Even experienced chefs can sometimes oversalt dishes. In this case, it is important not to panic, because almost any salted dish can be saved if you act correctly.
Instructions
Step 1
If you have oversalted the soup, do not dilute it with water in an attempt to save it. This can spoil the taste of the food. Take a small piece of refined sugar, put it in a regular spoon and dip it into the broth. As soon as the sugar lump begins to melt, remove the spoon from the broth and replace the sugar lump. This procedure can be repeated several times until the taste is corrected. The porous structure of refined sugar makes it an excellent absorbent that easily absorbs salt from the broth.
Step 2
Instead of refined sugar, you can use crackers or coarsely chopped raw potatoes. You just need to put these products into the soup and continue to cook it. Crackers need to be taken out in a few minutes (and, if necessary, put in new ones), and the potatoes can be left in the boiling broth for 10-15 minutes, but do not let it boil over, since pulling out overcooked potatoes that have fallen into pieces is not an easy and pleasant task. Special fabric bags can be used to avoid this.
Step 3
By the way, salted soup can be saved with rice in a cloth bag. It is enough to dip it into the broth and keep it there until the dish is ready, the rice remarkably draws salt out of the liquid.
Step 4
If you do not have the listed foods, but have honey or lemon, you can add them to the broth to reduce the saltiness. However, with very salty broths, this trick may not work.
Step 5
Over-salting meat can be corrected with unleavened flour sauces, mashed potatoes or sour cream. Salt is mainly distributed to the outer layers of muscle tissue, so unsalted homogeneous supplements can absorb a significant amount of salt. Over-salted minced meat for cutlets can be saved by adding some boiled unsalted rice or grated vegetables to it.
Step 6
Fish is a little more difficult to save than meat, since salt penetrates all layers of fillet or carcass. However, even in this situation, fresh sauces will help to level the salty. If you salted thawed or fresh fish before you cook it, just rinse it with cold water. Salted boiled fish can be poured with fresh boiling water and left to stand for about 5 minutes.
Step 7
Ordinary fresh tomatoes can extract salt from stews and other stews. They need to be finely chopped, then added to the dish and simmer for a few minutes.
Step 8
If the vegetables are salted during cooking, the situation can be corrected by pouring fresh boiling water over them and boiling for several minutes. But the salted raw vegetables from which you were going to make a salad can only be "diluted" with other ingredients.
