Sunday, December 10, 2006

TIP: Revive a salty gravy

If your gravy becomes too salty, make a few small balls of atta (chappati dough) and put them in the gravy. Give 2-3 boils. Let them remain for some time in the curry. Before serving remove these balls which have absorbed the extra salt.

7 comments:

Prakash Mehrotra said...

Extremely helpful tip. I am just concerned as to how to avoid the dough getting dissolved in the curry itself!

Any thing more that we need to know here?

Pooja Bahal Kshetrapal said...

Have tried doing this and the if the atta balls are not left for too long they would not get dissolved.

Prakash Mehrotra said...

Pooja, I am not saying they will get dissolved as you have tried this and henc ethe tip. I am interested in knowing how to avoid them getting dissolved, because they will if it is not cooked aata. So should we put it in cold curry or boiling curry, etc.

Pooja Bahal Kshetrapal said...

Hi Prakash, u can add the atta balls and then immediately boil the curry which cook the atta so that it does not dissolve and at the same time absorb extra salt.

Prakash Mehrotra said...

Got it. Will save this tip for my unlucky day. I really dread a dish getting screwed because of excess salt.

Thanks for this valuable tip.

Vahbiz said...

This was the newest tip ever heard of. (Atleast for me) very innovative... would like to add a little older version and that is..

U can add a potato also in the gravy and then remove them at the end. This way the potato would absorb the salt from the gravy.

Also adding little sugar or milk depending on the gravy type would balance the taste of salt.

Prakash Mehrotra said...

Let me extend this further.

For daal and certain curries, adding a little lemon juice masks the excess salt.