How to make Emping Melinjo (Cracker chips) Completely, and How to Fry it

Emping Melinjo (Cracker chips)

Emping is one of our traditional foods that have spread into many places and provinces. Emping come from Javanese. This food made from seeds of Gnetum gnemon (species of Gnetum) that lives in southeast asia
and western pacific ocean. We could find this plan in Asia such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and others. Usually the seeds use to make sour vegetable soup or cracker chips like Emping.

Melinjo Trees

We are greatly proud of our traditional foods, because as Indonesian people need a time to know how many traditional foods are available in Indonesia. Indonesia has many foods such as like this. So, We could create our traditional foods base on our place, region, province, and culture. That’s why we try to introduce our traditional food to you all. Indonesia is interesting.

Today, I am going to show you how to make cracker chips from Melinjo seeds.

Ingredients:

1 kilo of Melinjo seeds

Mortar

Spatula

How to make Emping:

The Fist step take the Melinjo seeds from the tree, so they are going to be like this picture.

Melinjo Seeds

 Then peel the leather from the seeds. 

Melinjo Seeds out of its leather

Next, Roast the melinjo on the frying pan but don't use frying oil.

after that, crashed the melinjo until flat and the leather clean from it. Like this picture.

Crashed Melinjos

Next, Dry the Melinjos that have been flat under the sun, wait until it becomes dry and hard.

Like in this picture

Dried Melinjos

Then the last step, fry the dry Melinjos into frying fan use frying oil. (wait until well done) then lift.
Serve it. ;)

You may add a little of salt to taste to make it more delicious. 

Emping Melinjo (Cracker chips)