Rempeyek

About This Recipe

Rempeyek are Indonesian peanut brittle wafers — a batter of flour, coconut milk, and spices is poured into thin discs, topped with peanuts, and deep-fried until golden and shattering-crisp. They're served as snacks, appetizers, or given as gifts. Each rempeyek is delicate, lacy, and impossibly crispy.

Ingredients

Serves 12

• 1 cupall-purpose flour
• 1/2 cupcoconut milk
• 1/2 cupwater
• 2 clovesgarlic, minced
• 1/2 tspturmeric
• 1/4 tspchili flakes
• 1 tspsalt
• 1 tspsugar
• 1 cuproasted peanuts
• oil for frying

Instructions

1. 1

   Make batter

   Whisk flour, coconut milk, water, garlic, turmeric, chili, salt, and sugar into a thin batter.

2. 2

   Fry

   Heat oil. Pour small amounts of batter into a ladle and fry, topside in oil, until golden.

3. 3

   Add peanuts

   When bubbles form, flip gently, scatter peanuts, and fry until crispy.

4. 4

   Drain

   Drain on paper towels. They'll crisp further as they cool.

Variations

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  Use sesame seeds instead of peanuts.

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  Add different spices.

Storage

Store in airtight container up to 1 week.

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