Brilio.net - Combro is a typical Indonesian food made from grated cassava. Then the grated cassava is mixed with grated coconut, filled with oncom, and shaped into rounds, then fried. Therefore, this food is called combro or oncom di jero, which means oncom inside.
This food is also known to have a savory and delicious taste. But unfortunately, when the combro is fried and cold, the texture usually becomes hard and no longer crunchy. This is what makes many people reluctant to make their own combro at home.
To overcome this, many people squeeze the cassava first. After investigating, squeezing cassava first can make the combro less hard after frying. However, this method is quite time consuming and tends to be complicated.
One of the netizens on the YouTube account Bersama Stfyani once shared a trick for making combro dough from grated cassava without having to squeeze it first. He admitted that the combro produced remained soft even though it was cold.
"Today I want to share how to make combro that is soft and doesn't fall apart easily when fried. The world's tastiest combro, even though it's cold it's still soft," he said, quoted by BrilioFood from YouTube Bersama Stfyani on Wednesday (20/3).
Tricks to make combro dough soft and stay soft.
photo: YouTube/With Stfyani
First of all, the YouTube user prepared the ingredients to make the oncom filling, starting from curly red chilies, green cayenne peppers, shallots and garlic. All these ingredients are then mashed. Also prepare 5 pieces of oncom, then crush them.
photo: YouTube/With Stfyani
Then, prepare a frying pan and add a little oil. Then stir-fry the ground spices with lime leaves, bay leaves, lemongrass and galangal. Also add salt, stock powder, granulated sugar and a little water. Cook until the chilies and spices are cooked.
After that, add the crushed oncom and stir while pressing so that it is more crushed (the oncom). If you want it to be spicier, you can also add sliced red cayenne pepper to the stir-fried combro filling. Stir, then taste test. If so, set aside the combro filling first.
photo: YouTube/With Stfyani
The next process is to mash the peeled cassava. The YouTube user used a chopper tool to smooth it. To do this, add 1 kg of cassava, then mash it. If so, add 3/4 of the grated coconut, then grind again with the chopper.
Then put the ground cassava and grated coconut in a container, add 1 tsp granulated sugar, 1 tsp salt, 1 tbsp margarine, 1 tbsp tapioca flour, 1 tbsp cornstarch, and 1 stalk of sliced spring onion. Stir all ingredients until evenly mixed.
photo: YouTube/With Stfyani
After that, take 1-2 tablespoons of cassava mixture, fill it with combro, then cover it with dough again and shape it into an oval shape. When forming the combro, you don't need to press too hard, just until the combro forms.
photo: YouTube/With Stfyani
Next, prepare a frying pan, then pour in quite a lot of oil so that the combro is completely submerged. Once the oil is hot, add the combro, then cook over medium low heat until the color is brown.
photo: YouTube/With Stfyani
"Well friends, this is the result of frying. It doesn't break easily and the taste is really soft," he said further.
The video uploaded by a YouTube user has been watched 62 thousand times, you know. So, are you interested in trying it?