What to do if you mistakenly add extra salt while cooking? Balance it with these simple tricks

• There are numerous ways to counteract too much salt in a dish.
• Pankaj Bhadouria is a well-known chef and the winner of MasterChef India.
• This will lessen the salt flavour.

The amount of salt used in a meal has a significant impact on its flavour. As a result, it is always recommended to use salt sparingly when cooking. While a dish’s lack of salt can be quickly remedied by doubling the amount of the ingredient, an excessive amount of salt becomes problematic. The circumstance is, nonetheless, rather typical. A lot of the time, we wind up ruining a dish’s flavour and all our hard work in preparing it by adding more salt than is necessary.

Don’t worry the next time you find yourself in a similar circumstance. But there are numerous ways to counteract too much salt in a dish. Curious as to what they are? Continue reading!

Pankaj Bhadouria, a well-known chef and the winner of MasterChef India Season 1, recently posted a video on Instagram in which she discussed different “nuskhe” to counteract too much salt in recipes. Here is a link to the video:

 

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Tip 1: For dishes with gravy

Chef Pankaj Bhadouria advises reheating a gravy item or dal in a skillet while adding tiny balls of dough that have been previously worked. This will lessen the salt flavour. The extra salt will be absorbed by the kneaded atta (wheat) balls. Remove the

Tip 2: For recipes using dried foods

One of the greatest methods to counteract too much salt in dry vegetable recipes like aloo-gobhi is to add lemon juice, diced tomatoes, or tomato puree. Addition of curd is an additional option, as proposed by chef Bhadouria.

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