You invite friends for dinner, cook your special items, and in the excitement and anticipation of the moment, add that extra pinch of salt, spoiling all your plans. Well, you don’t have to fear this scenario anymore. Here’s all you need to know about fixing that extra salt.
“Excess amount of salt in food items can be fixed by neutralizing them with salt-absorbing ingredients like acidic items (lemon juice, vinegar), vegetables (potato, leafy greens), dairy products, sugar etc.”
The saltiness in food can also be fixed by methods such as doubling the quantity and adding mild flavors or condiments to the recipe.
Salt, called “the white gold”, is no villain, if used in proper measure. In fact, from being a preservative and flavor enhancer to a nutrient and binder, salt has 14,000 uses across different fields. So, the key is to know how to prevent food from getting too salty and to know how to fix salty food if ever a salt mishap happens.
The methods to fix salty foods are actually methods that make use of food or cooking materials already available in your kitchen such as vinegar, bread crumbs, rice, sugar, vegetables, dairy products, condiments, etc. However, each of these ingredients has its own specific occasions of use, and here we explain all of them in detail to you.