Reducing spice in sauce [duplicate]
How do you make already prepared sauce less spicy? I must have used too many hot chili peppers or cooked them too long. Is there something to off set it from being so hot? The sauce is for General Tso's Chicken
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There is no robust way to do this in the general case, other than to create second batch with no additional hot peppers (or a reduced quantity), and combine them. Of course, then you will have twice as much product.
In some cases, adding a masking agent like sour cream or cheese, which tame the effect of the spiciness may help, but those methods would be very odd with a Chinese dish.
Depending on the degree to which you have over-spiced your sauce, simply using it more sparingly may help. Traditionally, Chinese food is not swimming in sauce in any case.
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Add the juice of half a lemon or lime, or a tablespoon or two of wine, vinegar, or tomato sauce, to your over-spiced dish. Or chop up some fresh tomato or pineapple and add no more than 1/4 cup at a time. Stir it in thoroughly, allowing the flavors to blend for 15-30 minutes. Then taste and adjust further if necessary.Soy Reduction (a.k.a. The Magic Sauce)
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