????same as above!!!
2007-12-23 06:10:40 · 10 answers · asked by ervina 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Depends on how over salted it is. It it's really salty, I drain some of the liquid out of the soup, add water, and add more seasoning if necessary.
2007-12-23 06:18:06 · answer #1 · answered by candace b 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm copying this directly from Cook's Illustrated magazine, from their Recipe Rescue section:
If your food is too salty:
Add:
an Acid or Sweetener
such as:
Vinegar, lemon or lime juice, canned UNSALTED tomatoes, sugar, honey or maple syrup.........
They also have a side bar about :
"Potatoes to the Rescue?"
"Popular kitchen lore holds that a few chunks or slices of raw potato will absorb excess salt from an over seasoned soup or stew. Is this true? To find out, we over salted several pots of chicken stock to varying degrees , removed samples then added raw potatoes and simmered until they were tender. After discarding the potatoes, we held a blind taste test to see if we could discern any difference in the salt levels....We could not. To be sure, we tested the stocks with a sodium probe (obviously these folks are true food scientists!!) and found little difference. Common sense supports these results: A potato may soak up a small quantity of the salty liquid, but it is powerless to reduce the overall concentration of salt in the liquid."
That's from the pros, and I've been subscribing to Cook's Illustrated since it's first issue in 1995...........
Christopher
2007-12-23 06:23:39 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've heard with a little sugar. But I've never tried it. I'd add water and more ingredients first but no salt so I'd have twice as much soup
2007-12-23 06:15:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
add in 1 or 2 nos of freshly peeled potatoes and simmer the soup for another 5min.
2007-12-23 06:21:01 · answer #4 · answered by jon1705us 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Add some potatoes to absorb some of the salt.
2007-12-23 06:20:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
drain out some of the water (depending on the saltiness)....add more water n some potatoes...
2007-12-23 06:21:38 · answer #6 · answered by Sahithya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Add a dash of sugar and a squeeze of lemon juice.
2007-12-23 06:19:36 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put a couple of peeled potatoes in it , they will soak up some of the saltiness...then take them out after boiling for a while.
2007-12-23 06:14:41 · answer #8 · answered by th25tina 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Boil potatoes in it and throw away the potatoes.
2007-12-23 06:14:13 · answer #9 · answered by william a 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
add water and potatoes
2007-12-23 06:16:54 · answer #10 · answered by beautifuldolore4 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋