Subsitute Wine in cooking with....?!
Subsitute Wine in cooking with....?
I don't drink and do not want to buy wine just for a recipe.
What can I use instead if it ask for White wine or Dry Sherry?
Answers:
This is a list of acceptable wine substitutions in recipes. Choose one that you think will compliment the dish you are preparing:
Port Wine - Concord grape juice with some lime zest added, cranberry juice with some lemon juice added, or grape juice concentrate. Substitute orange juice or apple juice for lighter ports
Red Wine - Red grape juice, cranberry juice, chicken broth, beef broth, vegetable broth, clam juice, fruit juices, flavored vinegar. (Substitute equal amount of liquid.)
White Wine - Water, chicken broth, vegetable broth, white grape juice, ginger ale, white grape juice.
Sweet White Wine - White grape juice plus 1 tablespoons Karo corn syrup. (Substitute equal amount of liquid.)
Chicken broth will usually do in a pinch.
They do sell cooking sherry (usually near the vinegars in your local grocery store) that is just for using in recipes. It isn't even remotely tasty for drinking.
any flavored broth or they even make non alcoholic wines now used for cooking.
It doesn't matter if you drink or not, because once you cook or saute with the wine, the alcoholic content disappears. Usually, if a recipe calls for wine, it's for the taste or flavor, not for the "euphoric" contentYou can always buy a small bottle, or buy a regular size bottle and save the remainder for the next time you cook a recipe that calls for wine.
Good luck - and good eating!
i'd go with becker's answer, that sounds about right.
Use a sherry wine vinegar...got the flavor, but not the alcohol enjoy...& they red & white wine vinegars too.
You'll find many calls for white wine in recipes, so simply buy a bottle of sherry, dry sherry and dry vermouth. Won't break the bank and they will be in your ingredient inventory, for your next meal. Like others stated, the alcohol gets burned off and your left with the flavor of the wine in you food. Do not buy "cooking wine" in your grocery store they are inferior and laden with salt!. I know you stated that you don't drink wine, but the general rule is if you can drink it and like the flavor you can cook with it. In your case you may want to have someone taste it and see how they like it. However, be careful, certain wines have a higher sugar level and you wouldn't want to cook with them in certain recipes or use them as a substitute for a dry wine...ex. Sauternes is a white wine but very sweet, it cannot be used in place of a Chardonnay or dry sherry...Good luck and hope I could help out, once you start to use wine in your cooking and begin to experiment with reductions you'll enter a whole new world...have fun.