Pindang refers both to a cooking technique (poaching fish or egg in a spiced sour broth) and to the resulting preserved product. As a technique, pindang broth is built from water, salt, tamarind, lemongrass, galangal, shallot, chilli, and salam leaf — a light, sour, aromatic poaching liquid that penetrates the protein, seasons it evenly, and the acidity partially denatures the surface proteins to firm the texture. The technique is distinct from the Sumatran pindang covered in the previous batches; this entry addresses the Central and East Javanese tradition specifically, where *pindang patin* (pindang of catfish) is the canonical expression, and the Palembang pindang tradition which is considered the national benchmark.
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