My homemade salsa is too hot! All it does it burn one's mouth for about 10 mins after the last bite. Help!!!

Answer 1

Make another batch or two with no peppers in it and mix with the first batch.

Answer 2

Are you removing the seeds from your peppers before you add them to the sauce? Most of a chile's heat is in the seeds and the membrane attached to them. If you leave them in, your salsa will be very hot!

To remove seeds, try this:
Cut your pepper in half lengthwise.

Hold it with a kitchen towel and scrape the seeds and membranes out with a spoon.

Avoid contact with your hands becuase it can leave a residue that will burn like the dickens if you touch your eyes or nose.

If you need to fix an already too-hot salsa, add more tomatoes and onions and other salsa ingredients until you've extended the batch enough to dilute the heat.

Answer 3

To make the salsa less hot or the mouth quit burning? For the mouth, bread or milk.

For the salsa, you'll just have to wait
till the next batch.
Trying to make it less hot would end up with ten gallons of salsa, and it would still be hot!

Next time, take the seeds out of the peppers. and if you already didn't put seeds in it, then instead of so many hot peppers, put bell peppers or mild chili peppers and onions in it.

Answer 4

The 'heat' could be caused by one or both factors:

1) the type of chili and/or
2) the chili seeds

So, if it's too hot for you, put fewer seeds into the salsa and/or use a chili that is not as hot. Usually the first option is the best, especially if you like the taste of the chili you are using.

Answer 5

What type of peppers are you using?

Try using a milder pepper & less of them and maybe less vinager and/or salt.

Use more tomatoes also.

Send me the ingredient list of what and how much you use and I will try to modify it so that it is not so hot!

My husband loves Salsa and I have to can up a bunch of it for him every season!

Answer 6

You think it to be hot because you have no habit of eating hot. Make a practice by eating daily and you will develop a taste for the hot. Burns are imaginary. They vanish after sometime

Answer 7

i agree--add some more tomatoes...unless you used A LOT of peppers, then you might have to just give it away to someone who can tolerate the heat from it! lol.
you should probably only used a little bit of jalepeno without the vein or seeds, some green and red bell pepper, and some mild yellow banana peppers. that should stay fairly mild.
good luck. :-)

Answer 8

add an equal volume of just diced canned tomatoes and diced onions. bring to a boil and then chill
(like, if you made cups, add 2 cups of canned diced tomatoes and some more chopped onions)
if it's still far too hot, repeat the process

Answer 9

Take it from me, I love salsa. If your adding halopino, you might want to switch to chili peppers instead.

Answer 10

I want some........I love hot food, especially salsa.

Add tomatoes and that should help.