Boh itek masen / Telor asen / Salted egg

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Delicious salty eggs are delicious deliciously made their own. The traditional way of using a mixture of salt with rubbing ash or red brick powder.

Making salted eggs can be in several ways. There are soaked in salt solution, flavor it with salt dough, and flavor it with salt dough and red ash / red brick powder. The last way is a traditional way that you can practice yourself at home. Here's how to make it.

1. Material

Prepare 10-30 quality duck eggs, 1.5 kg of rubbing ash or red brick powder, 0.5 kg of kitchen salt, and clean water.

1. Tools
   Also prepare plastic pails, sandpaper, pans, stirrers, and egg storage containers.

2. Process
   Prepare water in plastic bucket. Rinse all raw eggs. Can use a toothbrush to remove stains on the surface of the egg. After that, wipe and dry the eggs.

Gently rub the surface of the egg with sandpaper. The goal is that the pores of the eggs open and the mixture to marinate can seep into the egg.

In a separate pan, make a mixture of egg britters. Way, mix the ash / brick red powder with salt using a ratio of 1: 1. For example, 1 kg of ash rub with 1 kg of salt. Add water to this mixture and stir until it becomes like a paste.

Baluri eggs one by one with dough, about 1-2 mm thick.

Store eggs in a crock pot or plastic bucket for 15-20 days. The longer the storage time, the egg will be salty.

After the specified time, clean the salted egg from the mixture of the broth. Eggs ready to be processed further. Can be boiled or steamed.

1. Tips
   Make sure the eggs are of good quality, not cracked or not rotten. To find out, soak the eggs in the water. If it floats, it means the egg is old, should not be worn.

Some people soak the eggs in the tea solution after being cleansed from the mixture of the broth. Length of immersion approximately 8 days. This method aims to increase salty egg resistance up to 6 weeks. The use of tea leaf extract also makes the eggs light brown with a more delicious aroma.