dish is too salty!

carolinosourus

oh dear, i wonder why that was?

Bongedone

Did you have milk or cream in it? Potato should not curdle anything.

Teresita_2

I have always used potatoes to help with over salting.

tessie_bear

i would have put some sliced potatoes in it and heated it up...should get rid of the saltiness

gillian62

Does anyone have any tips to reduce the saltiness in some soup I have made. It was made with some bacon in it, but it is very salty indeed.

Many thanks,
Gillian

Fruball

What sort of soup is it? and what is already in there?

What you can do is slice some potatoes, pop them in the soup and cook a while longer, then fish out the potato slices... they should absorb some salt.

maltesers_2

Add as many potatoes as necessary.

Bongedone

As others have said, potatoes do work. I've used them to reduce salt in curry before but ended up eating the potatoes as well as they made a nice addition.

Pink.

Hi gillian,

Depending on the type of soup, if I find it too salty I either add a potato as described above, or you can add tinned tomatoes, dilute it with milk or add natural yoghurt or creme fraiche.

These earlier threads may have more ideas:

Save my soup! Soup problems thread.

soup too salty

I'll add your thread to the first link later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

gillian62

It's definately the bacon in the soup that has made it so salty. Will put some potatoes in tonight, and then add creme fraiche when I am ready to eat it. Thank you.