This simple tip allows you to absorb excess salt in a dish when you have had a heavy hand!
If salt can act as a flavor enhancer to the great delight of our taste buds, too much salt in a dish can on the contrary alter its taste, to the point of making it inedible… When preparing a dish, who has never had a hand that is a little too heavy on the salt or shakes the salt shaker with a little too much force? Don’t panic, fortunately there is an unstoppable trick to rectify the situation, inherited from our grandmothers!
Whether it’s a rice or pasta dish or an overly salty stew, this miracle ingredient often found in the pantry will be your savior. We peel it then cut it and plunge it into the bottom of the overly salty dish. Its ultra-absorbent power acts like a sponge: it’s simply potato! The starch contained in the potato is in fact capable of soaking up the excess salt in your dish, until it becomes edible again!
Take two or three potatoes depending on how much your dish is too salty. Peel them and cut them into thick slices then add them raw to your preparation on the stove for around ten minutes and that’s it: your dish is already desalinated! Then remember to remove your potato from the dish before it disintegrates under the effect of the heat. If necessary, you can add a little water to the dish because the potato absorbs liquids.
If you don’t have a potato, stale bread, carrots and even a cork can do the trick. And if it is a question of saving a vegetable soup, a pumpkin soup or a puree that is too salty, coconut milk, natural yogurt, unsalted butter or crème fraîche also restore the balance for an even more delicious recipe. tasty. If you don’t want to add dairy, sometimes a little water can be enough to counteract the salt in your sauce, by simmering it over medium heat for a few minutes.
Finally, if you were grilling meat or fish and the salt shaker spilled into your pan, we cannot strongly advise you to simply remove the food and rinse it with tap water, then clean the pan and reheat it with a fatty substance to start cooking again. Finally, to correct the excess salt in a tomato sauce, adding a cube of sugar is very effective. So here you are with some good tips, neither seen nor known, to make up for all your overly salty dishes.