Without soaking in hot water, this is an effective trick to reduce the salty taste of anchovies using just 1 kitchen ingredient

YouTube/@Denny Gs

Even though it has been cooked using various spices, the salty taste of anchovies still dominates.

Brilio.net - Known for its savory taste and crunchy texture , anchovies are many people's favorites. This sea fish is usually cooked or processed into side dishes or accompaniments, such as making chili sauce, fried rice and other side dishes. Surely anchovy fans will always add rice if there is this side dish on the dinner table.

However, sometimes anchovies on the market have an excessively salty taste. As a result, even though it has been cooked using various spices, the salty taste of the anchovies still dominates.

So, to reduce the excess salty taste, a number of people have their own ways. Among them, soaking in hot water.

Apart from using hot water, apparently there are other ways that are no less practical to reduce the salty taste of salted fish. This other method was shared by YouTube user Denny Gs. Even without hot water, the result is that the fish is not too salty.

Quoted by BrilioFood from YouTube Denny Gs on Saturday (31/5), apparently the netizen only relies on one kitchen ingredient.

So, the kitchen ingredient used to reduce or even eliminate the salty taste of anchovies is salt. Apart from salt, he also uses additional ingredients, namely regular temperature water.

photo: YouTube/@Denny Gs

To do this, put the salted anchovies in a container. Then pour plain water until all the anchovies are submerged.

photo: YouTube/@Denny Gs

After that, add 1 spoonful of salt to the container containing the anchovies. Next, stir until the salt dissolves. Just soak the fish for 5 minutes.

photo: YouTube/@Denny Gs

So, when it's been 5 minutes, discard the salt soaking water. Then wash the anchovies using clean water. Repeat up to 3 times so that the anchovies are as clean as possible. Lastly, drain the anchovies. So, anchovies are ready or can be processed into various menus.

photo: YouTube/@Denny Gs

Even though they are soaked in salt, you don't need to worry that the anchovies will taste even saltier. Because soaking salted fish in salt will actually cause the excess salt content in the fish to dissolve and flow into the water (which has a low salt concentration). As a result, the fish tastes less salty.

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