Sempol is a snack made from a mixture of chicken or fish and flour. The dough has a delicious savory taste and a chewy texture that makes you want more. This snack is usually served with a skewer and fried until brown, so that the texture on the outside is crispy.
However, although sempol looks simple, making it at home can be a challenge. One of the main challenges is the very sticky dough. This sticky dough will make the molding process tend to be troublesome. Hands that are constantly sticky and dirty make many people reluctant to try making their own sempol.
Not infrequently, this sticky dough also causes the shape of the sempol to be less neat and difficult to cook evenly when fried. The difficulty in making sempol often makes people prefer to buy it rather than make it themselves. In fact, with a few tips and tricks , this challenge can be overcome. If you want to be more practical and fast, you can imitate the trick shared by Instagram user @wowculinary.
Through one of the uploaded videos, he admitted that he could print chicken sempol dough faster and more practically without making his hands sticky. Reported by BrilioFood from Instagram @wowculinary on Thursday (10/17), the first thing to do is prepare the sempol dough to be printed. Then boil water in a large pan. Don't forget to add water so that the sempol to be printed doesn't stick.
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Next, prepare a large plastic bag or piping bag. In the video, Instagram user @wowculinary uses a used flour packaging plastic bag that has had the top cut off and a hole made in the bottom. Now, put the sempol dough into the plastic bag until it is completely full. At this stage, don't forget to close the hole at the bottom of the plastic bag so that the dough doesn't leak.
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Once done, open the hole cover at the bottom of the plastic. Then press the plastic from the top and print this dough directly on the pan filled with hot water. Print the dough in a circle (don't break it) until the dough in the plastic runs out.
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After that, boil the dough until it solidifies and floats. If it floats, it means the dough is cooked. Now, you can immediately lift and drain the sempol. Then cool it first on a wide tray.
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Now, the cooked sempol can be cut into pieces. Then skewer the sempol using a toothpick or satay stick. That way, the sempol is ready to be fried when you want to eat it. How about it? So it's more practical and doesn't make your hands sticky, right? The video about this sempol printing trick has received more than 695 thousand views. Who would have thought, many other Instagram users were interested and also gave their responses directly in the comments column. Most of these netizens were amazed by the idea of printing sempol which tends to be practical. "Oh yes, that's right, it should be like this, it's not complicated to skewer it directly, if you skewer it directly when eating it's hard to pull it off, it sticks really well to the skewer," said Instagram @muziafr. "It's easier to fill it later, just cut it into pieces," wrote the Instagram account @wuulnnnd. "Very clever, you also use used flour plastic, clever," commented the Instagram account @awtorii.