5 Ways to Make Delicious Homemade Street Snack Cilung

Kapanlagi.com - Street snacks always have their own appeal to customers. Therefore, street snacks often go viral. One of them is cilung or aci gulung. The way to make cilung is actually quite simple. However, some people prefer to buy it because they believe that handmade products will taste different from homemade recipes.

However, this assumption is not entirely true. If you have the desire to cook it yourself, you can follow the instructions on the recipe for making cilung. By cooking it yourself, you can actually add other ingredients or create a new cilung recipe. Not only that, you can still maintain the chewy texture and delicious taste of cilung.

Basically, the way to make cilung is the same. You simply mix the basic ingredients of tapioca flour or sago flour with water, fry it, and roll it with or without filling. If you are curious about the complete recipe, please read the information about how to make cilung from various sources below.

1. Cilung Egg Recipe

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Serving: 15 skewers

Ingredients:

- 250 gr tapioca flour

- 10 tablespoons wheat flour

- 4 cloves of garlic, mashed

- Thinly sliced scallions

- Thinly sliced celery leaves from 2 stalks

- Sufficient amount of water

- Sufficient amount of salt

- Sufficient amount of powdered broth

- Sufficient amount of pepper

Instructions:

1. Boil water with mashed garlic.

2. Mix tapioca flour and wheat flour, scallions, celery leaves, salt, powdered broth, and pepper in a bowl.

3. Gradually add water to the bowl while stirring.

4. Knead the dough until smooth and no longer sticky.

5. Shape the dough into balls.

6. Prepare water with 3 tablespoons of cooking oil and wait for it to boil. Once boiling, cook the dough balls in the boiling water.

7. Once the dough floats, let it sit for 5 minutes and then remove.

8. Once cooled, skewer the tapioca balls with satay sticks.

9. Prepare 2 eggs, season with spices, and beat well.

10. Heat cooking oil.

11. Dip the skewered tapioca balls into the beaten eggs and fry until cooked.

12. If you want the tapioca balls to be covered with a lot of egg, repeat the process by dipping the tapioca balls back into the egg and frying again until cooked.

13. Cilung is ready to be served.

2. Sausage-filled Cilung Recipe

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Servings: 10 skewers

Ingredients:

- 10 tablespoons sago flour

- 2 eggs

- 1/2 teaspoon salt

- 1/2 teaspoon chicken broth powder

- 250 ml water

Topping:

- Sambal sauce

- Seasoning (optional)

Instructions:

1. Mix all the ingredients, then heat the non-stick pan and spread with blue band margarine. Add the mixture and top with the toppings, then roll using skewers.

2. Serve the Cilung while still hot. Enjoy, and good luck!

3. Abang-abang Style Cilung Recipe

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Servings: 4 people

Ingredients:

- 150 gr tapioca flour

- 1 egg

- 1 pc sausage

- 1 stalk celery

- Cooking oil

- 200 ml boiling water

- 1/2 tsp salt

- Sufficient amount of seasoning

Optional:

- Bird's eye chili

- ABC Sauce

Instructions:

1. Slice the stalk and leaves of celery into small pieces.

2. Put tapioca flour into a container, add sliced celery, salt, seasoning, and water. Mix well.

3. (Optional) If you want it spicy, add chopped chili to the cilung batter (step 2).

4. For the cilung filling, cut the sausage into flat shapes, then fry until dry. Drain.

5. Prepare a new container to beat the egg.

6. Crack the egg, then beat it with a spoon.

7. Heat a pan (with low heat) and prepare cooking oil.

8. Grease the pan with 1 tbsp of cooking oil, then add 4-5 tbsp of cilung batter to form a circle. Flatten the batter.

9. Add 1-2 tbsp of beaten egg in the middle of the cilung mixture, flatten it.

10. (Optional) Spread sauce on the surface of cilung, flatten it.

11. Add some pieces of sausage on top.

12. Once the egg and cilung mixture appear cooked (translucent instead of white), roll/fold the cilung using a fork.

13. Flip the cilung until it reaches the desired maturity.

14. Prepare a plate to store the cooked cilung. Then repeat steps 8-13 until the dough is finished.

4. Simple Cilung Recipe

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Servings: 2-3 people

Ingredients:

- 1 cup tapioca flour

- 1 cup water

- 1 egg

- Seasoning

- Oil/margarine (for greasing)

- Skewers

Instructions:

1. Put the flour and seasoning into a bowl, mix gently, then add the egg and water, mix again until well combined (first mix the flour and seasoning to avoid lumps).

2. Heat a frying pan, grease it with a little oil, wait until hot, then pour in the thin dough.

3. Roll it with skewers.

5. Spicy Fried Cilung Recipe

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Ingredients:

- 50 gr arrowroot flour

- 150 ml water

- 1 egg

- 2 tbsp chili sauce

- 1/2 tsp salt

- 1/2 tsp mushroom broth

- Some pepper

- Some chili flakes

- Some margarine

- Some skewers

Instructions:

1. Mix arrowroot flour, salt, pepper, mushroom broth, and chili flakes, stir until well combined.

2. Add water and chili sauce to the dry mixture, stir until there are no lumps.

3. In a separate bowl, beat the egg, then set aside.

4. Heat a non-stick pan, add margarine, wait until the pan is hot and the margarine melts.

5. Once the pan is hot, add 2 or 3 tablespoons of egg, wait until the egg is half cooked.

6. Pour 1 small spoonful of cilung batter onto the half-cooked egg, wait until the cilung is cooked, then roll it up with a skewer. Set aside the cilung on a plate.

7. Serve the cilung while still warm.

Those are some recipes and instructions on how to make homemade cilung, just like the ones sold by street vendors, that you can try and serve for your family.

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