How Do You Remedy your Failed Recipe?
By ronadelle
@ronadelle (1547)
Philippines
September 14, 2011 12:14pm CST
Today, I cooked chicken curry as my husband requested. And so since it's my first time to cook, I pretty knew the procedures and it went well, just that the curry powder was too much. My husband was the one teaching me this and that because he knows how to cook Chinese curry. And so, I did everything that he said. It was perfectly cooked but it was way too spicy! Oh! I was thinking of remedies on how to lighten up the spiciness yet it was still the same. We didn't have choice but to eat it. It's delicious and spicy! Haha. My husband loved it though coz he's used to eating spicy foods anyway. But I couldn't take it, I was sipping water after my every bite.
How do you remedy your failed recipe? Can you give me tips?
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11 responses
@ronadelle (1547)
• Philippines
14 Sep 11
Hello petersum! Thanks for the tip. I'll take note of that next time.
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
14 Sep 11
I guess you can add more milk with curry and sugar to lessen the spicy.
I do try to make some remedy when a recipe failed and it's not so easy and sometimes really ended bad.
So to avoid having failed recipe I add spicy and flavor gradually.
@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
15 Sep 11
hi sis. that's one thing i wanted to add to this discussion. some people who do not cook a lot of times usually ended to not being satisfied with their recipe because they are mostly careless in adding the spices and flavor.
@ronadelle (1547)
• Philippines
15 Sep 11
Thanks for your tips jaiho.
For Neil: Huhu. That's true. I rarely cook this kind of this so I think I am included to those people that you said. Learned some lesson today. Thanks!
@marguicha (222864)
• Chile
15 Sep 11
The next time (I hope there is not a next time!) scrub your piece of chicken with a knife or spoon so as to take away most of the sauce. Then make in a small pot a bit of sauce with no curry. Place your chicxcken there and stir. The amount left on the chicken will be enough for you.
@ronadelle (1547)
• Philippines
17 Sep 11
Did not know that! Thanks friend for the wonderful tip. ;)
@honeydimple (45)
• Philippines
15 Sep 11
I can relate to this, when i got married, the biggest fear i have was that i don't know how to cook since i didn't mind about it when i was single, the first time i tried was a mess, and i really did redo everything, but as i continue practicing my not so developed cooking ability, now my husband can eat and sometimes said that i'm much improved now. so i think the best way is to continue practice and try and try.
@ronadelle (1547)
• Philippines
15 Sep 11
That's really true. Yes, practice makes perfect! I'm happy that your husband is very supportive to you and appreciates you. ;) I love it!
@skysuccess (8858)
• Singapore
14 Sep 11
ronadelle,
Other than adding sugar, I believe you can add some milk or coconut milk to the curry.
You may want to consider another method of dipping your spicy chicken into a sauce plate of minced garlic and sesame oil. And instead of drinking water - suck on slices of fresh cucumber when you feel too hot.
In this way, it would not affect the taste of the dish and your enjoyment.
@ronadelle (1547)
• Philippines
15 Sep 11
Yes, I sliced some cucumber and that really helped ease the spiciness and glad that I still managed to finish my food with that. ;)
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
15 Sep 11
Oh dear failed recipe is what I hate most.
I am always helpless when it comes to that. I am not satisfied to just making remedies. I would rather just set aside that failed one and cook another. I don't even let my family eat my failed recipe.If the taste does not please me surely the food won't please them either even if I do some adjustments. My dogs anyway are always ready to eat whatever I give them.
I am always helpless when it comes to that. I am not satisfied to just making remedies. I would rather just set aside that failed one and cook another. I don't even let my family eat my failed recipe.If the taste does not please me surely the food won't please them either even if I do some adjustments. My dogs anyway are always ready to eat whatever I give them.@ronadelle (1547)
• Philippines
15 Sep 11
Haha! At least the dogs will still be loving it. I hope that we get less and less failed recipe next time. ;)
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
14 Sep 11
hi, although I do not know what you mean by "Chinese Curry", I presume you are making the Filipino chicken curry with coconut milk or "gata". Adding more coconut milk will lessen spiciness, presuming there's no more coconut milk because you used it up already, you can add cream or milk to kill spiciness and it won't contradict with the coconut milk cause it's used in the very same way as coconut milk in that kind of dish.
@ronadelle (1547)
• Philippines
14 Sep 11
Oh, thank you. Now I'm gonna take note of this. Chinese curry is like Filipino curry though. They also use milk just that they have their own curry powder.
@pennywise25 (321)
• Mexico
14 Sep 11
That's a very sad thing. YOu know, once I prepared noodles and I added too much salt that there was no way to pretend they were almost ok. What I did was to take them all to a wok and washed them throughly till I removed all the salt. It worked with them, I don't know how you could fix your curry though.
@ronadelle (1547)
• Philippines
14 Sep 11
Sad really, didn't know what to do. But good for you that you knew well how to do with the salty noodles!
