Tempe Mendoan

Tempe is made from fermented soybeans. It is known as a nutritious food in Indonesia, contain high protein. Mendoan itself means fast deep fried. Tempe Mendoan is a kind of tempeh cooking that is made from thin tempeh, fried with flour so as to taste deliciously piquant. Tempe mendoan is from Banyumas,a city in Central Java, Indonesia.Tempe mendoan can be a snack or as a side dish. We can eat tempe mendoan with soy bean sauce and small chillies. We will serve tempe mendoan recipe below.

Ingredients :
1 block normal tempe sliced it very thinly and widely or 300 gr tempe mendoan ready to buy
2 pieces green onion sliced thinly
200 gr rice flour
400 gr wheat flour
125 ml water
cooking oil

Seasoning :
3 cloves of garlic
1 teaspoon coriander
1/4 teaspoon of white pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt

To cook Tempe Mendoan:
Grinding all seasoning. Mix rice flour and wheat flour. Add water, onion sliced and grinded seasoning. Stir it well.
Dip sliced tempe untill it covered by mix of liquid.
Warm the oil in a frying pan, and put it on the stove until hot. Put each piece of coated tempeh into hot oil.
Fry tempe until it boceome hardened.
Take out the tempe.
Serve with soy beans sauce and small chillies.

Pempek Palembang

Pempek was known as a special food from Palembang city, Indonesia. It was made from fish and flour mostly. There are many different of pempek. The biggest one is called "pempek kapal selam" which literally translates to "submarine-shaped pempek". A pempek kapal selam will always have one boiled egg inside it, which explains its larger size in relation to other types of pempek which are either long or rounded. And then, there is pempek lenjer. Itsshape is oval. And then, there are also pempek lenggang, pempek keriting etc. Different kind of pempek taste similar to others, they just came in different shapes and didn't contain boiled eggs.

Pempek is eaten together with a dark sauce called cuka or cuko (in Palembang language). Cuko is produced from adding brown sugar, chili pepper, garlic, vinegar, and salt into hot boiling water.

If you want to eat Pempek Palembang, you can find it in most city in Indonesia. Because even Pempek comes from Palembang, it has been be a favourite food of Indonesian people. Let't taste it! A Dream Food, Pempek Palembang!