Creating Your Own Pempek? This is the trick ....

No need to spend lots of money to buy pempek. Now, you can make your own food at home with easy steps.

Pempek has a distinctive aroma and flavor. Processed pempek often made ​​from fish. However, you can replace it with shrimp or other ingredients to taste.


The processing process very easy. You simply prepare the corn starch and the main ingredient, then processed until the dough becomes soft.

"Raw foods are used, such as shrimp or fish fillet. This material is destroyed, but not be too smooth. Then, mix the corn starch and let the water while stirring," said Harwanto, Chef Resto Kampoeng Bangka when talking with Okezone in Bangka Culinary Festival 2012 on FX, Senayan, South Jakarta, Sunday (05/06/2012).

The next step pempek processed by boiling. Without boiling, pempek not be formed properly.

"The boiling process to finalize the dough. Once cooked, the dough can be directly consumed or can also be fried. The boiling process is also to strengthen the dough that has been set up earlier," he explained.

To determine the level of maturity at the time pempek boiled, Harwanto said, pretty easy.

"If it is ripe, pempek will rise to the surface. Water to boil the herbs do not need to be given, so it's no exaggeration," he concluded.