Batagor Komplit

After a loooong battle and a fierce hostility against the kitchen (haha), i got my power back :3
My best friend told me that she wanted to eat batagor, a kind of traditional snack from West Java. It is actually sliced tofu stuffed with fish dough, steamed, and then fried, served with spicy peanut sauce. The batagor itself is usually accompanied by fried pangsit or fried dumplings.

I thought that it would be good for a come back wasn't it? Hehe. Then there they were! Please welcome a bunch of happiness: Batagor Komplit :3

Batagor (top left picture) :
6 blocks of tofu (i used solid chinese tofu, @300gr. don't use japanese tofu, it's usually too smooth)
1 kg Pangasius Fish
15 sticks of young onion (junge ajuin, green onion, or leek)
8 cloves of garlic
400 gr tapioca flour
1 teaspoon chicken stock
salt, pepper, sugar
1 teaspoon sesame oil
2 eggs, whisk

for outer layer/coating before frying: 2 eggs, whisk together with salt and pepper

Cut tofu block into your desired size. Make a hole in crater shape, in the middle of your tofu blocks which would be cup for your fish dough. Put tofu cups aside and the remaining scraps will be used in the fish dough.
Blend fish, tofu scraps, and garlic in a food processor. While it's processing, chop young onion. Mix together all the ingredients with your processed fish until it's smooth and steady.

Put a spoonful of fish dough inside your tofu cups. Do this until your tofu cups are stuffed.
Steam your tofu cups for approximately 15 minutes. Take it out from steamer and let it cool.

Dip your steamed tofu into egg coating and deep-fry in preheated oil.

Fried Pangsit (top middle picture):
ready to fry dumpling skin
previous fish dough

You can make this fried pangsit in any shape, but i prefer to make it simple. Take a half spoonful of fish dough, wrap it with instant dumpling skin. Fry in preheated oil.

I made 50 pieces fried pangsit from the remaining fish dough, and still got bonus: Fried fish dough (bottom left picture). It's a big feast!! :)))

Batagor Soup (bottom middle picture) :
1 ltr water
half teaspoon chicken stock
4 cloves of garlic
salt, pepper, and sugar

Chop garlic and saute inside your saucepan. Add water and chicken stock, let it boil. Sprinkle salt, pepper, and sugar until it meets the taste. Serve with chopped young onion.

Peanut Sauce (far right picture):
300 gr peanut butter
6 cloves of garlic
6 sticks of red chili
4 sticks of cayenne/bird eye chili
50 gr solid palm sugar
4 teaspoon vinegar
salt and sugar

Saute red chili, bird eye chili, and garlic. Crush/cut them rough.
Boil on low heat: peanut butter, vinegar, palm sugar, and a glass of water. Stir in your sauteed chili. Sprinkle with salt and sugar until it meets your taste.

Serve with batagor, fried pangsit, steamed potato, boiled egg, and thick black soy sauce.
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Cakue

Yeah! You know, when you're expecting a baby normally you have a constant craving for a particular food. Now my heavenly food was this cakue.

I can tell you that it was not easy to make. Especially to make the dough. It was painful to wait them rise.
But anyway. Here we go.

300 gr of wheat flour (use the medium-protein type, or the type that usually used for bread dough)
a spoonful of baking powder
a half spoonful of baking soda
a half spoonful of dry yeast
salt to taste
200 ml water

Cakue sauce:
2 spoonful of tomato sauce
1 spoonful of chili sauce
1 clove of garlic, minced
1 teaspoon of lemon juice
a little bit of water, maybe a spoonful
(it would be nice if you add slices of young mango or pineapple into it)

Make cakue dough by mixing all of the ingredients. Knead the dough until it's smooth and do not stick on your palm. Cover your bowl with plastic sheet and wait it to rise approximately for 6 hours. No i'm not kidding, it is 6 HOURS. That was why i called it painful to wait :)))

After six hours, beat the dough to push the air out, and make cakue shape out of it. I took a spoonful of dough then flat it down. Then I took another spoonful of it, flat it down, and stacked it on the previous flat dough. So a ready-to-fry cakue will have two flat dough stick to each other. Fry them in preheated oil. Make sure the oil is hot.

For cakue sauce:
Stir together all of your ingredients until it gets a nice consistency. I like thick sauce, so i just add a very little amount of water.

TIPS:
Before you put your cakue dough into oil, stretch it a little bit. It will give you softer and fluffier texture of cakue.

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Egg Soup

I knoooowww, it looks ugly, jaaaa??

Believe me, this ugly looking soup is my mom's recipe and it is the best to overcome nausea and flatulence, and whenever you feel that you had no appetite. The key of this delicious soup are young onions and pepper. 

Oh, don't forget to eat it while it's hot.

Here goes the recipe!

3 glass of water

2 eggs, beat

a cup of oriental soybean noodle (bihun, if you know it)

2 cloves of garlic, crushed and minced. It'd be better if it comes in paste

2 sticks of young onion, minced

chicken stock powder

salt, pepper, and sugar

Heat your pot. Add a little oil.

Saute garlic for a moment until its fragrance comes out. Toss young onions in. 

Add water and let it boil, meanwhile, put your bihun in a bowl of hot water and let it tenders. When you have your water boiled, toss the bihun in.

Then here comes the most interesting part of this soup, that's gonna make this soup ugly :D
Pour your beaten eggs into your boiling water. The trick is, while you pouring the egg, keep on stirring the soup. It makes a kind of whirlpool in your pot and the egg will flow like thread following your vortex. 

Now add chicken stock, salt and sugar until it fits the taste. Don't forget to spice it with pepper, or chili powder if you like. 

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Ebi Furai

Hi everyone!
Looks like i've abandoned this blog, eh? :D Sorry, been busy with my pregnancy and had no guts to fight the urge of avoiding my own kitchen :)))) Well since my pregnancy gives me a major turn off to the kitchen, turns out that my recipes now would be far simpler and lazier than before. Hehehehe. Please enjoy it anyway ;)

This time i'd share the survival recipe for ebi furai or fried shrimp. It's a little bit from ebi tempura since ebi furai use dry flour for the coating. Here goes the dos.

250 gr shrimp, peeled and cleansed
4 spoonful of dry wheat flour
5 spoonful of bread crumbs
2 battered eggs
salt and pepper
oil for frying

Marinate your shrimps with salt and pepper, roll it into dry flour then dip it into battered egg. Coat it with dry bread crumbs and immediately fry your shrimp in a preheated cooking oil.

Seems to be a joke, it's too simple, i know :)) Enjoy it with tartar sauce and drops of fresh lemon juice :9
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