let the dough cool.

After the dough is cool, add sago little by little until the dough turns white and smooth.

then shape the smooth dough as you wish. You can also fill it with eggs or shrimp.

After it is formed, boil the pempek with heated water but do not let it boil. If it boils, you can reduce the heat.

Boil the pempek for about 5 minutes or until the pempek floats to the surface.

Cool the pempek first before you fry it and you can store the remaining pempek in the refrigerator to fry later.

Finished, the pempek is ready to be served.

That's how to make pempek without fish that is easy and can be practiced at home.

3. Using Fish Skin

How to make fish skin pempek (credit: instagram.com/globalfoodid)

In addition to pempek made with fish and without fish, Palembang pempek also includes those made from fish skin. Pempek made from fish skin is usually black in color and has a flat round shape.

Although it is black in color, pempek kulit also has many fans. Curious about how to make this pempek? Let's find out.

Ingredients needed:

250 grams of ground fish skin

150 grams of sago

2 eggs

Salt to taste

How to make it:

Mix the skin and eggs together, then add salt to taste.

After mixing, gradually add sago until it forms a dough.

Do not knead too much to prevent the pempek from becoming tough.

Shape the fish skin pempek into round and flat shapes.

Once shaped, fry the pempek in hot oil over low heat until cooked.

Once cooked, the pempek is ready to be served.

This method of making fish skin pempek can be a reference for those who want to try something different besides making fish pempek and pempek without fish at home.

Those are 3 easy ways to make pempek that can be practiced at home. Hopefully, this pempek recipe can be a reference for those at home. Enjoy trying it out.

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