Pempek Sauce - Cuko pempek
Pempek Sauce - Cuko pempek

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Great recipe for Pempek Sauce - Cuko pempek. This is a sweet, sour, spicy vinegary sauce. Usually used to pour in pempek.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook pempek sauce - cuko pempek using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Pempek Sauce - Cuko pempek:
  1. Get 150 gr tamarind pulp (make a paste by adding with 500 lt water)
  2. Get 600 gr palm sugar/brown sugar
  3. Take 1 lt water
  4. Take 6 garlic mince (or 3 tsp)
  5. Get 20 thai chilli (reduce or dont use if you prefer not spicy)- blends
  6. Make ready 10 red chilli (reduce if you prefer) - blends
  7. Get 1 tbsp himalayan salt
  8. Take 3 tbsp dried shrimps (blends) - optional, you can buy in asian shop
  9. Make ready 250 ml or 1 cup sweet soya sauce (I used ABC brand, it's called kecap manis)
  10. Take optional: Vinegar and lemon. if you prefer a stronger taste. I used to add this, as it enhance the flavours

Saus cuko, kuah cuko, or just cuko, is the spicy sauce to accompany a bowl of pempek. It has a sweet, spicy, and sour note from tamarind, garlic, bird-eye chili, and coconut palm sugar. For a more deluxe version of saus cuko, you can add a tablespoon of dried tiny shrimps (Indonesian: ebi) and/or a tablespoon of Tianjin preserved vegetables. Pempek, mpek-mpek or empek-empek is a savoury Indonesian fishcake delicacy, made of fish and tapioca, from Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia.

Steps to make Pempek Sauce - Cuko pempek:
  1. Boil the 1 lt water and sugar until all dissolve. then sieve it. Use the liquid.
  2. In the pan, put the sugar liquid, and mixed with the rest of the ingredients (except for the dried shrimps). leave this in medium heat, and stirred untill disolve. Add the dried shrimp (if you decide to use this),Have a taste to make sure it taste as your preference. you can add a bit of lemon and vinegar too if you prefer. then turn the heat off.
  3. When cold, I like to shieve the sauce again. so it's clear, as I prefer it to be smooth. I would usually put this in glass jar. This is now ready to use or put in fridge. The taste will usually go stronger as it sit in fridge.

Pempek is served with rich sweet and sour sauce called kuah cuka or kuah cuko (lit. vinegar sauce), or just "cuko". Sometimes local people also eat the dish with yellow noodles and diced up cucumber to balance out the vinegar's sourness. The best thing about pempek is the sauce, made with palm sugar, tamarind, garlic, and Thai chilli. Making the sauce is simple enough, as long as you can find all the ingredients. Saus Cuko Pempek - Palembang Fish Cake Sauce.

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