How to use baking soda to tenderize meat
- Baking Soda, also
known as bicarbonate of soda has been used in cooking and natural remedies
for thousands of years.
This versatile white powder has hundreds of different uses in the
kitchen and around the home.
kitchen and around the home.
- Baking soda can
be used to tenderize meat, making it easier to eat and have more
flavour. This works especially well
with beef steak, but also works with pork, veal and many other meat
products.
- To do this,
simply take your meat and add a thin coating of baking soda to each side.
Then sprinkle some coarse sea salt over. The salt helps the baking soda to
soften the proteins within the meat.
- Allow the meat to
rest for around 4 hours. The baking soda and salt mixture draws water out
of the proteins. Water that would have caused the steak to become chewy
and more difficult to eat.
- Rinse the steak
with cold water to remove the excess baking soda and salt, and then pat
dry with a paper towel.
You will notice that the meat has already become softer, and may
even break apart from its fat, so try to be gentle with this when handling.
even break apart from its fat, so try to be gentle with this when handling.
- Add your
favourite herbs and spices and cook the meat in your favourite way, we
love using a grill or a simple frying pan when cooking steak.
- Whilst the meat
is finished cooking, the natural fats marbled into the meat will be able
to gently fry the meat from the inside, giving it a richer and fuller
flavour.
The baking soda and salt mixture allowed some of the proteins to
break down, which makes the meat have a softer texture, and also makes it
easier to cook.
break down, which makes the meat have a softer texture, and also makes it
easier to cook.
- Baking Soda is a
secret ingredient used for tenderizing smaller cuts of meats in Chinese
restaurants and Asian cooking.
- Naturally fatty
meat can provide the body with a range of fat soluble vitamins and
nutrients which are excellent for your health. Try to use meat from grass
fed sources as these are the healthiest around.
- To learn more
about home remedies, and healthy nutrition please see our other videos.
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