Hi,
So over the weekend I cooked chicken + potato salan, simple affair nothing serious but in enthusiasm put 5, 6 green chillies (in pieces) in it. Now the salan has become too much mirchi. I don’t want to throw it, so any suggestion on how to reduce the mirchiness?
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stir in some yogurt.
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Yes , yoghurt plus one tablespoon sugar. That should balance it out.
If you dont have water in it, add two cups water and adjust the salt. that will also increase the quantity of the gravy and reduce the spice element in it.
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There is already water in it, but I’ll try yoghurt first and if it doesn’t work then I’ll try sugar in it.
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do not put sugar or yogurt this will not remain Aloochicken anymore.I will not like to eat it. The only thing which can work and I have done it many times is to make another batch of same thing without adding any mirchain. Then add one part of this high mirchain batch in new batch a little at a time to the point of your liking. The rest you can freeze and do the same thing again after a few weeks when you feel like having aloochicken again.
The other trick is to make biryani out of it, again do not use all of this batch for this biryani.
Dry up this salan to the point where there is no water in it , boil plain rice separately then layer rice and this dried up salan and give it dum like biryani. Maza na aye to paisay wapis. Done this many a times too.
These tricks can be used for any cooking blunders or mistakes, too much salt , haldi , dhania , etc.
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dont listen to mirch, he’s clearly biased. 
you can add yogurt in aalu chicken, you wont even notice it unless he adds a lot. it only takes a couple of spoonfuls of dairy to take down the capsacin burn a notch.
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queer bhiaya I am telling from my own experience.
The trick is to keep the taste and texture of your original salan not to turn it into something which you did not plan for.
I have tried adding the yogurt , it does not work as intended and I do not like yogurt in anything which does not call for yogurt in the recipe. if adding yogurt worked then the raita will not have any zing to it.
queer seems to be south Indian, they love their yogurt and buttermilk.
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actually i agree with mirch’s strategy .. it will definitely work.
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i agree with mirch. ive tried the yogurt/sugar bit before and it doesnt work … just makes it sweet n spicy lol.
i usually end up making either extra masala minus the chilli … or turn the whole thing into another dish. ex … chicken qorma too spicy … removed cooked chicken pieces, added tomatoes and spinach to curry. add back meat and bhoonify after all liquid is dried up. that turned out pretty well.
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Mirch stole my advice 
I am not sure if he suggested that, but remove pieces of chicken and aaloo from the curry before mixing the bland version in it. You dont want to further cook the meat and potato.
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None of these folks has a clue. Deploy one or more of these strategies
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I normally turn something like this in a pseudo biryani.
Oh and manually remove the hari mirch.
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Lusi 
I would do the same , turn it into biryani. Rice would automatically reduce the spice element.. Plus biryani ki kiya baat hai , drooling …
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If it is masala, add water and make it into shorba. If not then easiest is to make biriyani, I do this if my Salan doesn’t taste right. Or else my mum would make more the same without mirch, which for me is just a lengthy process.
I would have yogurt with my Salan if I find it too spicy, I know of quite a few people who have yogurt with their roti n Salan. I definitely would not add sugar to it.
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Or make a pulao or tahari (chicken one though)
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Send the salan to me, mai khud uska kch kr lun ga 
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Can I share too pls 
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Guys and Ladies… I used yogurt (not in the salan but in seperate plate) and dipped my luqma before putting it in my mouth. It did reduce the mirchain. The other suggestions are good but I don’t have time to cook extra salan or make biryani. I only cook once on weekends.
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My mum says put atta in the salan if it gets too mirchain. I’ve yet to try it but wonder if it works.
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Mirch daa idea badda wadiya :k:
Turn it into sindhi biryani 