How To Do Away Extra Salt In Your Food

To be a cook is to experience different feelings, sometimes of a dish so impeccably good that you cannot wait for everyone and their aunties to try it and sometimes, it goes so awfully wrong that you have this urge to gulp down the entire pot because no one should be subject to that travesty. Such contrasting emotions are expected over food, because what everything boils down to is our constant need to feed ourselves. Now, in most of the cases of kitchen accidents, especially by people who are new to cooking, there are either of the three causes involved

• Adjustment of salt
• If the food is over-cooked or under-cooked
• And of course, the constant fear of the food getting burnt

Today, let us talk about the first issue, the problem that comes with adjusting just the right amount of salt in the food. If you have, by mistake, out in less salt than what is required, you are absolutely safe. Salt is very easily soluble and you can add it anytime. In fact, your guests can actually put in more salt over their individual servings according to their own taste. But the problem arises when you add too much of salt. Like it is said, too much of anything is not good, and it is extremely true in the case of salt. Not only is eating too much salt unhealthy, it makes the food taste so much bitter, sometimes to the point of being inedible. But do not panic, we have some damage control methods for you to follow if you realise that you have added too much salt in your food. Just follow the below tips.

If you taste and feel that you have added too much salt to the gravy, potatoes, our favourite vegetable of all time, can easily come to your rescue. All you have to do is boil some potatoes and then add it to the gravy. The boiled potatoes soak up the extra salt and balances your food.

Salt should always be balanced in food | Shutterstock

Well, in the case of extra salt, adding ghee is actually beneficial, as opposed to the age-old hindi idiom that means accelerating the issue. If you are having a problem with too much salt in any type of Indian food, all you have to do is add some ghee. It automatically creates a balance in the flavours.

Sweet as sugar

As cliché as that may sound, when there is too much salt, you need some sugar to create harmony. Likewise, if you think your dish is being spoilt by a little too much salt, add a pinch of sugar and see if that helps your case. Most of the times, adding a little sugar does help a lot.

So, if you are having trouble dealing with the aftermath of adding too much salt, you could make use of any of these tips and save your dish from becoming a disaster.