No need for baking soda, this is a trick for tenderizing chicken meat so that the texture is soft and more tasty

TikTok/@mpasi_arlev

Chicken, which has a tough and dense texture, makes it dry and less palatable to consume.

Brilio.net - Chicken meat is often cooked as a side dish. The delicious taste makes this animal protein popular with many people. However, to produce delicious tasting chicken meat, make sure the texture is not tough.

Because an improper cooking process can make chicken meat too dense and tough when eaten . Not only for free-range and laying chickens, this also applies to broiler chickens or broiler chickens. In some cases, chicken's tough and dense texture makes it dry and less palatable to consume.

Even though delicious chicken meat definitely has a soft and tender texture. So to tenderize chicken meat, some people usually rely on special ingredients, such as baking soda. So, this chicken meat will be marinated with baking soda to make it even more tender.

But did you know, baking soda also has the potential to make chicken taste bitter, you know. Especially if the dose is too much. Therefore, you need to use other alternatives when you want to tenderize chicken meat.

Furthermore, a TikTok user @mpasi_arlev once shared a trick about tenderizing chicken meat easily. Well, the ingredients used don't make the chicken taste bitter. Even with this ingredient, the chicken meat will taste more delicious and tender, you know.

Reported by BrilioFood from TikTok @mpasi_arlev on Monday (5/2), the ingredient used to tenderize chicken meat is UHT milk. Then, to make the chicken taste even more delicious, he also added ground pepper. So, these two ingredients will be used to marinate the chicken before cooking.

For more details, prepare the chicken meat you want to cook. In the video, he uses four pieces of chicken thighs. So, so that the milk and pepper can be absorbed into the inside, split the chicken thigh meat (no need to break it off). Just split until the bones are visible.

photo: TikTok/@mpasi_arlev

After that, put the chicken thighs in an airtight container (thinwall. Then pour in 100-150 ml of UHT milk. Add enough ground pepper. Then stir and coat the entire surface of the chicken evenly with the milk and pepper.

photo: TikTok/@mpasi_arlev

If so, close the container and put it in the lower refrigerator (chiller). So, marinate the chicken for approximately 1 hour. That way, the chicken meat will become softer and softer. You can immediately cook this chicken meat with various other spices to make it even tastier.

photo: TikTok/@mpasi_arlev

Having been watched more than 43 thousand times, this video by TikTok user @mpasi_arlev immediately caught the attention of netizens. Who would have thought, many other TikTok users would be interested and grateful for gaining useful new knowledge. This was expressed directly through the video's comments column.

@mpasi_arlev Try it, guaranteed to be soft automatically #cooking tips #chickenempuk #tips original sound - mpasi_arlev

"Yes, that's right, it doesn't even take 1 hour, it's already soft, sis, if my child whines, I cook it straight away," said TikTok @utami_setiadji.

"Thanks for the tips kaaa," replied TikTok @marsidarmawan.

"What if there's no refrigerator?" asked the TikTok account @superstoreaini, to which the video uploader answered, "use a collerbox/styrofoam box for icegell, sis, put it in the container... so the chicken doesn't spoil."

Disclaimer: This translation from Bahasa Indonesia to English has been generated by Artificial Intelligence.