Shrimp Potato Cake (Perkedel Udang)

Since I was a kid, I have always liked this Indonesian dish called Perkedel. I remember back then, I always went to the kitchen and watched my nanny cooked. She would mash all the potatoes and spices/ingredients using Molcajete. Ohh and she would fry the potato before she mashed it all.

Since I was too lazy to fry my potato and tried to be more healthier, I decided to boil my potatoes instead.

Shrimp Potato Cake (Perkedel Udang)

Ingredients:

• 4 cloves of garlic
• 3 cloves of shallots
• corriander powder
• cumin powder
• salt
• pepper
• 20 Shrimps
• 3 Potato
• Cornstarch
• 2 eggs

How to Cook:

1. Chop garlic and shallot mincely
2. Peel the shrimp and put in a bowl. Chop the Shrimp really fine.
3. Put 1 tsp of cornstarch, garlic and shallot, salt and pepper with 1 tbs of water. Mix it all together with the shrimp.
4. In the meantime, boil the potato until its soft but not too mashy (for about 10 mins)
5. Mash the boiled potato and mix it with the shrimp evenly.
6. Sprinkle salt, pepper, corriander, and cumin and mix it again until everything is mixed evenly.
7. Next, shape the potato shrimp dough into a flat ball.
8. Beat the eggs and add a dash of salt and pepper.
9. Coat the dough with the eggs before putting into the fryer.
10. Fry for 3 minutes with heated oil until golden brown.
11. Voila!!! Nom..nommm...