How to fix a salted salad: crab, olive, vegetable salad

It is frustrating when a culinary masterpiece, for the preparation of which a lot of time and effort is spent, refused to eat by family members or guests. Salads with salty products are often over-salted. In most cases, such situations are not hopeless. It is possible to get out of the situation without losses, if you use the advice of experienced hostesses, professional chefs.

How to fix an over-salted crab salad

To resuscitate the dish, it is not necessary to add rice. Boiled grits really absorb salt well, but there are doubts about the taste of the rescued salad.

If the dish is spoiled not severely, neutralize the seasoning with a few drops of lemon juice or 0.5 tsp. sugar.

Severe oversalted salad is corrected by rinsing the sliced food through a colander or sieve. Since the yolks are washed away with water, you will have to add eggs.

The dish with mayonnaise is corrected by increasing the volume by combining with the unsalted ingredients in the recipe. Balances the taste with fresh cucumbers, sweet canned corn, unleavened crab meat. If the sauce is not enough, the dish is flavored with sour cream.

How to take all the salt out of salty olive

Food additives are present in sausage, canned green peas, pickles and mayonnaise dressing. Experienced hostesses do not salt olivier at all or adjust the taste a couple of hours after cooking. If the mishap still happened, the oversalt is neutralized by additional slicing of unsalted components - chicken breast, boiled vegetables (carrots, potatoes), eggs.

In the absence of products, you can add a little sugar (1 tsp.) or prepare and combine with the spoiled salad an identical portion of Olivier, in which the pickles are replaced with fresh ones.

Unfilled olivier with excess salt is saved by thick sour cream instead of mayonnaise.

How to save fresh vegetable salad and vinaigrette

Sliced cucumbers, cabbage, carrots, onions are not afraid of short-term exposure to water. Fresh vegetables from over-salted dish (except juicy tomatoes) are transferred to a colander, rinse with boiling water at room temperature, give time for the liquid to drain. If the dish is poured with vegetable oil, the temperature of the water is increased and the salad is dressed again.

Another option to save the dish is to add more vegetables until the taste is balanced. Green lettuce leaves, dill, parsley, basil, green onions mask the salt well.

A salad made of cooked vegetables is more difficult to fix than a salad made of fresh vegetables, since it cannot be washed. The only way left is to add the ingredients. Beets take a long time to cook, it is easier to boil more carrots and potatoes, add onions, herbs. It helps to neutralize the over-salt with neutral-tasting green peas.

In urgent cases, when there is no time to correct the error or the products themselves, add sugar, mix thoroughly.

Saving other salads from salt

In home cooking has found its place, firmly entrenched in the dishes of foreign cuisine. On the holiday table it is not uncommon to see "Caesar" and Greek salad.

Caesar

If after cooking an over-salted "Caesar" leftover products, increase the volume of the dish by adding chicken fillets, cherry tomatoes, eggs, green salad. These ingredients pull some of the salt over themselves, improving the taste.

A substitute dressing reduces the saltiness. It will take olive oil, which will have to be poured and drained 2-3 times.

As a last resort, remove, place in a colander products that are not afraid of water. After rinsing, return it to its place.

Greek

To reduce the concentration of salt in the Greek salad add cucumbers, tomatoes, sweet peppers. Another way is to extract the feta cheese and chopped tomatoes, the remaining components of the dish are washed in boiling water.

There is another effective way, based on the properties of starchy products to absorb salt. Cut a couple of raw potatoes into large chunks, place them in the center of the Greek salad. After 10-15 minutes, the tubers are removed.

How not to overpot the dish: recommendations

In order for the dish to be pleasant to taste and over-salt did not harm your health, professionals advise:

1. Add seasonings less than indicated in the recipe.
2. Do not use crystals of unusual grinding.
3. Salt gradually with dry fingers, not from a spoon or salt shaker.
4. Taste the dish after thoroughly stirring and dissolving the crystals.
5. Do not add the seasoning if a salty salad dressing is provided.
6. Take into account the inclusion of foods with food additives in the recipe - cheese, pickles, bacon, olives, sausage.
7. Salt fresh vegetables before serving.

If in spite of the tips to fix the oversalt did not work, the ingredients of the dish are used to make stuffed pancakes, pies, vegetable soups.