Instead of adding coconut milk, this is a trick to overcome salty rendang using 2 kitchen ingredients

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Let the rendang be enjoyed and not wasted later.

Brilio.net - Rendang is one of many people's favorite foods. In fact, not only in Indonesia, but also abroad. Yep, in 2017 CNN International named rendang as "The Most Delicious Food in the World".

Rendang is rich in spices and makes people want to try it again. The thick taste of spices combined with meat that melts in your mouth, with a faint spicy taste, who doesn't like rendang?

It's so popular that many people are interested in making their own rendang at home. Moreover, currently there are many rendang recipes scattered on social media. However, this does not mean that the results of the rendang preparation meet expectations. Some admitted that the rendang they prepared actually produced an annoying salty taste.

Some of the reasons are usually because they add too much salt to the rendang preparations. Second, it could be that the rendang cooking process takes too long or the temperature is too high, making the rendang taste salty. Third, the measurements of the other ingredients are not balanced so that the resulting rendang tends to taste salty.

Some people add cooked coconut milk to the salty rendang preparations. The neutral taste of coconut milk is considered capable of absorbing excess salt in dishes, so that the salty taste in dishes such as rendang is successfully removed.

Apart from coconut milk, it turns out there are other cooking ingredients that can absorb the salty taste. This is certainly suitable for those of you who don't really like coconut milk. These ingredients are none other than chilies and cassava potatoes.

This method was successfully practiced by the owner of the Tiktok account @rumahbibo. In one of his video uploads, he provided information that chilies or potatoes could be used to overcome the saltiness of rendang. The type of chili he uses is curly chili with a quantity of 5 to 8 pieces. Apart from chilies and potatoes or cassava, he said brown sugar can also be used to neutralize the salty taste in cooking.

photo: Tiktok/@rumahbibo

Steps you can take are preparing rendang that is being cooked and you want to remove the salty taste. Then, prepare the curly chili ingredients, along with potatoes or cassava. Then, wash the chilies and leave them whole.

Then, peel and wash the potatoes until clean. Then, cut the potatoes according to taste, usually people will cut them into cubes. Then, add it to the rendang that is being cooked. Cook the rendang, along with the chilies and potatoes until tender and feel the change in taste as the potatoes absorb the excess salt. Chilies and potatoes are known to absorb some of the salt from rendang.

So, what if the salty rendang has already turned black or is already cooked? The account owner shared a trick that if the rendang is already cooked, it's best to use other ingredients, namely adding brown sugar.

"But if the rendang is really an item, it's better to just give it brown sugar," he wrote, quoted by BrilioFood from TikTok @rumahbibo, Sunday (30/6).

photo: Tiktok/@rumahbibo

However, there are times when adding too much brown sugar will change the taste of the salty rendang to sweet. As felt by the owner of the TikTok account @queenpisces08, in the comments column he admitted that this trick was able to remove the salty taste of cooked rendang, but the rendang turned out to be sweet. Well, the solution is you can add more whole chilies to the rendang dish.

"Mostly brown sugar, you can add more whole chilies, sis, hihi," wrote the TikTok account @akunbibo.

Even so, in the comments column, many claim to have succeeded in eliminating the salty taste in rendang with this trick, you know. Apart from that, you can also use this trick when you want to remove the salty taste in other dishes such as chicken and others.

(brl/tin)