One way to tone down a spicy dish (soup, chili, etc.) is to add quartered potatoes to it and boil for a few minutes, then remove the potatoes before serving. The potatoes will remove some of the spice and also will work for dishes that are too salty.
Put some in a container and freeze it.
Half a tsp. of chili paste equals one tsp. of chili powder.
Enough to make a watery paste. What really matters is how much of the watery paste you add to the dish being cooked. Use cold water to make the paste, to prevent it thickening. Mix the paste, little by little, into the hot food to thicken the liquid. Be careful not to add too much corn starch paste, and watch the hot liquid to see how thick it becomes.
Add more liquid, if that doesn't work add more beans too. But too much white pepper has killed many a dish.
I use ground beef with no beans. Add whatever seasonings you like or normally use with chili. Use tomato paste and hot peppers and some onions and that's about it. Keys to a good sauce is make sure to get your ground beef really fine while cooking and any other ingredients like peppers and onion keep fine as well.
It is much leaner than beef. However, I have found that it works best when cooked into a dish, such as chili. It doesn't have enough fat to hold together well for hamburgers and such.
== == They'll make it hotter, but not necessairly spicier. The seeds are the hottest part of the chili pepper. If you want more flavor, not just more heat, add more chili powder and more garlic.
chili. Not many people like it because it is not chunky like traditional chili. I grew up eating Cincinnati style chili so much, I cannot stand eating traditional chili. Dixie Chili is the best, followed by Skyline, then Gold Star Chili (these are the 3 major chili parlors in Cincy).
Half a teaspoon.
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