If I simmer salty pork meatballs in low sodium tomato juice or sauce would it decrease the saltiness in the meatball?
How to decrease the saltiness in pork meatballs
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Best Answer
The easiest way to make the taste of the meatball less salty is to make the tomato sauce a bit sweeter than you normally want it.
Another option is to make the sauce a bit spicy. Both sweetness and spiciness will lower your tongue's perception of saltiness.
Note that it will not make the meatballs noticeably less salty themselves. This only hides the saltiness, so if you are trying to lower the sodium due to dietary restrictions, this will not help in that regard.
If the meatball is so salty that the sweet/spicy sauce doesn't mask it, you can re-purpose the meatball in other ways. Some ideas include: