Mistakes happen in the kitchen, even with the best at the game. You could burn your food, overcook your food, or add excess salt to your food. The best part is that you can fix some of these mistakes.
In this piece, we’ll focus on one of the most common kitchen mistakes – adding excess salt to your food. While salt might have its advantages, we can’t overlook its disadvantages – it can damage your kidney, disrupt your digestive system, and cause hypertension; to mention a few.
Hence, the reason you need to take measures such as reducing your salt intake. The following are ways by which you can reduce salt in your food.
1. Add water
Depending on the kind of food you’re cooking, if you want to reduce salt in your food, you can add water to dilute it. How can you achieve this? Pour water in moderate quantities and taste at intervals till you get the result your desired result. Avoid pouring plenty of water at once so your meal doesn’t become soggy.
2. Add more ingredients
Your best bet sometimes could be to add more of the main ingredients for the meal that you’re cooking. This time, when you add them, you will not put in salt, that way you’ll have more ingredients to complement the excess salt in your food.
If you’re cooking rice, you can boil more and add it to the food. If it’s vegetables, you can add more to it. This is just to ensure that your food is cooked to taste.
3. Add potatoes
It is generally believed that if you dip potatoes in your salty dish, it will absorb the excess salt like a sponge absorbs water. However, it might not be as effective as the rest because it tends to be soft.
4. Add sweeteners
Sugar, honey, and other sweet ingredients like carrots can be added in moderate quantities to reduce salt in your food. Remember that they are sweeteners and you don’t want them overpowering your dish. The goal is to reduce saltiness.
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5. Balance unsalted food with salted ones
Another way to reduce salt in food is by pairing food with excess salt and another with none. For example, if you add too much salt to your stew, you can accompany it with rice or any other food without salt.
This will help to create a middle ground for you to enjoy your meal without having to bear its saltiness.
6. Add lemon
The acidic content in lemon can help to salvage the salty situation. Other ingredients can be used too, like tomatoes or vinegar to reduce salt in food.
7. Rinse food with water
Here’s another method that can be used to keep saltiness under wraps. However, not all meals can be handled like this. You can apply this method to meat, vegetables, fairly cooked rice, beans, yams, etc.
Above all, mistakes are bound to happen in the kitchen, and when they do? Don’t panic, because there’s a way out. So, next time, when you have excess salt in your food, try those methods out listed above. What other method do you know?
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