Your advice needed please...

[trubble]

I have, by accident, a sweet vegetable soup emergency. Roasted vegetables - yams, carrots and parsnips among others - so you can see how it has turned out to be so sweet that you could almost pass it off as a pudding.

I've tried to re-balance it using salt or pepper or even cheese.

I've worked my way through it, trying a new method each time, but nothing can take away it's extreme sweetness and I have one batch left.

Any tips?

Or should I just forget it and learn my lesson?

[riotgrrl]

What about spicing it up a bit? Curry powder, cumin, garam marsala, all that sort of stuff.

You could turn it into a kind of sweet & spicey curry thing?

Or sour it up with vinegar?

[swl]

I've been told to put sugar in things that have too many tomatos in, so maybe adding tomatos would help?

[Deleted]

you need to add the 3 M's: Mustard, Marmite and a spoonful of Melancholy.

[trubble]

;D I do appreciate the lateral thinking, fellas, really I do, and I don't want to sound racist but I knew I'd have to rely on a woman for sensible advice that I might actually follow.

I'm off to rummage around for something spicy.

[aubrey]

Ok, then. I won't tell you mine.

[everso]

Feb 12, 2010 17:13:25 GMT trubble said:

;D I do appreciate the lateral thinking, fellas, really I do, and I don't want to sound racist but I knew I'd have to rely on a woman for sensible advice that I might actually follow.

I'm off to rummage around for something spicy.

Actually, swl is probably not far wide of the mark. Tomato based sauces require a smidgen of sugar so if you skin and chop some cheap supermarket tomatoes and chuck them in that might help.

Personally, I'd use it as the base for another soup. Chop up a couple of potatoes, a couple of onions (not red onions as they can be sweet), half a dozen skinned cheap tomatoes, and use some more stock powder (I use Marigold as it's got a more natural flavour) and give it all a blast in the microwave till the veg are tender, then add it to the sweet soup pudding.

Have it several nights on the trot.

Alternatively the spice idea from Riot sounds good.

[Deleted]

i'd give it to the cats and be done with it. or keep it in a vat near your upstairs window and tip it out upon any hoardes of maurading invaders when they come. and they will come..

[aubrey]

You think the cats would eat it?

[everso]

No cat I've ever known has ever liked sweet things. Except custard.

[Deleted]

;D

[trubble]

Thank you for trying. The spice idea didn't really work, possibly because I lost patience with it and added a strange combination of Chinese 5 Spice, Worcester Sauce and Steak Seasoning. It tasted like a Korma - an overly sweet Korma.

Sugar is there to bring out the taste of tomatoes though, not negate something. I suspect I will get sweet tomato soup if I try swl's idea.

The sweetness will not abate and poisoning the neighbourhood cats is probably the best solution although there's not a lot left between all the tastings.

[everso]

The next time you go out for a walk, take it along and throw it over someone's fence.

[Alpha Hooligan]

All my cooking disasters go to Porton Down...they are quite appreciative of new ways to kill folk.




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