Cooking meat without odor and fragrant
Boiled meat is a familiar dish for us Vietnamese. Because this is a very easy-to-eat, nutritious dish. But not everyone knows how to cook delicious and odorless boiled meat.
Therefore, to cook delicious and odorless boiled meat, you should do the following steps to make the boiled meat more attractive and eliminate all chemical residues. First, wash the meat with diluted salt water to disinfect and reduce the smell of meat. First, you need to choose to buy the part of the meat with both flesh and fat to have delicious boiled meat. Shin, pork belly… usually taste better than pork loin, pork butt when boiled.
At the same time, when boiling the meat, you need to prepare some ingredients such as vinegar or lemon, 1 small piece of ginger, 1 dried onion, cotton thread or soft braid to make the boiled meat more flavorful.
How to cook delicious and attractive boiled meat
According to the experience of seasoned chefs, with shin, pork butt, you should use a thread to tie the meat or you can use a soft braid to tie the meat tightly before boiling. By tying the meat along the length of the meat, it will create a beautiful round piece of meat, and after boiling, you can slice it horizontally along the length of the meat. The tighter you tie the meat, the better to create a more beautiful meat shape.
If using a thread, it is best to choose a colorless white thread. With shin, you should tie it tightly before boiling so that when you slice the meat, it will have a more beautiful round shape. As for pork belly when boiling, you don’t need to tie it again.
How to boil meat twice to remove toxins
One of the ways for you to have delicious and odorless meat is to boil the meat twice. In the first time, put the meat in a pot, pour enough water and boil for 2-3 minutes. Then, add a few drops of vinegar or lemon juice into the pot to remove the odor and make the meat whiter. Next, pour out the boiled water, rinse the meat with warm water and prepare for the second boiling.
For the second boiling, prepare a pot of boiling water and add the meat, a few grains of salt, a few thin slices of ginger and a peeled dried onion. Boil the pot on low heat and continue to cook the meat until it is cooked through. When cooked, the meat will be pale and fragrant for you to enjoy.
Add salt, ginger, and onion
Salt helps distribute the boiling water evenly, ginger helps eliminate the odor, and onion enhances the delicious flavor of the boiled meat. To cook the meat, you should simmer the water on medium heat until cooked. To check, you can use a fork to poke the meat. If the meat still releases pink water, you should simmer for about 5 more minutes. If the meat is cooked, the fork will easily penetrate and no pink water will flow out.
After your dish of meat is evenly cooked from the inside out, you can scoop them out to let them cool before continuing to slice.