Help! I messed up a huge pot of chili with too much garlic. How can I fix it?

Ok, i was trying a new recipe, but I apparently misread the garlic ingredient. I put two chopped cloves instead of one, and now this HUGE pot unbearably has too strong of a garlic taste. What can I do to diffuse it? It took me all day to make this chili and I refuse to just throw it out.

Also, please give me any suggestions for a “special touch” ingredient. Aside from the chili burning my nose hairs and lungs with garlic, I stil feel like i am missing a special touch of something. Do you use anything unusual?
Do potatoes work for garlic like they do for salt?
Rose G- i guess you would call it a head. I am not sure. I thought they were called cloves. But I chopped up two of the white round thingys that look like little onions I love garlic! But this pot is even insulting my taste buds.

Thanks for the responses! I’m learning
Oh my goodness I just realized what I did. Between Rose G’s response and the link Joey provided. The recipe called for two “cloves.” and i used TWO BULBS! Just awful. and i call myself a lawyer!?! Do much for due diligence (sigh).

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19 comments a “Help! I messed up a huge pot of chili with too much garlic. How can I fix it?”

I did the same thing. I used honey to lighten the garlic.

I dont think you can ever have to much garlic

there can never be too much garlic! unless your on a first date!

try adding some lemon juice.

I would try and save the pot by diluting it with more of all the same ingredients to dilute the garlic taste. You will probably wind up with two big pots of chili that way but just freeze the part you can’t eat right away..

divide the chill anh 1/4 beef and beef broth

ok i did the same thing before and thier is like no way to get it out unless someting ,but i just throw it away and than make a nother one if you want to but i hope this will help.

I would suggest adding some more ingredients. Like maybe some more tomatos, or some tomato paste. But I am not sure how to get rid of the strong garlic taste other then adding some more stuff.
For my “special touch” I like to use a little bit of beer and a pinch of red pepper flakes

throw it out!!!

TOO much garlic?
Pehaps I didn’t hear you right………haha

I’d try the potato trick. I know it works for salt……give it a shot!

Try this site under the Q&A about garlic:

i’d recommend chucking in some fresh tomatoes and a bit of extra oregano or whatever herbs you used to flavour that thing. but since you mentioned potatoes, try that too, it sounds like a good solution.

You added one extra clove or one extra head of garlic? One extra clove isn’t enough to even touch a pot of chili, let alone a huge pot of chili. It might just be your nose. Ask someone else to try it. Your senses could just be overloaded from chopping the garlic up in the first place.

Sorry but there is no other way but to make a new pot.

Remove half of chili from pot and store in a freezer container for next time chili; then take the remaining half left in your pot and add 2 cans of red kidney beans, 1 can tomato sauce and 1 tablespoon sugar! This should ease the garlic and allow for another quick meal for another day!

I hope this helps for chili the way it does spaghetti sauce, but if it’s bitter add butter is the moto I’ve always gone by. You can try adding some parmessean cheese or a little bit of onion for a special touch. If you were talking about spaghetti sauce I could really help. Good luck with your chili!!

Well Halloween is coming you can use it to keep the vampires away.. Sorry my boss said that to me when I told her your opps.. Well either make more chili or throw it out…

since it’s chili, add more peppers. you’ll forget all about the garlic. or a tablespoon of sugar usually mellows it out for me.

Emeril would be proud of you!. There is never such a thing as too much garlic!

Add a pinch or 2 of baking soda. It neutralizes the extra garlicy flavor

Help! I messed up a huge pot of chili with too much garlic. How can I fix it?

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