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Salt often rescues bland dishes. Adding too much salt can make food unbearable, however, leaving you scrambling to reverse a culinary disaster. This may happen when you misread a recipe or if the lid falls off the salt shaker over the pan. Salty flavors concentrate as liquid reduces in a sauce, so if you add more too soon, you end up with a super salty dish. Whatever the cause, choose a practical way to reduce the saltiness. I have the habit of sprinkling salt all over the dish using my fingers as this helps to gauge and also control how much salt goes into the dish and prevents you from adding too much salt.<\/span><\/p>\n Wash, peel the skin of a raw potato, cut it into 4 pieces and add to the gravy or dal. Let it remain in the dish for 10 minutes. Alternatively, you can also cook for a few minutes with the potatoes. The potato will absorb the excess salt from gravies or soups. Do not forget to discard the potatoes before serving.<\/span><\/p>\n For Indian gravies, adding 2-3 tbsp of yogurt or malai (fresh cream) helps to balance the excess salt.<\/span> Coconut milk can be added to gravies to balance the excess salt.<\/span> If the gravy is too salty, drain off the liquid, add fresh liquid and then adjust the seasoning as required.<\/span><\/p>\n Another quick fix is to add a little sugar to the soup.<\/span> Depending on the curry, you can add finely chopped tomatoes or tomato puree and cook for few more minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n Another option is to prepare another batch (without salt )of the same vegetable or any other vegetable that pairs well with the curry and mix both together. For example- if it is a potato curry, cook capsicum or peas separately without salt and mix it with the potato curry. Another example -If it is a brinjal or lady’s finger curry, you can cook potatoes (peeled and chopped) without salt and add it to the brinjal or lady’s finger curry. Then cook until both gets blended well. Adjust seasoning.<\/span><\/p>\n Tips<\/span> COURTESY.. http:\/\/www.padhuskitchen.com\/2014\/07\/tips-to-remove-excess-salt-in-food.html<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Salt often rescues bland dishes. Adding too much salt can make food unbearable, however, leaving you scrambling to reverse a culinary disaster. This may happen when you misread a recipe or if the lid falls off the salt shaker over the pan. Salty flavors concentrate as liquid reduces in a sauce, so if you add […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-household"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-4mj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 04:18:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Many beginners have problem in adding salt. Either they add less salt to the curry or gravy or add more of it. Adding too much salt not only makes the dish unpalatable but is also not good for our health.
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Today I am going to share with your tips on how to remove excess salt from a gravy or curry which I have gathered from my mom, friends and books.
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Before going to that I would like to tell you that adding less salt is always better as we can add it later. But if you add more salt, the food becomes unpalatable and at times difficult to repair. <\/p>\n
If it is an onion tomato based gravy, you can prepare more onion tomato gravy without salt and add to the dish. This will balance the excess salt in the dish\/cooked food.<\/span><\/p>\n
This tip comes from a friend of mine. Add a few small balls of chapati dough (kneaded)and boil the gravy or dal with it for 3-4 minutes. This helps to soak up the excess salt in soups and dal. Discard the balls after 10 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n
If you end up adding more salt to your vegetable curries, convert it into a gravy. Fry 2 onions until transparent, add 2 chopped tomatoes and cook until tomatoes become mushy. Prepare it without salt and then add it to the curry along with 1\/2 cup of water. Cook for 4-5 minutes until everything gets combined well.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u2022 Instead of pouring the salt directly into the dish, put it in a small bowl or your hand and sprinkling it into your meal a pinch at a time. This allows you to control how much salt goes in at one time and also prevents you from accidentally adding too much<\/span><\/p>\n