Burnt flavor moves quickly through a pot of soup.
Especially satisfying on cool days, soup is an easy and versatile dish. However, leave soup unattended on the stove and disaster can strike. Since soup has a liquid base, burnt flavor moves quickly throughout the entire dish. Unlike meat or vegetables, where you can easily remove the burnt section, your entire soup can take on the burnt taste. Fortunately, there are remedies you can use to try and remove the burnt flavor before starting the soup again from scratch.
Instructions
1. Turn off the heat and stop stirring immediately. Stirring spreads burnt particles as well as the burnt flavor throughout the soup.
2. Fill a sink with enough cold water to cover 1/3 of your soup pot; put your pot in the cold water. You want to cool your soup quickly and stop more burning from occurring. Be careful not to splash any water into the pot.
3. Ladle 1/3 of your soup into a clean pot. Ladle from the top, as the soup near the bottom will have more of a burnt flavor. Avoid the burnt bottom of the pot. Taste the remaining soup in your original pot; if there is only a mildly burnt flavor, ladle more into the new pot. Discard the rest of the old soup.
4. Stir 1 tbsp. of creamy peanut butter into your new pot of soup. Taste to see if the burnt flavor is gone. If not, add another tbsp. of peanut butter. Slowly heat the soup to help the peanut butter mix with your soup. If the burnt flavor remains, add spices such as curry powder, garlic, mustard, chutney or smoke flavoring to mask the taste. Sprinkle cinnamon into your soup if it is beef- or pork-based.
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