help... bolognaise is too spicy!!

Allegra

Sugar will also kill the hot spice right down - add a spoonful at a time (or add sweet chutney if out of neat sugar) until you can eat the curry.

meritaten

stir in a tablespoon of the yoghurt at a time until the curry gets to an acceptable level of heat.
I also find sugar or honey helps to tone down a curry! but it can end up too sweet - a dash of vinegar or soy sauce sorts that out without awakening the heat!

happy35

i was also going to recommend sugar if you didnt have yoghurt, I find sugar really enhances the taste in chicken tikka masala

inkie

Natural Yogurt will do the trick.

Nicki

Sugar and natural yoghurt did the trick thanks. It was still quite spicy but didn't bring me out in blisters. Swopped the glass of milk to drink with it for a cold beer though

krlyr

Adding lemon or lime juice is supposed to help too

rosie383

Apparently if you drink water, it actually does something to the oil in the chillis making the problem even worse. That's why milk works better.
I'm glad you were able to eat the curry. For future ref too, if it is really so hot that it's just inedible, portion it up and freeze it, then add a portion to future curries rather than adding heat to them. Better than chucking it.
Another thing that I have also done........ mix in as much yoghurt as is needed, then mix the curry through the rice, rather than serving separately. So it looks like a biryani. Then you dilute the heat, but it doesn't look like you are being mean with the amount of sauce.

mouseymousey99

Hello, As above really I have put way too much paprika in my soup :mad: ~ I know I read a remedy on here - but as is usual I can't find it.
If anyone knows please let me know - its my dinner tonight (with some soda bread I made) so if you could sort of urgently be ever so grateful....thank you..:T

somethingcorporate

"Too Much Spice Is Not So Nice
When something is so hot and spicy that all I taste is the heat, I am usually turned off. I like spice, but only as a background element, not a mask of the other flavors. If you make something that you think is just too spicy, add honey. Sweet counterbalances heat. If you are making a dish with chipotles, for example, and it’s just a bit too hot for your taste, add some honey, a bit at a time, until the heat balance is where you want it to be. This trick works well with red pepper flakes, cayenne and hot paprika. A little bit of honey goes a very long way.

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mouseymousey99

Thank you so much xxx