Curry too hot...any solutions?

[jacquettalux]

I've just made a lentil dahl and accidentally added too much 'easy chilli.' I'm a bit of a wimp and it's really hot - I've just downed two pints of water!

Can I do anything to salvage the other three portions?!

Coconut milk?

Add more tomatoes/stock/coconut milk and lentils to water it down, maybe some honey too ?

Eat it with big dollops of natural yogurt.

Yes, definitely yoghurt. Or plain rice on the side.

When it's too spicy DD has either scoop of creme fraiche or once when we didn't have any she put a dollop of Philadelphia cream cheese which she said was delicious!

We had this yesterday.

Both of us ate as much as we could then agreed never to speak of the meal ever again.

A dollop of mayo swirled in

Do you have more lentils to make more and then mix them so that it is only half as strong.

Add coconut/natural yoghurt or cream - and drink milk with it when you eat it, water just makes it worse.

Add a tin of tomatoes.

Sugar

Yoghurt or coconut milk

Make a plain batch, mix the two together and freeze the portions.
You could go down the add yoghurt route but the chilli will still avenge you .... on the way out 🥵

Send it to me. I love very spicy food but DH doesn't. My curries are never hot enough for me.

Yogurt is the best, if not cream or coconut milk

Creme fraiche or natural yoghurt

Got to be something with fat in it to tone down a curry. Water/tomatoes/sugar/stock won't work.

Yoghurt (not 0%) Philadelphia, cream, creme fraiche, a big dollop of butter, anything fatty like that, will all help. Pick a couple of these to be on the safe side. Fat is the only antidote to chilli. Don't drink water - drink milk.

Full fat natural yoghurt.

Thanks so much everyone! I'll try some of these out.