How to fix salty potatoes: boiled, fried or mashed

Potatoes are a versatile product that every housewife is familiar with. It contains protein, B vitamins, ascorbic and nicotinic acids, useful micro and macronutrients.

Potatoes are used to prepare a wide variety of dishes, which sometimes by accident or ignorance are over-salted. A culinary mistake can be corrected by adding water, vegetables, something sour, sweet, creamy or processed to the over-salted tubers.

What to do if you over-salt fried potatoes

The following steps are taken when over-salted fried potatoes:

1. Pour an egg-milk mixture over the dish, which balances the flavor.
2. In another pan, fry slices of tubers without seasoning, add to the over-salted dish.
3. Introduce an additional ingredient - unleavened mushrooms, the spongy structure of which plays the role of absorbent.
4. Add sour cream with chopped dill, parsley or unleavened minced chicken, turkey.
5. Reduce the saltiness by adding garlic shoots of green, onion in a volume larger than usual.
6. Diluted in water tomato paste or tomato juice is poured into a pan with potatoes, stew for about 5 minutes, the salty liquid drained. If the taste has changed slightly, the actions to save the dish repeat.
7. Cut a couple of medium-sized tubers into two pieces, put them to the sliced slices, after finishing cooking, remove them.

Useful to know! The taste of roasted potatoes will change for the better if you add sliced sweet peppers, young zucchini or eggplant to it.

How to fix an over-salted potato stew

Braised tubers are made to taste more pleasant by increasing the volume of the sauce at the expense of sour products, sugar and a couple of spoons of dry wine. Add sour cream, tomato puree or tomatoes, grated sour apples to the pot.

How to save over-salted mashed potatoes

Measures to save mashed potatoes:

Adding extra batch.

Boil potatoes without salt, send them under the press. Spoiled mashed potatoes are combined with unleavened, stirred. It is important that the potatoes cooked first remain hot.

Changing the color

To get a bright healthy dish, whipped boiled vegetables - carrots, pumpkin, zucchini, spinach, seaweed - are added to the over-salted mashed potatoes.

More butter

No time to cook an extra batch of tubers or vegetables - no problem. Melted butter (50 g) and half a glass of warm milk will fix the situation. After the introduction of these products, the dish becomes more lush and nutritious. The creamy taste of renewed potatoes masks the oversalt.

Using gravy with sour milk products

Prepare without salt sour cream sauce, dairy or with yogurt, serve with mashed potatoes.

Important to know! Adding sugar does not save the dish, but emphasizes the taste of salt.

How to remove excess salt from boiled potatoes

1. If the water in which the peeled tubers are boiled is over-salted, they are drained and continue cooking by filling the pot with water without seasoning.
2. Boiled potatoes are poured with water, brought to a boil and removed from the pot. Serve with greens, sliced fresh vegetables or unsalted salad.
3. Salt by stewing the slices of boiled tubers with sour cream or tomato sauce for 20 minutes under a closed lid.
4. Sour-sweet tomato sauce masks the taste of even highly salted potatoes. When making it, fry onion with carrots and sweet peppers, add chopped tomatoes or paste, and dilute with water. Cinnamon, hot pepper and nutmeg make this dish spicy.

What you can make from over-salted potatoes

If boiled, fried tubers could not be saved from over-salt, they are used as an ingredient in vinaigrettes, other salads and appetizers, vegetable stew.

Boiled potatoes or mashed potatoes are made:

1. Casserole with minced meat, eggs, cheese, spices. Prepare this dish and with mushrooms, chicken fillet, fish, tomatoes or eggplant.
2. Fillings for dumplings, pies, cakes. Potatoes are combined with mushrooms, cottage cheese, fried carrots, green and onion, dill, parsley.
3. Cutlets. Mashed potatoes are combined with spinach, fried onions, garlic. Add unsalted grated cheese, egg, lemon juice. Roll half-finished product in breadcrumbs before grilling.
4. Dumplings. Roll sausage dough (500 gr), flour (250 gr) and one egg, cut it into equal pieces and boil in plenty of boiling water. Serve ready dumplings with butter, onions or sauce.

Potato dough is used to make zrazy with cabbage, mushrooms, sweet dumplings with berries or pieces of fruit, rolls with vegetable fillings, and Ossetian pies.

When to salt potatoes

General recommendations

The moment of adding seasoning to potatoes depends on the type of salt, the method of cooking, the desired consistency of the product.

Popular rock salt is seasoned dishes at any stage of cooking. Fine-grained crystals are used in smaller quantities. Sea salt, like iodized salt, is enriched with additional minerals. These types of seasonings are added to the tubers 3 minutes before the end of cooking or after it, so that there is no extraneous flavor.

A culinary mistake is easier to prevent than to correct. To prevent over-salt, listen to the advice of cooks:

1. Salt bought for the first time is used with caution.
2. In order not to spoil the taste, dishes are tasted after adding seasonings, spices.
3. You can accurately assess the saltiness of cooked potatoes only after they have cooled.

Important! It is better to under-salt potatoes, because there is always a salt shaker on the table.

Peeled boiled

There are several options for adding seasoning to peeled tubers when boiling:

1. In cold water. If you salt the potatoes at the beginning of cooking, they will become watery.
2. After boiling. The vegetable will boil less than in the first case.
3. Five five minutes after boiling. The potato will not fall apart, remaining dense.
4. After boiling. Tubers retain their aroma, taste, if after cooking, drain the water, introduce butter, chopped fresh dill, salt into the pot. Cover the pot with a lid, shake the contents, leave for 5 minutes so that the salt has time to dissolve.
5. When serving, put it on the table. Boil potatoes without seasoning. Salt and oil are put on the table in a separate bowl.

Mashed potatoes

Potatoes, cut into mashed potatoes, professionals do not advise to cook at minimum or strong heat of the burner, salt in cold water, immediately after boiling or at the moment of kneading.

Delicious, tender mashed potatoes turn out if you add salt after 7-10 minutes after boiling, grind the tubers with a wooden pusher, not a blender, add warm milk, butter at room temperature.

Chopped potatoes.

Served as a separate dish, but more often added to salads, fillings for pies, pies. During cooking, potatoes are not salted to preserve the aroma, taste of the vegetable.

Fried potatoes

Potatoes seasoned with salt at the beginning of frying do not form a crispy crust, increasing cooking time. Slices, bars of tubers, salted at the last moment, remain unleavened inside.

The best option is to use the seasoning 15 minutes before the end of frying.

Stewed Potatoes.

The tubers are not salted separately, as they are stewed over low heat in a sauce that has already been seasoned. If 10 minutes before it is ready, add sodium chloride to taste.

Steamed Potatoes

Steamed tubers retain their flavor if they are seasoned with salt, ground black pepper when served. Young potatoes will be more flavorful if they are sent to the steamer with the skin on.

French fries

Pieces of tubers fully submerged in the fryer become waxy and unpalatable if they are salted during cooking. French fries are seasoned after they are removed from the oil.

If guided by the advice of professionals, to show imagination and ingenuity, a spoiled dish can be turned into a new one with a brighter taste.