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Ekado

food
5
food
75 mins
fried
side dish
halal

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by Fang Catering
Published on 03 March 2022
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Ekado is a type of deep fried food with a crisp outer layer and soft juicy meat inside which covers a quail egg in the center.

The outer layer is using a beancurd skin to wrap the mixture of prawn and chicken meat combination which covers up a boiled quail egg, wrapped altogether and tied.

Ekado is a food originated from one of a famous Japanese style restaurant in Indonesia.It’s origin is believed to be referenced from chinese food called “Money bags”. As this food grew famous with the unique texture and delicious taste, it became popular and the name ‘ekado’ became a term of food in general.

Ekado

by Fang Catering
servings
5 people
prep time
30 mins
dish type
Fried
cook time
45 mins
course
Side dish
total time
75 mins

ingredients

  • For the ekado

    • 100 gramchicken thigh(minced)
    • 100 gramprawn(chopped)
    • 1 pcsegg
    • 70 gramcornstarch
    • 1 packsbeancurd skin(12 x 12 cm (x10 per pax))
    • 12 pcsquail egg(boiled)
    • 1 saltsalt
    • 0.5 tsppepper(grounded)
    • 0.5 tbspmushroom stock
    • 1 tbspsesame oil
    • 1 tbspfish sauce
    • 0.5 tbspcooking wine
    • 200 litercooking oil
    • 12 pcsmattress ropefor tying purposes. you can replace this with chives or seaweed(8-10cm, inedible)

instructions

Prepare the fillings

  1. Mix minced chicken thighs, chopped prawns, egg and sago flour.
  2. Add salt, pepper, mushroom stock, sesame oil, fish sauce and cooking wine to the mixed ingredients and mix well.

Making the Ekado

  1. Add 1 tbsp of mixed ingredients to the beancurd skin, make a little hole in the middle of the mixed ingredients and put boiled quail eggs in it.
  2. Wrap the beancurd skin, make it into a ball shape and tie it up with the mattress rope. Repeat until all ingredients are used up.
  3. Boil a big pot of water using steamer, once steamer is ready put the ekado into the steamer, close it and steam for around 30 mins.
  4. After 30 mins, take out the ekado from the steamer, take out the mattress rope and let it rest for around 15 minutes. If you don't want to cook it right away, can be frozen for 2 weeks, or simply put in refrigerator which could last for day and half.
  5. Heat oil in a pan over hight heat. Put in the ekado and deep fry it until it is slightly brown.

fried
side dish
halal
bento
delicious
deep fried
japanese