Buying a salty piece of bacon is not a cheap pleasure. It is a completely different matter when you buy a fresh product and salt it yourself, relying on a family recipe or trying out a new way. And the fat was salted. It remains to wait for the set time and you can proceed to take the sample. In anticipation, we take out a piece from the container and, cutting into bars, try ...
Is there or fix?
Usually, salted lard after the described actions becomes a homemade delicacy that most of the family wants to try. But there are also incidents. Is the product so salty that it is impossible to bite it? What is the reason? What to do if the lard is too salted? Do you really have to get rid of a delicious snack?
No panic. It is important to understand some of the nuances. First, taste buds all have different sensitivities. Do not trust only yourself in this case. Treat a piece of this fat to someone from home. Secondly, do not rush to say that the product is spoiled: do not judge the taste by the first piece. In any case, it is more salty. Better cut off the next one and try it. Perhaps the fat will be very decent taste.
If the second taster confirms that you have gone too far with salt, then we will correct it. Below, we consider what to do if the fat is over-saturated and it is unpleasant to eat, and it is unsafe for health in this case.
Dry pickle
The easiest and most popular way of harvesting fat for future use is salting by pouring with salt. Pieces are cut to the skin. Slices of garlic and other spices are inserted into the slots. What to do in this case, having discovered that the bacon is salted? What to do in this situation?
Perhaps this is one of the most simple ways to fix the product. In this case, it is enough to remove such fat from the container and remove salt crystals from its surface. Get with a knife and to the slots in the product, remove them from there. After the described actions, the product will be ready for use and the taste will soften and improve much. Now it became clear what to do if the lard is overcrowded.
Peresol fat with meat layer
When a product with meat layers is involved in dry salting, it is more difficult to rectify the situation. However, you can put a small piece in a container with cold water, which you plan to add to the diet in the next three to four days. Free the remaining fat from the dry salt with a knife and wrap it in a tight plastic bag.
Salt the lard in brine: what to do
To begin, rinse the product in clean and always cold water. Thus, the surface salt layer is removed. Dry the product with a kitchen towel, cut a slice and try.
If the fat is overcrowded, what should I do when the previous intake did not help? You can try another way. Pour cold boiled water into a container. We place the washed grains of rice in a gauze bag. We send it into the water and then lay out the lard, cut into large pieces. After 6 hours, take it out. We eliminate drops of water by wiping it lightly with paper towels. We wrap the pieces in plastic wrap and send them to the freezer for several hours. Now you can eat lard. It has become less salty.
Cooking method
Did the methods described above not help? From a shock dose of salt, fat can be freed as follows. Boil water in a small saucepan. And boil a few pieces of a small size no longer than one to three minutes. Excess salt will be released into the broth. Remove the pan of fat from the stove and add a few cloves of garlic, after crushing it.
Cool the contents of the pan and place the lard in the resulting brine in the refrigerator for a day. Take out after 24 hours for tasting. Do not forget to remove excess moisture and store such a product in the freezer.
Smoked Lard Overflowed
What to do when, due to the taste of salt, the taste of smoked product is not captured? The simplest and most affordable action is to remove the skin from a piece of fat. Perhaps after that it will become less salty. It all depends on the dose used in the salting process. If possible, the meat layers on the lower side of the fat should be cut and used in the preparation of a dish. For example, you can fry potatoes with them without adding salt.
You can, as in previous versions, soak fat and soot again. But then the result is not the taste that we expect.
Extreme option
It happens that the fat spoiled by salt is simply impossible to use in the form in which it was supposed. Do not throw it away? You can skip such a product through a meat grinder and dilute it with fresh lard. Add garlic to the mass and mix all the ingredients. It is necessary to store the received forcemeat from fat in the freezer. You can use it during cooking according to your own tastes and needs. It’s good to fry potatoes for lunch with such bacon. Also, some housewives add it at the time of preparation of the roasting. Lard, scrolled through a meat grinder, can be adapted for cooking many dishes. A prudent mistress will find him use.