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Salt can be your best friend in the kitchen. It enhances flavours taking a dish from drab to vibrant with just a pinch. But what do you do when you have seasoned a dish and you realize that you’ve added way too much salt? Relax and do not panic as Jumia Food, Nigeria’s no 1 food ordering platform, discusses how you can fix an oversalted dish.

Make more

The most obvious solution to an oversalted meal is to make more. If you have enough ingredients, double the recipe or make more by half, then mix it in with the salty batch until you’ve reached your desired flavour.

Add some dairy

If the dish allows it, add some dairy to it. This could be yoghurt, milk, cream or even coconut milk. The choice of dairy will depend on the dish at hand. Dairy helps cut both the spice and salt, without diluting the meal too much, and can also add a wonderful creaminess to your food

Raw potato

This is probably the oldest trick in the book. Just peel and chop one or two potatoes and add them to your dish. As the potato cooks, it’ll also absorb some of that saltiness. If it’s a meaty curry, you may want to cook the potato till it’s done and leave it in the curry too. Potatoes can also be subbed with rice, but that depends on what you are cooking.

Dilute with liquid

With this option, you just want to be careful not to dilute all the hard-earned flavours as well as the salt, so don’t reach straight for the water. Opt instead for unsalted broth, some unsalted diced tomatoes, or a splash of cream or wine. Make sure you are adding something that will add to the flavour and not dilute the dish.

Re-season, but not with salt

If you’ve mitigated the saltiness by adding liquids or other ingredients, you’ll likely need to bolster the other seasonings so that you don’t end up with a perfectly salted but otherwise underwhelming dish.

Source: How To Fix An Oversalted Meal

3rd FTC in a day.
I tried the "addition of milk" my brother the food caused constipation o" ma belle big small, but I've handled it. I'm a guy and I love cooking like crazy, it doesn't hurt to try out things like this because you stand to gain more knowledge and insight

Good addition!

GOOD thread.

Educative thread

Enlightening

Neva seen my maa overput salt, dat womans eyes have guage, even when another is cooking her salt specifications dont lie. What a generation

Did u realise how our mothers cook? They don't need to measure the salt, they just scoop it on their palms and apply it. And if u taste it, it will be okay. Our Indomie generation wives don't know that secret

Knowledgeable trends thanks for the information

post=68948154:
GOOD thread.

This is how this nigga jumps into all threads

How's life my man?

To the poster above... if you don't jump behind him on every thread, I wonder how you know, ubiquitous fellow!

Anyways,
We only reply business oriented mentions and sensible quotes.
So bye!

post=68948154:
GOOD thread.

For your barbecue?

Some people have issues with their taste buds so much so that they can't differeciate between a moderately and highly salted meal that why they add more salt to already cooked meal which is inimical to their health.Too much salt could lead to a chronic heart condition.

Baybii:


For your barbecue?

More like it, we do make such mistake with salt when we started some years ago and we use some of this remedy to tame it down.
But now, we can salt with our eyes closed.
No be God?!

israelmao:
Some people have issues with their taste boards so much so that they can't differeciate between a moderately and highly salted meal that why they add more salt to already cooked meal which is inimical to their health.Too much salt could lead to a chronic heart condition.

Taste buds bro.
I am sure that is a typo or an oversight
We make such mistakes sometimes too.
Just edit and move on.
Hugs!
Very Good comment by the way!

Best solution is putting the theory of osmosis and diffusion into use..... Wait for it......

Put water in a bigger bowl and sit the salty pot of food in the water for 10-15minutes...... Ensure the pot is still hot. Thank me later

post=68948296:
Taste buds bro. I am sure that is a typo or an oversight We make such mistakes sometimes too. Just edit and move on. Hugs! Very Good comment by the way!

Thanks for spotting that spelling error.

post=68948296:
Taste buds bro. I am sure that is a typo or an oversight We make such mistakes sometimes too. Just edit and move on. Hugs! Very Good comment by the way!

Thanks for spotting that spelling error.

israelmao:


Thanks for spotting that spelling error.

You are always welcome my brother.

nice

israelmao:


Thanks for spotting that spelling error.

You welcome, have a great weekend ahead sire.

Nice write up!

But the best solutions is to avoid getting a meal oversalted.

Does this solutions for oversalted meal apply to over pepperish meal?

There are some of us that prepare YORUBA stew or soup which is known for TOO MUCH PEPPER

How do one deppepperize it? Ignore my english

wink2015:
Nice write up!

But the best solutions is to avoid getting a meal oversalted.

Does this solutions for oversalted meal apply to over pepperish meal.

That's not solution, that's prevention. Oversalted meal is inevitable. It ll happen

this thread is for women na!!!

Ok

Why will you even over salt my food in the first place?
Didn't your mama teach you how to cook?
No no no! I don't take nonsense..so don't tell me that mistakes can happen!

Good

.

QuietHammer:

This is how this nigga jumps into all threads

How's life my man?

Is that your sister?

Nice thread. ..

Though not for international cooks like us.. ...

QuietHammer:

This is how this nigga jumps into all threads

How's life my man?

I don't think he sleeps. Just like Onila and one other girl like that.. those two rarely sleep or leave nairaland then