What is Toknengeng?

Toknengeng is a very popular Philippine street food that is made of deep fried chicken eggs. Food similar to Tempura is easily confused with kwek-kwek, which monitors the same basic recipe, but instead uses quail eggs. The tokneng is easily made by immersing chicken eggs in red -ocean dough and frying until the coating becomes crispy. It is sold on mobile trolleys along with fish balls, octopuses and kwek-kwek.

Because the basic meal consists of only deep fried eggs that do not have much taste, the delicacy of the tokneng comes from the used sauce. Some prefer spicy acetic immersion, while others use sweet chili or fish ball sauce. Any sweet and rich sauce is well complemented by crunchy eggs. Toknengeng is a very cheap, but considerable bowl that is quite food.

also occasionally made with duck eggs, Tokneng is a good food for children who enjoy eating a dirt, fried egg for lunch. TOWhen it is packed as a lunch of food, the submergey sauce must be packed separately to ensure that the eggs remain crispy on the outside. It can be very easily prepared at home along with a tasty sauce.

Basic ingredients except eggs are corn flour, ordinary flour and oil. Cooking boils the eggs and remove the shells before immersing them in the dough. They mix some corn flour with salt, pepper and red food color to make the dough, and mix well until all lumps are dissolved. The cookbook annoys the shell eggs with batter and throws it into a wok with hot oil.

deeply fry the eggs covered with battering and puts them aside as they finish to release them on paper towels. Chefs can use skewers to pierce and drop eggs into hot oil. Instead of using food color, chefs can also use Annatto seed. They put these seeds that are brick JuneThe color, in small water, waiting for it to be water -red. They use this colored water to mix corn flour with salt and pepper.

To create a basic sauce, chefs can use a combination of rice vinegar, soy sauces, ketchup and brown sugar. They heat all the ingredients together until the sugar is thoroughly dissolved into the sauce. To create a more complex sauce, chefs can use a small onion, cucumber and several pieces of Siling Labuyo, very hot, little chili pepper. They cook these ingredients except cucumber along with vinegar and rock salt until they are well mixed. It serves tokenneng with sauce sauce decorated with finely chopped pieces of cucumber.