Shrimp Pempek

Pempek is a typical food from Palembang, South Sumatra, which is made from sago flour, mackerel fish or shrimp.

Ingredients

Steps

Peel and clean the shrimp, then wash them.
Shrimp that has been cleaned and washed
Then we grind it
The ones that have been ground, why not season them straight away because the seasoning ingredients haven't been made yet, guys, so I mixed the ingredients to make the sauce and at the same time peeled the garlic for the pempek seasoning, sorry if it's not clear
Prepare 100 g of tamarind, add 300 ml of water then
Stir well
Strain
Tamarind juice
Wash and soak the shrimp, soak for 15 minutes in hot water.
Peel the garlic and wash the chilies then
Cut the garlic into pieces, leaving two cloves to make pempek.
Prepare two cloves of garlic and
Puree
Heat the pan
Add the soaked shrimp. Now we fry it briefly.
Roast for 2-3 minutes
After roasting
Mix with the chilies and onions
Put in copper
The process of grinding spices: 10 g ebi, 7 cloves of garlic and 20 g chili
After the spices are ground
Add 150 g of coconut sugar
Add 300ml tamarind juice
Cover and cook for 15 minutes over low heat until all the coconut sugar has melted.
After 15 minutes
Add the ground spices
Stir and cook for 5 minutes
1/2 tsp salt
Prepare 1/4 cornstarch, add 1 tsp water so that the sauce is not too runny, you can skip the thickening flour, sorry. In this step, I didn't take a picture when making a little wet flour to thicken the sauce.
Stir and turn off the heat
Add all the pempek spices, 1 tsp flavoring, 1/2 tbsp salt and 1 tsp ground pepper.
Stir until evenly mixed
Prepare 300g sago or tapioca
Add the sago little by little then
Stir
After mixing well
Prepare 50 g of sago for brushing
Spread the sago on the kitchen board then take a spoonful of pempek mixture and
Roll and shape
Heat the water
After boiling, add the pempek one by one.
Boil until it floats for 20-25 minutes
Turn off the heat and
Lift and drain
Now we start with the fried ones, heat the pan
Add enough oil
We make round guy's
Let's start frying, fry until golden brown and the oil bubbles are reduced, you can remove it, guys. Don't forget to control the fire. This fry cooks quickly compared to the boiled ones which take a little longer, fry for 4-5 minutes.
Fried
The juko sauce is cold. We can put it in a bottle.
The prawn pempek can be enjoyed with sweet and sour and salty cuko sauce