Help! Added too much salt to tomato sauce

[SarahKC]

Can you please help me? By accident I added too much salt to a tomato sauce I was using to make lasagna. Any ideas?

[Uncle Bob]

Adding potatoes to a dish to remove salt is a Kitchen Myth... debunked long ago.It does not work. I'm somewhat surprised it still lingers...anyway....
The only way to make your tomato sauce less salty, and maintain it's original integrity is to make another batch with no salt and mix the two together.

[chef chicklet]

My advise too, make some more to dilute the mother batch, but then add some sugar (only a tsp) and red wine for acid.

[alkapal]

ditto on uncle bob and chef chicklet.

[SarahKC]

I tried potato and adding more tomatoes. Something worked (most likely latter, possible former).
Thanks!

[alkapal]

i've never had success with potatoes removing excess salt from a dish.

[sarah galvin]

I have also heard that you add a potato to absorb salt and then discard potato

[C. Hamster]

Potatoes don't magically absorb just the salt.

Potatoes absorb liquid, same as a sponge would. Same as just ladeling out some of the liquid. You are left with less liquid and exactly the same % of salt in the solution.

[burlgurl]

sometimes adding something like potatoes to the sauce will absorb some of the salt..just remove them after some time

[livetocook]

sugar may help. Add gradually and taste

[foiegras]

That was gonna be my recommendation. If you haven't cooked the noodles yet, you might cook them without salt. I normally cook pasta with quite a bit of salt, but tone it down when I'm using salted commercial ingredients, like when I make my version of "the blue box." I find this really helps the finished dish (if I can call it a dish, lol).