What do you do when too much salt was added to a recipe to save the meal?

Question

Made some chili and it is too salty and before we throw it out, wondered if there was anything we could do to save it as that is the only problem with this recipe.

Answer 1

Put in a peeled raw potatoe.

Answer 2

Depending on what the basic ingredient was. The reason being, that you can add an ingredient in that suits that meal and at the same time absorbs the salt.

For instance if it is soup, some add water.
Some add bread, or some make rice to compliment the meal.

Usually the asian dish are salty and therefore they compliment it with rice. asian as in india , srilanka , their food is very spicy.

saying all this, if your food is still satly and you are trying to save your meal because you dont believe in throwing food in trash. I think your health is more important, if its only you who is eating and if you add ingredients that means you have to keep the food for a few days , because it probably would be alot.

Salt is not good for your health, and it is always the best thing to eat the food the time you make it ready.

In airlines, when you cook the food once, you are not allowed to cook the food for the second time, because bacteria will grow on it. I am not sure what the reason is, but be careful.

Answer 3

A good way to utilize the salty batch of chilli is to make a second batch with no salt at all. Blend the two batches and freeze as much as needed to provide meals all winter long. Added beans may also help stretch the salt out a bit. Chilli is usually better when the flavors are allowed to blend for a bit anyway. You may have to re-spice when you thaw out servings. I have found the chilli or other spicy ingredients may loose some of their "punch" in the freezing process. Hope this helps!

Answer 4

I haven't tried this with chili but my suggestion is to put a couple raw potatoes into the meal and cook a bit more, maybe add a touch of water if it's getting too thick while simmering.

Potatoes are supposed to soak up the salt.

Answer 5

I don't know if this works for chili, I guess it does for most no-dry recipes, especially for soup. Take a medium size potato, peel it, cut it in halves and put it into the soup (or chili in this case). Cook again in medium-low heat, and the potato will absorb some of the extra salt. Hope this helps.

Answer 6

If it is something like stew or soup, add lots of chunks of raw potato and cook 10 minutes more. Potato absorbs salt. Then take the potato out. Or double the recipe, but don't add any more salt. Or do both. It has happened to everyone.

Answer 7

You could add a lot more of everything else! Some people add potatoes to leech salt out of food, but that might not work with chili unless you're not afraid to experiment.

Answer 8

we used to think that adding a raw cut up potato added to the soup would absorb much of the additional salt, but recent research has disproven this. Really the only way to diminish the salt is to add more of the other ingredients to the soup; in other words, add more of every ingredient except the salt.

Answer 9

Cook it with a potato or an apple in it.

Potato with chili would be acceptable add some water and the potato will thicken the chili.

Answer 10

Peel and cut up some potato's. Put it in the chili raw. Tonight, take out the potato's and enjoy the chili

Answer 11

Turn it on and throw a potatoe or two in the pot...it will absorb the Salt. Good luck. It works everytime. Most important remove the potatoe...before you eat up.