Recipe: Chewy Fish Cracker (Keropok Lekor)

This is famous foods from Terengganu, Malaysia.
It is made from fish paste and sago that is deep fried. When you drive along the coastal roads of Terengganu, you will past by small villages who cook their own keropok lekor and sell them.

Below is the recipe that you can try.

Ingredients
# 1/2 kg fish (ikan parang or ikan kembong)
# 200g sago flour
# Salt to taste
# 50ml water
# Some ice-cubes


Method

Clean the fish and remove its intestines.

Chop off its head and tail, leaving the body intact.

Carefully, scrape off the fish meat; discard the bones.

Pound, chop or mince the meat finely, adding salt to taste.

Add some ice cubes and continue mincing the fish meat.

Add sago flour and water. Stir the mixture until it becomes a soft dough.

Roll the dough into a cylindrical shape. Make it like a sausage size.

Boil a potful of water. Drop the keropok lekor into the boiling water.

Wait for it to float and remove with a slotted spoon. Set aside to cool.

Then deep-fry in hot oil.

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