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If your food ends up too salty, you can add certain ingredients to the dish to cut the salty flavor. For example, raw potatoes will absorb excess salt as they cook in a salty soup or stew. While adding salt to foods, even desserts, can be crucial to bring out the flavor of each element in the dish, too much salt will make it difficult for your taste buds to pick up any other flavors.
How to Neutralize Salt in Food: 5 Ways to Fix Saltiness:
1. Add an acid. You can add lemon juice, lime juice, or apple cider vinegar to salty food to help neutralize the saltiness. A tomato product, such as tomato sauce or tomato paste, will also work since tomatoes are acidic.
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2. Add condiments. With casseroles, stews, chili, or other similar dishes, you can use condiments like sour cream, avocado, ricotta cheese, and others to fix salty food. The creaminess in these condiments helps to dilute the salt slightly and disperse the salt more evenly on your palate.
3. Add dairy. If it will complement the recipe—for example, a cream sauce—you can add more heavy cream, whole milk, or another type of dairy to neutralize the salty flavor in a dish. Dairy contains sugar, which helps to cut down the taste of salt. It coats the inside of your mouth, creating something of a barrier against the salt. Non-dairy milks, such as oat milk or coconut milk, can work similarly.
4. Add raw potatoes. One of the most common ways of fixing overly salty food is to add potatoes. This trick works well for soups, stews, and other similar dishes. Simply add a diced raw potato to the dish—as it cooks, the potato will absorb some of the liquid, including the extra salt.
5. Add sugar. Try incorporating a pinch of sugar (white sugar or brown sugar) or a sweetener like maple syrup to counteract saltiness. Sweet and salty is a classic flavor combination because of sugar’s ability to balance out the saltiness in food.
