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Brilio.net - Dried squid has many fans. One of them is housewives who often rely on dried squid to prepare into home menus. This dried squid is really delicious when cooked with various spices, such as sauted or made into a delicious spicy chili sauce.
Well, apparently when compared to fresh squid, the taste of dried squid tends to be saltier. Because dried squid has been processed by preserving it with salt. Even though it is still tasty and has a chewy texture, many people avoid the excessive salty taste of dried squid.
The strong saltiness makes this dried squid less tasty if cooked straight away. Even though it has been washed repeatedly before cooking, the salty taste of the squid remains high. Therefore, dried squid needs to be processed first using a special method to reduce its excessive salty taste.
Some people usually wrap dried squid in paper and then pour hot water over it. This method is believed to reduce the salty taste of dried squid. But actually, there are other ways that are no less merciful and fail-safe to reduce the salty taste, you know.
You can follow how to remove the salty taste from dried squid shared by YouTube user Dapur Masak.
Tricks to remove the salty taste of dried squid.Reported by BrilioFood from YouTube Dapur Cook on Sunday (9/6), it turns out that he only relied on the help of 1 kitchen ingredient in the form of salt.
photo: YouTube/Cook Kitchen
The trick to removing the salty taste of dried squid is quite easy. Only 15 minutes, guaranteed method to get rid of the salty taste and fishy smell of squid. The first step, wash the squid with clean water.
photo: YouTube/Cook Kitchen
Then place the squid in a container and prepare hot water to soak it. Then add 1 tablespoon of salt. Stir so that the water and salt are mixed evenly.
photo: YouTube/Cook Kitchen
After that, soak the squid in salt water for 15 minutes. Next, drain and wash again with clean water, then cut the squid into small pieces. Then wash the dried squid again.
Well, the squid is no longer too salty and is ready to be stir-fried, cooked in chili sauce, or prepared according to taste.
photo: YouTube/Cook Kitchen
This video on how to remove the salty taste from dried squid, which was uploaded by the Dapur Masak account, also received attention from other netizens. Having been watched more than 182 thousand times, this video also received various responses from netizens. Starting from saying thank you to sharing other tips.
"Thank you for the tips, brother. Very useful. Always successful," wrote the account @sokyesofficial866
"If I don't soak it in white paper for half an hour then wash it clean, I guarantee it will be as fresh as salted fish... if I've tried salt before, how come it's still salty..." said the account @ibuyulbawang6719
"For now, I just boil it for about 5 minutes, then leave it until the water is warm, then I rinse it using clean water, the squid is guaranteed to look like fresh squid, clean and white," concluded the account @sandimuhammadrusli4606
"Wouldn't the squid be saltier if you soak it in salt water," commented the account @emlianirisda7749
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