Spicy tomato sauce is way too spicy, how do I tone it down?

arrabiata as a base for gazpacha

Karen Kesner Kulberg
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Nancy September 3, 2023
This sauce can still work in the gazpacho if you do the following:
• for the tomato amount in the soup recipe, use half your spicy sauce and half raw tomatoes (save the Arabist’s for another use).
• omit from the gazpacho any hot spicing - black pepper, pepper flakes or sauce, jalapeño chopped up
• dilute the spice level in the gazpacho by adding more raw veg and/or some crumbled dry bread.

If you’re reluctant to use the spicy sauce in the soup, use traditional ways to dilute the heat level - add dairy (like milk or cream), fat, carbs.

Good luck - either or both methods work well.
 
Nancy September 3, 2023
Auto incorrect. No Arabist. The hot sauce you named.
 
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