How to fix a salty stew: 10 proven ways

Freshly cooked stew is an incredibly delicious and special dish, but what to do if your hand twitched and you over-salted it? - No problem! Saving the situation is easy.

How do you remove the extra salt?

There are several ways you can remedy the situation:

1. If you have a stew like goulash, you can save the situation by adding a bunch of fresh herbs, whether it's cilantro, parsley or dill, to the skillet. Any greens perfectly reveals the flavor of the meat and gives it an exquisite flavor.
2. Open the list of ingredients and add all the products again. Then the salt will be distributed over more of the dish and its flavor will blend perfectly with the stew.
3. Add the rice in the bag and simmer. This cereal is an excellent absorbent, it will absorb all the extra salt, leaving the dish with the right amount. Cooked rice can not be thrown away, but used as a side dish.
4. A very unusual option: take a handful of flour, put it in gauze and twist it. Dip the sack into the dish and boil it for a while. The flour will absorb the salt. You may have to add salt as well.
5. Another option, but more time-consuming, is to make a new stew. For example, you made a vegetable stew that you accidentally over-salted. So make a fish or meat stew without salt. Fish and meat go great with vegetables. Combine the two types of stew and voilà! The new dish is ready!
6. Make a side dish. Boil the potatoes and do not salt them. We add the cooked potatoes to the stew, mix it up, and you get an even heartier dish that you can feed the whole family.
7. Let's go back to the meat stew. If it is too salty, you can boil peas or buckwheat, well, whatever you like. Of course, we cook it without salt. As it cooks, add the garnish to the goulash and stir. We are saved. You don't have to throw the dish away!
8. There is also a very simple way: take 250 ml of water and add to the stew, put the lid on for 5 minutes, simmer, and then open the lid and put on high heat. The salt will evaporate with the liquid. Important: Do not add water to a fully cooked stew, as all the ingredients can simply boil over.
9. In any kind of stew you can add tomatoes. They will perfectly dilute the dish and tinge its flavor, as well as distribute the salt, taking a large share in itself.
10. And finally, to take the antonym of salty - sweet. A spoonful of sugar will save the dish if it is slightly over-salted.