How do I "cool" down very spicy tortilla soup?

Question

Thought the recipe asked for a full can of chipolte peppers, of course it was only one. was able to remove most but is still to spicy for company.

Answer 1

Basically, there are two ways to reduce how spicy any soup is:

• Make more soup and dilute the spices
• Add more starch and/or dairy to the existing soup

However, in your case, where you added about 8X as many peppers as you should have, I'm not sure either avenue is practical; you would have to at least triple the volume of the soup to have an effect. I suggest starting over.