Recipe Cucur Manis (Cucur Kembong)

Cucur is traditional snack made from wheat flours. The snack are populary known in Malaysia and Indonesia. There are many type of Cucur such as cucur udang (prawn), cucur jagung (corn), cucur  ikan bilis (anchovy), cucur pisang (Banana), kue cucur (palm sugar cucur), cucur manis and many more.

Cucur kembong or manis is a bit different than most of cucur recipe. The process of making Cucur manis or kembong is very simple and uses only basic ingredients. Although it is cheap but the taste is tasty. It is perfect for afternoon snack (fritter) accompany by a glass of coffee or tea.  So, How to make Cucur Kembung or Manis? Let get started.....


Ingredients:

# 2 cups (280 gr) of Wheat Flour

# 2 cups (500 ml) of hot water

# 2-3 tbsp of sugar (depends your preference of sweetness)

# 1/2 tsp of salt

# Oil for frying

# Palm sugar (brown sugar) for topping -Optional-

# Cheese for topping -Optional-

# Condensed milk for topping -optional-


How To Make:

1. Prepare wheat flour, sugar and salt in a mixing bowl. Mix all the ingredients.

2. Boil water and then pour it to the mixing bowl. Remember, the keys is must be hot water couldn't be warm water. A warm water will made the texture cucur become hard.  After the hot water been pour,  mix it with all ingredients continually. Until it become like sticky dough.

3. Cut the dough and make it into small round shape for easy to fried. As you made it into small round shape likely put some oil in your both hands as the dough could be very sticky.

4. Prepare oil, turn on the fire and dough is ready to be fried. Fried until is light brown color.

5. Once cucur has been warm, you can add toppings on the tops. Such as shredded cheese, palm sugar /Brown sugar and condensed milk. The topping is optional to preference.

6. Cucur is ready to be serve. Prefect for your afternoon snack with a glass of tea or coffee.

Happy Cooking and Bon appetite ^-^.

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