It is never too late to reduce the heat from peppers in a chili sauce.
Chili sauce is not suitable for all palates. If you find your chili sauce too spicy, there are ways to offset the heat. Heat in a chili sauce comes from the capsaicin in the chili peppers. This chemical is not water soluble, so adding more water or drinking ice water will not help. Reduce the heat in your chili sauce using other methods, both in the sauce and as post-eating remedies.
Instructions
1. Cut out the white ribs from inside the peppers when preparing your sauce. Discard these before cooking; this is where most of the heat from the pepper is located, not in the seeds.
2. Squeeze the juice of half a lime into chili sauce and mix it in to offset some of the heat with the sweet-tangy flavor of the lime. Alternatively, pour crushed pineapple into the chili sauce until the flavor mellows. Optionally, add a spoonful of sugar to make the chili sauce milder. The sweet flavor mixed with the acid in the sauce will reduce the heat from the chili peppers in the sauce without diluting the taste.
3. Add more tomatoes and other nonspicy ingredients in your chili sauce mix to dilute the heat.
4. Serve the chili sauce mixed with an equal part of sour cream, yogurt or buttermilk. Alternatively, serve the chili sauce with milk to drink. The dairy products contain casein proteins that coat the capsaicin molecules, blocking the taste buds perceiving the heat.
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