How to get rid of a
Bitter Taste In Food
How to Reduce Bitterness in Food
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hi everybody this is Judy I'm Judy in
the kitchen you have a food that is too
bitter and you want to try to find a way
to get some of that bitterness out I
have some suggestions for you first of
all you could chill it make it really
really cold if it's a vegetable that you
want to eat raw and yet it's too bitter
for your taste buds all you need to do
is cut it up into some very tiny
bite-size pieces or very thin slices put
it in some very cold water and allow it
to chill well for anywhere from thirty
minutes to several hours obviously if
it's going to be several hours you want
to put it in the refrigerator and get it
really really cold and then go ahead and
enjoy it ice cold and roll and that
should help to dissipate that bitterness
for you another option would be to heat
it up now the heating of food can also
help to take out the bitterness of it
you can try searing something roasting
it or braising vegetables to help reduce
the bitterness and if you don't want to
overcook a vegetable you could try just
blanching it very briefly in some
boiling water take it out and then serve
it as you would like to serve it another
way to take the bitterness out of the
food would be to add a little bit of
sweetener for example when you're making
a tomato sauce if you add just a little
bit of sugar or a little bit of a
sweetener of some sort of to that tomato
sauce it will help to reduce the
bitterness that naturally comes with a
concentrated tomato product and by that
I mean particularly tomato paste that
can be on the bitter side and so if you
if you're using tomato paste add just a
little bit of sweetener and that will
help to cut that bitterness that's in
there another thing that you can do to
reduce bitterness is to add some acid
that
say common chefs tactic that's used to
help reduce bitterness and food
especially leafy green vegetables and
maybe other vegetables as well if you
notice at the end of cooking time they
might add a little bit of fresh lemon
juice to something or maybe a sprinkle
of vinegar it does not have to be a lot
of lemon juice or nor a lot of vinegar
you don't want to make it so that when
you go to in it you're going to be
puckering and tasting all that vinegar
or tasting lemon juice you just want
enough to brighten the flavor and cut
the bitterness and that will help
now if vinegar and lemon juice doesn't
work well for you a little red wine will
do the trick as well how about adding a
little bit of salt to your dish a little
salt actually balances out the
bitterness and it's sometimes even
better than added sugar so if you've
ever seen anybody actually put a little
bit of salt on a grapefruit that's why
the salt helps to cut the bitterness in
the grapefruit how about adding a little
bit of fat fat could be in the form of
butter or oil ghee cheese cream a nut
butter or some other type of fat coconut
oil something like that fat actually
tends to dull the taste buds to some
degree and it can help to mask a bitter
flavor in a food why do you think a lot
of people like to add cream to their
coffee it not only adds a creaminess and
richness to it but it also helps to cut
the bitterness that's in the coffee so
try adding a little fat or creamy
something to your addition that might
cut the bitterness you can also try
mixing a bitter food with a not so
bitter food to help balance out the
flavors that's in there for instance if
you have a raw salad and you want to
include some baby greens
there are some mature brains like kale
into your salad well raw kale can be
bitter so if you don't make your salad
with all raw kale but mix it up with
other greens that are not so bitter then
that will help to balance it out and
you'll not taste that bitterness quite
as much another thing that you can do to
help reduce bitterness and food is to
add a little bit of baking soda now I'm
talking just a pinch and you can do that
with something sour and also with
something bitter
for example brewed tea can sometimes be
bitter and if you find it it is I'm just
a pinch of baking soda to it and that
will pull the bitterness right out of
that that's something I learned years
ago from my family consumer sciences
teacher let's say you've added too much
lemon juice too much vinegar to try and
pull the bitterness out and now it's on
the sour side and you don't like it add
some baking soda to that now I'm talking
just a little bit and now and especially
if something is very acidic and you're
adding baking soda it could cause it to
bowl up so you want to be real careful
about that just a very small amount
stirring and allow those bubbles to
dissipate and then give it a taste and
it should be better for you well I do
hope this helps you out let me know if
you have any other tricks up your sleeve
on how to get bitterness out of the food
I hope this helps this is Judy I do tea
in the kitchen bye for now
