In the life of every housewife there were times when I had to fix a salted dish. Everything is easy to decide if it concerns, for example, pasta. But what to do if ready-made cutlets are salted? You should never panic, even if the trouble happened not with minced meat, but with a prepared dish.
To fix this error will help a few tips that are useful for both beginners and experienced hostesses.
If minced
Cutlets overcooked what to do? In the case when only minced meat is overcrowded, everything is very simple. You can add boiled rice to it and make meatballs. Rice, of course, is not worth salting when cooking.
Do not want meatballs? There is a solution in this case too: increase the number of minced meat ingredients. Add meat, potatoes, cabbage or bread. Products will not spoil the taste of cutlets, but they will easily solve the problem.
Ready cutlets overcooked
But what to do if the hostess cooked a full plate of meatballs, and only then realized that the meatballs were salted? How to fix? There is a way out in this case, and not one.
- Cutlets are sent to the pan. Add to them pre-peeled potatoes, butter and a little water. We put the greens there, seasonings available in the kitchen without salt and laurel foxes. Stew for a few minutes. As a result, you will get a very tasty dish. Potatoes will absorb excess salt, giving the necessary taste.
- The second way to save cutlets is no less tasty. It will help us in preparing the oven. We put cutlets on the baking pan, add milk sauce with spicy seasonings (without salt!). Better cook it yourself. Fill the cutlets with gravy and simmer at a temperature of 180 degrees. Everything will be ready in about 20 minutes. Instead of gravy, you can use milk or sour cream sauce with fresh herbs.
- If there is very little time to cook, serve a fresh side dish to the patties. It balances the taste of dishes.
- There are other options for saving dishes. Cut the finished meatballs into small pieces, add rice, tomato paste and herbs to them. Water needs to be poured three times more than rice. As a result, you will get a delicious pilaf. No one will guess that a completely different dish was originally conceived.
- In the event that the cutlets are overcooked, what the article will tell you. In addition to these options, there is one more. Make gravy similar to the one served in kindergarten. Make it easy. Take water or unsalted broth as a base (vegetable broth is also suitable). For 0.8 liters of broth, add 1 tablespoon of flour and approximately 30 grams of butter. Fry the flour in a pan. It should acquire a light brown tint. Only after that is butter added. Pour the broth gently, in small portions, into this mixture. Cook the sauce over low heat until thickened. If desired, add spices to your taste. Cutlets are poured with this gravy and heated in the oven for 10 minutes. The volume of gravy is designed for 4 medium-sized cutlets. If the cutlets are larger, the number of ingredients must be increased.
What to do if many meatballs have been cooked?
Consider one of the most frightening scenarios - not one or two dishes were cooked, but the patties were salted. What to do in this case? The main thing is not to despair! Put them in the freezer and freeze. After a while, you will have the opportunity to cook navy pasta or any other dish from them.
Defrosting salted cutlets
Defrosting cutlets is also necessary wisely. First, you can’t salt the side dish. Secondly, you should extinguish them in a pan, evaporating water under the lid. Stew cutlets only on low heat.
This method of defrosting will remove excess salt from the cutlets, turning them into a delicious dish.
When the hostess of the patties overcooked, what to do is not difficult to solve. There are many options to save the dish and delight loved ones with an unusual dinner.