How to make fried Bakwan (junk food), Indonesian traditional food from Javanese

The fried bakwan

Bakwan is also our traditional food. The fried bakwan comes from java island, this is Javanese traditional food that really famous one. You could meet this food, when you were in small food stall in our country. Actually bakwan has many kinds, there were bakwan from vegetable, sweet corn, and only bakwan sprouts. 

 The fried bakwan made from some of vegetables that sliced thinly covered by flour. Usually this food consumed by Indonesian people to be additional side dish on the table. The taste of this food is delicious also. Because of the recipe is so simple a lot of people like to have this food.

Moreover, you could make fried bakwan by yourself. Because the recipes are very simple and practice, so you don’t find difficulty where you look for the ingredients. You just need to go in vegetable shop that provided vegetable.

There we go for making the fried bakwan. These are the ingredients that you should prepare before start to cook.

Ingredients:

100 grams of sprouts

50 grams of green pepper (sliced thinly)

100 grams of cabbage (sliced)

100 grams of carrots (cut in 1cm into stick)

3 leeks (sliced)

5 stalks of celery (sliced)

Cooking oil as you need to fry

The dough flour that you need to mix vegetables above:

150 grams of wheat flour

150 grams of rice flour

2 eggs                                                                            

water                

Seasoning that you should be mashed:

 10 grains of red onion

5 cloves of garlic

2 teaspoons of pepper

1-2 turmeric (burn)

Salt to taste

How to make the fried bakwan:

First, you should combine all of the vegetables ingredients and seasoning into bowl and mix it well, so it would become the bakwan dough.

Next, you need to heat the frying oil the fry it. (Remember, when you are frying the bakwan don’t in hurry just wait until the dough of bakwan fried and also don’t take a long time because it could make your bakwan burn).

Serve it when it is warm.