If your curry has excess salt or chilly taste, how to reduce it?

It’s a tedious job to prepare a dish of your favourite. It takes your time, apart from ingredients used. What will you do, you did everything but at the last moment finds that you put salt in excess or your dish is over-spicy because you added a little bit extra chilli powder. This simple mistake can fully ruin the taste of the dish. No need to worry or feel sad, you can reduce excess salt or chilly taste in your dish with some simple tricks. Here we go.

Important tips to reduce excess salt or chilly in your dish

1. If your gravy has excess salt, make a few small balls using wheat flour, add to the curry and boil well. You can remove those balls just before you serve the dish.

2. If your curry is excess oily or spicy, make a few small balls from bread pieces adding a little water and add it to the dish. Stir it and allow to rest for a while.  Bread pieces can absorb excess oil and spices.

3. You can also adjust excess salt and chilli flavour of your dish by adding coconut milk, coconut paste, fresh cream and curd. You need to choose the exact item which can enhance the taste of the dish and fits into the ingredients list. The final taste of the dish will definitely change, but it’s always better to serve a tasty dish rather than salty or excess pungent one.

4. Potato is a perfect combo for several vegetarian and non-vegetarian curries. So, you can adjust the excess chilli or salt taste of the dish by adding a few potato pieces and cooking it. You can also smash cooked potato and add to the curry. Not just potato, you can add any kind of vegetable which perfectly matches with other ingredients used in the curry.

5. While preparing gravy or sauce if you have added excess water, you can add bread crumbs to adjust the consistency. Corn flour powder or maida are other options. Mix it with a little water and add to the dish.

A few more kitchen tips to enhance the taste of your dish

1. To avoid smoky flavour of the dish, add a little more oil while cooking.

2. Always add hot water to the curry if you want to make it thin. Never add cold water because it affects the taste of the curry and will affect the cooking time of various ingredients used in the dish.

3. You should continue cooking the gravy of any curry until a thin layer of forms on the surface. Then only you will get the exact taste of the curry. You can also add a pinch of sugar as the final touch to balance the taste.