foto: Instagram/@melizah21
Brilio.net - When processing chicken meat , you must have found blood clots left between the bones. Feeling that the blood is clean, sometimes the chicken's blood appears again when the chicken is being fried.
Blood that remains on the chicken will cause an unpleasant odor, besides that it can also affect the quality of the taste of the fried chicken. Not only that, chicken blood is also not good for health because it acts as an intermediary for bacterial growth. Therefore, it is important to remove chicken blood until it is clean.
To overcome this, most people usually use lime in the process of removing blood remaining from chicken meat. It turns out, apart from lime, there are other kitchen ingredients that you can use to get rid of chicken blood, you know.
The owner of the Instagram account @melizah21 shares a trick for removing chicken blood using vinegar. The method is quite easy and only takes about 2 minutes.
"Fried chicken likes to bleed, just deal with it this way," he wrote, quoted by BrilioFood from Instagram @melizah21, Wednesday (10/7).
First, prepare the chicken you want to clean the blood from and put it in a container. Then, pour enough vinegar so that all the meat is submerged.
"Mix it with vinegar and let it sit for 2 to 5 minutes," he continued.
tricks to remove remaining chicken blood
Instagram/@melizah21
In this content, the video owner appears to use approximately 150 ml of vinegar for 500 grams of chicken meat. Stir gently, and let sit for 2 to 5 minutes. The goal is for the vinegar to react to stimulate blood out of the chicken.
tricks to remove remaining chicken blood
Instagram/@melizah21
After leaving it for 2 to 5 minutes, discard the vinegar water and rinse the chicken using running water until clean. After rinsing, strain the chicken meat to remove any remaining water from washing the chicken meat. Now, the chicken is ready to be cooked according to taste.
tricks to remove remaining chicken blood
Instagram/@melizah21
This content received a lot of responses from netizens. Many claim to have just discovered the trick. There are also those who ask about the taste effect on chicken after soaking in vinegar.
"Sis, how will the chicken taste after adding vinegar and soaking it in water like that?" comment on the Instagram account @ralinee_novi
Apart from being effective at removing blood from chicken, this trick also won't change the taste of the chicken, you know.
"Just be safe, sis," replied the owner of the Instagram account @melizah21.
Apart from that, the account owner also shared a simple marinated chicken karage recipe, after removing the blood from the chicken.
tricks to remove remaining chicken blood
Instagram/@melizah21
To do this, prepare 1 sachet of chicken marinade seasoning, 2 tablespoons of cornstarch, 2 tablespoons of water, 1/2 teaspoon of ground pepper, and 1 sachet of garlic powder. Mix all the spices with the chicken, and let sit for a moment so that the spices absorb into the chicken meat.
After that, fry over medium heat. Wait until it is cooked, and ready to be served with warm rice or as a snack. It's very easy, aren't you interested in trying it?
(brl/ola)