5 Ways to Make Fail-Proof, Savory and Crispy Peanut Crackers for Breaking the Fast Dish

Kapanlagi.com - Peanut crackers are a familiar food in Indonesia. Made from dough with simple spices and various toppings, peanut crackers are often used as a favorite snack. In addition to snacks, peanut crackers are also very potential to be used as a dish for breaking the fast meal.

Although it's only a complement, peanut crackers can add a crispy and savory taste to your breaking the fast dish. Whatever your breaking the fast dish is, peanut crackers seem to be a suitable complement.

Usually, old-fashioned peanut crackers are made with peanuts as the topping. However, now peanut crackers have developed along with the increasing creativity of cooks. If you are interested in making peanut crackers for breaking the fast dish or just as a family snack, let's take a look at how to make peanut crackers as reported by brilio.net below.

1. How to Make Peanut Crisps

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Peanut crisps are a classic creation that has been enjoyed for a long time. Despite its old-fashioned nature, people still love it because of its truly savory and crispy taste. If you intend to make your own peanut crisps for breaking the fast, please follow the steps below.

Ingredients and seasonings:

- 250 gr peanuts, split in half

- 4 cloves of garlic

- 1 tbsp coriander seeds

- 500 gr rice flour

- 400 ml coconut milk

- 1 egg

- 3 pieces of kaffir lime leaves, thinly sliced

- Salt to taste

- Sufficient amount of cooking oil

Instructions:

- Crush the garlic and coriander seeds.

- Prepare a bowl, mix rice flour and the crushed seasonings.

- Add salt, egg, kaffir lime leaves, and coconut milk little by little.

- Heat the cooking oil.

- Take 1-1.5 tablespoons of the mixture and add 1 tbsp of peanuts to the spoon.

- Place the mixture on a hot pan, starting from the edge of the pan to form a thin layer.

- Fry over medium heat until golden brown.

- Remove from the pan and drain.

2. How to Make Peyek Shrimp Peanut

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Peyek peanuts and shrimp can actually be separated into two dishes with different toppings. However, by adding shrimp to the peanut peyek, it certainly makes the taste even more delicious. In addition, this mixed topping creation can add color to your iftar meal on the dining table.

Ingredients:

- 1/4 kg peanuts, chopped

- Dried shrimp according to taste

- 500 gr rice flour

- 80 gr sago flour

- 65 ml coconut milk

- Lime leaves, remove the middle bone and thinly slice

- 1 chicken broth powder

- 500 ml water

Ground spices:

- 6 candlenuts

- 8 cloves of garlic

- 3 turmeric roots

- 1 tbsp coriander powder

How to make:

- Grind the spices that need to be ground, prepare a container, put in rice flour, coconut milk, ground spices, broth powder, sago flour, add water and mix well, then add lime leaves, mix again, then pour into the container.

- Divide into two parts.

- In one of them, put in peanuts, mix well and in the other container, put in dried shrimp, mix well.

- Heat oil in a pan, then pour the batter one by one on the edge of the pan.

- Fry until golden brown, remove and drain.

3. How to Make Anchovy Peanut Cracker

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In addition to being mixed with shrimp, peanut crackers are also very suitable to be mixed with anchovies. The addition of dried small fish to the dough will enhance the savory taste of the peanut crackers when they are cooked.

Doesn't this anchovy peanut cracker creation sound tempting as a dish for breaking the fast? Therefore, just follow the following recipe.

Ingredients:

- 200 gr rice flour

- 1 tbsp tapioca flour

- 1 egg

- 300 cc boiling water

- 6 finely sliced kaffir lime leaves

Complementary ingredients:

- A sufficient amount of peanuts cut into two halves and small anchovies.

Ground spices:

- 3 cloves of garlic

- 3 candlenuts

- 2 segments of lesser galangal

- 1 teaspoon of coriander seeds

- Salt, pepper, and powdered broth to taste

How to make:

- Mix all the ingredients and ground spices except for the anchovies and peanuts, stir until well blended. Adjust the taste.

- Take one ladle of the dough, add anchovies and peanuts, pour it on the edge of a pan that has been filled with hot oil.

- Pour some oil on the top of the cracker to make it separate from the pan.

- Fry until golden brown over low heat to ensure that the peanuts and anchovies are cooked.

- Remove and drain.

4. How to Make Green Bean Peyek

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Peyek kacang is not only made from peanuts, KLovers! Green beans can also be a suitable choice to be used as a topping in the flour mixture.

Its original hard texture will become crispy when cooked. When preparing iftar dishes at home, you can also make green bean peyek following the following recipe.

Ingredients:

- 120 gr green beans (soaked overnight)

- 200 gr rice flour

- 1 pack of Kara coconut milk

- 10 thinly sliced kaffir lime leaves

- Sufficient amount of water

- Salt and seasoning to taste

Ground spices:

- 4 cloves of garlic

- 1 tsp roasted coriander

- 2 segments of galangal

- 3 candlenuts

How to make:

- Mix rice flour, coconut milk, ground spices, kaffir lime leaves, and add sufficient amount of water.

- Stir the mixture until well blended and not lumpy, add salt and seasoning to taste, taste test.

- The mixture should not be too thick or too thin.

- Heat cooking oil over medium heat.

- Take a spoonful of the mixture and sprinkle with green beans on top.

- Pour it on the edge of the pan and drizzle the peyek with oil to make it easier to separate.

- Flip it only once, after it turns slightly golden brown, remove and drain.

5. How to Make Jogja-style Peanut Peyek

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Jogja-style peanut peyek has a different shape than usual peyek. While peyek is usually thin, Jogja-style peanut peyek is thick with clustered peanuts on top. This is because Jogja-style peanut peyek goes through two frying processes or intentionally made thick and stacked with toppings.

Although this peyek is rarely found outside Jogja, you can try making it yourself for iftar at home by following the following recipe.

Ingredients:

- Rice flour

- Arrowroot flour

- Coconut milk

- Chicken eggs

- Local peanuts

- Coconut oil

Seasonings:

- Garlic

- Coriander

- Salt

- Lime leaves

- Galangal

How to make:

- Beat the batter until it is well mixed.

- Fry using two frying pans, the first pan is used to make stacked peyek clusters, the second pan is used to cook the peyek.

- After frying the peyek in the second pan, let it cool for 24 hours. Actually, the peyek is already cooked but it still has a reddish brown color and does not last long (it can last for 50 days if it is good).

- After that, the peyek is ready to be served.

KLovers, those are some recipes for peanut peyek and various creative toppings. You can follow the simple and fail-proof recipe to produce crispy and savory peanut peyek for iftar. Enjoy trying it out.

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