Did you add extra namak to a dish while cooking? No worries, balance it with these easy hacks

By Medha ChawlaThe amount of salt added to a dish can either make or break the overall taste. Hence, it is always advised to carefully sprinkle salt while cooking. While less salt in a dish can be managed easily by adding a little more of the ingredient, it becomes a problem when the salt is in excess. The situation, however, is pretty common. A lot of times we end up adding more salt than required to a dish, and eventually ruin the taste as well as all the efforts put in to prepare the dish.

Next time you find yourself in such a situation, do not fret. For, there are many ways you can balance excess salt in a dish. Wondering what are they? Read on!

Famous chef and the winner of MasterChef India Season 1 Pankaj Bhadouria recently shared a video on Instagram wherein she shared several ‘nuskhe’ to balance excess salt in food recipes. Watch the video here:

Tip 1For gravy items

If you want to minimise the flavour of salt in a gravy item or a dal, chef Pankaj Bhadouria suggests to reheat it in a pan and add small balls of kneaded dough. The kneaded atta (wheat) balls will absorb the excess salt. Take out the

Tip 2For dry food recipes

For dry vegetable recipes such as aloo-gobhi, one of the best ways to balance excess salt is to add lemon juice, chopped tomatoes or tomato puree. Another alternative, as suggested by chef Bhadouria, is to add curd.

Now, that was easy! Right?