When you're cooking at home, you may be able to get away with eyeballing the quantities of certain ingredients without worrying about the end result. Unfortunately hot ingredients, such as peppers or chili powder, can go from flavorful to overwhelmingly hot if you use even slightly more than called for in a recipe. Fortunately, If you add too much of a hot spice in a food dish, you can actually remove or counteract the hotness and save the dish.
Instructions
1. Slice one large potato into large pieces (about six to eight chunks) and drop it into a pot of an overly spicy dish. Set your stovetop to "low" and let the potato heat with the stew or chili for about 20 to 30 minutes so the potatoes can soak up the excess spiciness. Remove the potato chunks with a slotted spoon and discard.
2. Sprinkle the dish with 1 tbsp. of granulated sugar if it is still too spicy. Stir the sugar into the rest of the ingredients and heat over "low" until the sugar crystals dissolve. The sweetness will help take away some of the hotness from the spices.
3. Squeeze the juice from a piece of fresh citrus fruit directly onto an overly spicy dish or add diced tomatoes or another tomato-based product (such as salsa). The acid can directly counteract the spiciness and make the taste much milder.
4. Top the hot dish with a dollop of sour cream, a light layer of cheese or another dairy-based product (such as cream-based sauces or salad dressings). The cool dairy will mellow out the hot spices in the dish.
5. Serve the overly spicy food with milk or sweetened fruit juice to drink, which will help cool off your mouth. Avoid drinking carbonated drinks with hot foods--the carbonation may irritate your already sensitive mouth.
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