How to cook kwek-kwek

Ingredients for kwek-kwek:

• kwek-kwek: Quail eggs and oil for deep frying. Of course, you can do this with any kind of eggs, but think what you like more – egg itself or crispy batter around it. Also kwek-kwek from quail eggs is perfect for as one bite portions, rather that duck eggs will be more difficult to eat on the street.
• batter:
  • Flour, baking powder, vinegar, but you can use self rising flour without baking powder and vinegar – it will be easier
    
    It is very difficult to tell exact amount of all ingredients, because it is so related with the quality and type of them. Only I can tell – keep about 1% of salt to the weight of water+flour. Baking powder – 1/2 tsp per half litre of water and about 1 tsp of 4% vinegar.
  • Cold water
  • Salt
  • Turmeric, about 1tbsp per half litre of water.
• sauce:
  
  This is an idea of one of the traditional sauces, but you can make any of your choice.
  • Sugar – ½ cup
  • Ketchup – ½ cup
  • Vinegar – ½ cup
  • Soy sauce – ¼ cup
  • Black pepper – ½ tsp
  • Green onion – 2 stems
  • Garlic – 2-3 cloves
  • Chilli – to taste – really very difficult to advise how much fresh chilli you want to cop into the sauce to have perfect taste. But originally, this sauce should be medium spicy, not very hot.

In advance make hard boiled quail eggs. It is necessary to boil them 2-3 min and then chill down in cold running water. It is not very dangerous if you overcook them. When they are chilled, you can peel quail eggs and set aside.

Make sauce. It is better to make it in advance as well. In a small saucepan mix sugar, ketchup, vinegar and soy sauce. Gently bring to boil and add finely chopped chilli. Cook for 5-10 min and then chill down. Add chopped garlic milled black pepper and chopped green onion. Mix everything and set aside.

Prepare batter for deep frying. Into a cold water add flour, gently mixing with whisk. Add baking soda and salt. Batter mix should be salty on taste. Add turmeric and vinegar constantly whisking. At the end you should have pretty thick batter, something like double cream or even thicker. It should cover and stick well to anything.

Preheat oil for deep frying to 180° C (356° F)

Dig eggs into batter. Then catch batter covered eggs with spoon and gently through to the hot oil. More batter will go with egg – it is better.

Cook eggs about 3 min, until batter start to be crispy. Just before serving, you can reheat them for few second in the oil again – this is very important to do on the street to make this food more hygienic.

Catch every egg with bamboo stick, digg into the sauce and enjoy. And don’t forget to pay 4php for every egg :)

Description is very interesting, but for better understanding, watch our video, how to cook kwek-kwek below:





And try to do it at home!