Tips For Choosing Fresh Chicken Meat And How To Process It

Tips for choosing chicken meat and how to process it (doc. Pexels/Jeshots).

JAKARTA - To get a delicious chicken dish, the selection of chicken meat must be very much considered. It is highly recommended to choose fresh chicken meat.

Martin Praja, one of the Indonesian chefs celebrities, said that fresh chicken can be seen from its color. He advised not to choose chicken meat in excessive pink.

This is because fresh chicken meat usually has white, a little cream and red. Fresh chicken skin usually looks a little shiny and is not too dry or too wet.

"The overall fresh thing is that we can definitely see from the color first. The color, if it's really bright or pink, you have to be careful," said chef Martin Praja, when met in Kemang, Jakarta, written on Saturday, October 4, 2025.

Chef Martin also recommends choosing chicken meat with an aroma that is not pungent. Also pay attention to the texture of the chicken meat is not flexible.

"A breath that smells fresh is not that strong. Then, for texture whether he is slimy or not. Slimy is flexible, yes. If he is flexible, he must have passed the fresh age," he said.

Then, when going to process chicken meat, don't immediately cook it out of the freezer.

Frozen chicken meat should be disbursed first. If not, it will make the texture hard, affect the taste, to uneven maturity.

"The tip is to process chicken meat, not from a chiller or freezer, it will be cooked immediately," said chef Martin Praja.