Is there a way of making my chilli less hot?

[virgiltracey]

If i tip in a tin of toms will that do it or will it just make it runny?

It'll make it runny but you can just let it simmer down again
You could also add less chilli

I think if you add some potato it cools it down??

If it's already made and too hot, you could serve it with sour cream. Otherwise use fewer chillis.

too late for the fewer chillis tip! Its fine for me and DH but I think the DSs will complain!

As Gwennie said, stir some sour cream through DSs' portions. Or transfer a couple of portions with as little of the sauce as possible and throw in a tin of chopped toms, simmer for a bit and that should be cooler for them. If it's still too hot add the sour cream to that too.

You can add a tin of tomatoes and some oats - they'll boil down into it and disappear so no-one will even know they're there but will thicken the sauce nicely. And serve with a dollop of sour cream, creme fraiche or natural yoghurt.

Right off for sour cream. what was the potato tip though itsjusta? Do you just throw in a lump to abosrb the heat or do you actually put cooked potato in it?

Oats? what just normal oats? do I have to blitz them into powder in the food processor or something?

If you boil a potato in with it, the potato will absorb a lot of the heat as it cooks. Ditto if something is too salty. Potatoes- food saviours!

As SilentBob suggests - hope it works!

add a tin of tomatoes and some sugar (always add sugar to tomato sauce). reduce sauce, serve with sour cream (we always use greek yogurt)

Probably too late now but for future reference...just normal oats, no need to blitz or anything as they just kind of melt into the sauce. Will give a slightly creamier texture to the sauce but the flavour is undetectable. Great way of making a dish stretch a little further too.